Category: firewall

Key U.S. election systems could have been exposed online for months

Post author By Randall
Post date August 8, 2019
Categories In election interference, election security, es&s, firewall, hacking, Politics, Security, Tech, tomorrow, voting machines

[ad_1] It’s likely the case that election officials who claimed their systems weren’t online didn’t know any better. “We … discovered that at least some jurisdictions were not aware that their systems were online,” Kevin Skoglund, an independent security consultant, told Motherboard. At issue isn’t the electronic voting machines themselves, but the SFTP server and […]

Google officially closes ‘Dragonfly,’ its controversial Chinese search project

Post author By Randall
Post date July 17, 2019
Categories In business, China, Entertainment, firewall, Google, Internet, karan bhatia, Politics, project dragonfly, search engine, services, sundar pichai, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Google has been vague about Project Dragonfly ever since it first came to light. Leaked documents indicated that the China-centric search app would automatically identify websites blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall, and simply remove them from search results. This would include information on free speech and political opposition, as well as any […]