Biden executive order protects personal data

Biden executive order protects personal data

President Joseph Biden has issued an executive order intended to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation from countries of concern including China, Russa, Iran, and North Korea.Issued February 28, the order authorizes the attorney general to...
Biden executive order protects personal data

GitHub rolls out push protection on public repos

GitHub has begun rolling out push protection for all of its users, a secrets scanning feature that gives users the option to remove secrets from commits or bypass a block.The policy, announced February 29, affects supported secrets. It might take one to two weeks for...
Biden executive order protects personal data

Why passkeys will replace passwords

With the growth of sophisticated attacks against critical software and infrastructure systems, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has emerged as a critical layer of defense against unauthorized access. An increasing number of enterprise and developer-facing technology...
Biden executive order protects personal data

White House urges developers to dump C and C++

US President Joe Biden’s administration wants software developers to use memory-safe programming languages and ditch vulnerable ones like C and C++.The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in a report released Monday, called on developers to...