the cybersecurity 202: your phone could soon recognize you based on how you move or walk - touch screen history

Within 18 months, your phone may identify you based on the gait you walk, the tension in your hand, or the way your thumb moves on the touch screen.
This is the Pentagon's plan: the final phase of testing technology will reduce the reliance on difficulties for smartphone users --to-
An official told me to remember the password or a steady stream of SMS verification codes.
Steven Wallace, a system innovation scientist at the Pentagon's Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), said the company is working with computer chip manufacturers and smartphone developers to bring the technology to 2020 at the earliest.
Currently, it is testing the system on 50 phones of the Ministry of Defense.
"Our goal from the beginning is not to focus only on the Department of Defense," Wallace said . ".
"We focused on business from the very beginning.
"Technology companies have yet to make any firm commitment to adopting recognition systems, but it seems eager to integrate the technology into smartphones in the next year or two," Wallace said.
He declined to disclose the name of the company that worked with the DISA, but said that if everything goes well, the technology "will be available on most mobile phones in the United States ".
The technology will provide additional security to ensure a thief for smartphone users-
Or someone, say, pick up the phone that stays on a subway seat or park bench ---
Wallace said all personal and professional information stored in the device could not be accessed.
If stolen phones are not available, then their market will be reduced.
More broadly, national security will be improved if consumer devices are better protected: it becomes more difficult for hackers to steal information and intellectual property.
But the Pentagon's motivation is not just to protect consumers: the Pentagon can get additional protection if the tool is commercially available, instead of paying a fee for dedicated equipment used in only highly secure industries.
In the past, Wallace said, the Pentagon built Super
Secure smartphones, but deployed to anyone other than a handful of senior officials, costs too much ---
Each unit costs more than $4,500.
He said that once the technology is fully reviewed, the Ministry of Defense plans to use the technology for general-purpose smartphones rather than smartphones that access confidential information.
Wallace hopes to cut
The edge authentication system will be like the Global Positioning System and the Internet itself --
Because they are all tools originally developed for military use, but ultimately to the benefit of society as a whole.
"I won't say we're going to create something as broad and magnificent as GPS or the Internet," Wallace told me: "But there's something the department is doing that will end up on consumer devices. ".
Similar technology is being used to verify the identity of some employees in highly regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare, but it has not been commercially deployed, Dawud Gordon, CEO of TwoSense, told me, this is an independent but related DISA project.
Gordon told me that these industry tools build sensing technology into software, not the hardware of smartphones.
Wallace told me that the DISA project relies on sensors that already exist in the smartphone computer chip that are used by game apps, but not usually for security.
He said that DISA is working with contractors to use these sensors to create a unique profile for how each smartphone user does various things
It includes walking with a mobile phone, typing, and taking it out of your pocket or wallet.
He said that DISA subsequently created a "risk score" for users, including a weighted combination of all these factors.
If the score drops too low, the person will be locked out of the phone.
Wallace told me that if a person is incorrectly locked, she can regain access using a more standard login such as a password.
Just because there is this capability in the phone's hardware doesn't mean people have to use it to verify their identity, Wallace said.
Smartphone providers can offer it as an option, or organizations can use it to make sure employees don't leave unsafe devices in taxis or restaurants.
Because the sensors are on the phone's hardware, Wallace says, the information they collect will not be available to mobile apps or other third parties, reducing privacy issues.
The only information that should leave the hardware side, he said, is that when the risk score of the phone user drops too low, she is locked out.
Testing of defense equipment is expected to be completed within two months.
Three Democratic senators, including presidential candidate Amy crobcharD-Minn. )
I would like to know what the Department of Homeland Security has done to ensure the 2020 election.
In a letter, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nelson, Klobuchar and sensitivity. Gary Peters (D-Mich. )and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill. )
Seek answers to the size of the department team responsible for protecting US securityS.
Elections and the fight against foreign forces.
Christopher krebs, director of cybersecurity and infrastructure security, said this month that after the Daily Beast reported that the Department of Homeland Security narrowed those efforts, his agency "doubled" in terms of election security protection ".
Krebs said cisais is reducing the size of the task force supporting election security and combating foreign influence, but replacing these workers with permanent institutional employees.
In the letter, senators commended the work of the federal government to ensure elections, but added, "We need to further strengthen our electoral infrastructure by 2020.
"MPs also asked how many staff members the CISA plans to recruit to help protect the elections and what other initiatives the agency is taking to counter the potential threat of next year's elections.
"Intelligence officials have clearly warned that the 2020 presidential election remains the target of our opponents, and the senators said:" We must take strong action now, to make sure our system is safe on election day. ".
A two-party group of 11 senators wants the Trump administration to further crack down on China Telecom's Huawei.
Senators call on the US governmentS. ban on Huawei-
The equipment produced, known as the "Inverter", converts solar energy into the available power of other equipment.
Industry-
In a letter to the energy ministers of the Department of Homeland Security, Rick Perry and Nielsen, lawmakers said that scale inverters "and inverters used by homeowners, school districts and businesses are equally vulnerable to cyber attacks . ".
Senators also said Perry and Nielsen should work with local government officials at all levels and businesses in the energy sector to protect the country's energy systems. Sens. John Cornyn(R-Tex. ), Marco Rubio (R-Fla. )
Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (R-N. C. )
One of the Republicans who signed the letter.
Warner and Sen, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Diane van Stein (D-Calif. )
One of the Democrats who joined the two organizations.
You can see here the full list of senators who signed this letter. —
Christie McCormick was elected president of the United States. S.
The Electoral Assistance Committee, the agency announced at a press conference.
McCormick will be in this position for one year.
Internet security reporter pointed out on Twitter that McCormick had previously questioned the United StatesS.
The intelligence community's conclusions on Russia's intervention in the 2016 presidential election.
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According to annualIBM X-, finance and insurance are the favorite targets of malicious hackers in 2018.
The military threat intelligence Index released today.
Last year, the industry accounted for 19% of all attacks and incidents, followed by transport services, accounting for 13%.
"We expect the Department of Transport to continue to be an attractive target for malicious actors as the industry relies on information technology to facilitate operations and there is a general need to integrate third parties
"Party suppliers and their huge supply chain," the report said . "
"These factors have led to a bigger attack face than other industries.
The report also found that cyber criminals seem to rely less on ransomware attacks and more on password hijacking --
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Cyber attacks and concerns about data integrity ranked fifth among the top ten risks to the global economy in 2019, according to a report released yesterday by the Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist Group research unit.
"While these attacks have been relatively controlled so far, it is reported that their frequency and severity are likely to increase so that corporate and government networks may be hit or manipulated for a long time. ".
The author of the report added that security holes could jeopardize billions of dollars in daily transactions.
"If government activities are severely restricted by attacks or physical infrastructure damage, the impact on economic growth will be even more serious," the report said . ". —
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