A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access ...
Windows Central

Microsoft Store drops registration fees for companies as part of onboarding overhaul

Microsoft expands last year’s fee removal to companies and adds Entra ID support to simplify onboarding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
NBC News

Tracking the DOJ's effort to get U.S. voter registration data

The Justice Department is seeking voter registration list data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia as part of what they consider to be their responsibility to “ensure that states have ...
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa voters raise privacy concerns after state shares registration data with DOJ

ARE STRUGGLING. KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX STARTS NOW. SOME CONCERN IS GROWING OVER THE ACTIONS OF IOWA’S SECRETARY OF STATE. IN A STATEMENT, SECRETARY PAUL PATE CONFIRMED HIS OFFICE REQUESTED VOTER ...
Iowa Public Radio

Iowa shares sensitive voter data with the Department of Justice

Iowa has shared its voter registration data with the U.S. Department of Justice. Iowa has shared voter registration data — including sensitive personal information — with the U.S. Department of ...
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa turns voter registration data over to federal government

STATION, SUPPORTED BY HUNDREDS OF JETS, HELICOPTERS AND DRONES. NEW AT NOON IOWANS VOTER REGISTRATION DATA IS NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. SECRETARY OF STATE PAUL PATE SAYS THE ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 100 Chrome Web Store extensions steal user accounts, data

More than 100 malicious extensions in the official Chrome Web Store are attempting to steal Google OAuth2 Bearer tokens, deploy backdoors, and carry out ad fraud. Researchers at application security ...
USA Today

Here's who is (and isn't) impacted by US military draft changes

Many men will soon be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool, according to the federal agency that oversees the system. Eligible men are already required to register with the ...
CNN

Automatic military draft registration takes effect in December. Here’s how it would work

Young, eligible men will be automatically registered for the military draft pool starting in December as part of a measure tucked into the annual defense policy bill Congress signed into law late last ...
Military Times

Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December, following efforts from lawmakers and the selective service agency to streamline the previous ...
The Hill

Government requests for social media user data up 770 percent in past decade: Research

The federal government’s requests for social media user data has dramatically spiked over the past decade, a new report found, revealing major technology platforms reported a 770 percent increase in ...