Over the past two years, Scattered Spider has emerged as one of the most prolific and dangerous sets of hackers currently operating. The threat actors are not a well-defined group of hackers. Instead, they’re more a loose collective that uses social engineering—such as phishing and voice calls—to gain initial access …
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As the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policy ramps up, people have started to seriously consider their privacy and security when crossing into the United States. That’s especially true when it comes to searches of travelers’ phones and other devices, which US Customs and Border Protection agents have broad authority to …
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Just three months into the Trump administration’s promised crackdown on immigration to the United States, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement now has a $30 million contract with Palantir to build a “near-real time” surveillance platform called ImmigrationOS that would track information about people self-deporting (electing to leave the US). Meanwhile, the …
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