The White House, lawmakers said yesterday, wants to renegotiate the divisive U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement rules as they relate to intrusion software. A draft of the rules was pulled off the table in July by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) following a 90-comment period during which advocates in the...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the ongoing FBiOS battle, a judge’s confirmation that the DoD funded research to uncloak Tor users, and news surrounding Operation Blockbuster. They also preview next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, Calif. Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/digitalunderground/Threatpost_News_Wrap_February_26_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

This Threatpost op-ed is part of a series of guest contributions from computer security research and policy experts. Today, we feature Kaspersky Lab’s Kurt Baumgartner.  Boulder, Colorado’s Open Space and Mountain Parks winter photo gallery displays parts of the beautiful and productive 45,000-plus “open space” acres that buffer the city from sprawling development. At the same...

It took Apple nine words to make its point: “This is not a case about one isolated iPhone.” Apple on Thursday filed a motion to vacate a court order mandating it assist the FBI in unlocking an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter. Apple said the order violates its First Amendment rights—software code is...

Apple, like most advanced tech companies, understands threats and how to close them off. But one salient point that’s emerged from its ongoing dispute with the FBI over unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s phone is that Apple is a threat to itself. Therefore, expect any future iPhone security updates to take into account that Apple...

A U.S. district court judge has confirmed what has probably been the worst-kept secret in security, that Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute was indeed contracted by the Department of Defense to study how to break Tor anonymity. A motion to compel discovery filed by Brian Farrell, a defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs...

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s major argument in objecting to the FBI’s request to assist in unlocking San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c is the precedent it would set in doing so. As it turns out, Cook had a leg to stand on when he defiantly objected to a federal magistrate’s order last week. Apple...

Child safety firm uKnowKids is blasting a security researcher who discovered the company exposed 1,700 identities of the children they were supposed to be protecting. On Monday, security researcher Chris Vickery alerted uKnowKids, a company that helps parents keep tabs on their kid’s online activities, that one of its databases containing sensitive company information and...

Apple removed an iOS application from its Chinese iTunes App Store that allowed users of non-jailbroken iOS devices to install pirated and jailbroken apps. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks, who discovered the rogue application, said the app was not malicious, but presented a serious security risk if developers behind the application used the crack in...

A 400 percent surge in tax-related phishing and malware incidents is making this tax season the most treacherous yet for taxpayers. According to an Internal Revenue Service bulletin, this year’s attacks include the tried-and-true email phishing, but also newer forms of attacks that include bogus text messages and attempts to trick people into handing over...