Enlarge / Rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) In an address to the nation today, President Joe Biden outlined his administration’s plans to battle the omicron variant. The federal government plans to purchase 500 million rapid COVID-19 test kits for home use, set up new testing sites, and mobilize 1, 000 […]
Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) A US federal agency has been hosting a backdoor that can provide total visibility into and complete control over the agency network, and the researchers who discovered it have been unable to engage with the administrators responsible, security firm Avast said on Thursday. Avast didn’t identify the agency other […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear that the data entrusted to these eight key agencies remains at risk,” the […]
Expand / Operation Warp Speed strikes a speed bump. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) As we are awaiting word about the consent of another vaccine to be used in the united states, glitches happen to be remarkable that the supply of their initial through the national government’s”Operation Warp Speed” Last week, the US […]
Expand (charge: Getty Images) Approximately 18,000 companies around the globe downloaded network administration tools which comprised a non invasive that spies considered to be supported by the Russian authorities could utilize to set up extra malware which stole sensitive information, the resources supplier, SolarWinds, stated on Monday. The disclosure out of Austin, Texas-based software manufacturer […]