Imagine a life threatening situation in a large urban center, and you need to call 911 fast. You dial, wait… and nothing. This may have happened to 911 callers in Baltimore when a ransomware attack recently crippled emergency call operations. The city had...
According to a survey conducted by the IHS Markit Video Surveillance Group, some 98 million network surveillance cameras were shipped in 2017 along with almost 30 million HD CCTV (high-definition closed-circuit television) cameras. These impressive...
The Facebook - Cambridge Analytica fiasco may have grabbed headlines, but in reality this is but one example of the data misuse and data privacy issues that are currently impacting nearly every industry sector. Consider for a moment, the potential impact...
Fortunately, Silent Circle has been GDPR compliant from the start. Call it luck, good fortune or great insight, since our inception six years ago, Silent Circle has led the privacy crusade with our Silent Phone application. What is GDPR? The General Data...
Silent Circle was named a 2018 InfoSec winner in the category of Most Innovative Wireless, Mobile or Portable Device Security. Silent Circle was selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 companies which was initially narrowed down to 500 finalists. The winning...
As originally reported in ZDNet, in a letter to United States Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), DHS official Christopher Krebs acknowledged that the DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) "has observed anomalous activity in the National...
