Arizona Department of Economic Security

Arizona Department of Economic Security | September 02, 2016

PHOENIX – Truckloads of frozen chicken, eggs, raisins and blueberries will come to Arizona in the fall, stocking food banks with millions of dollars’ worth of food that doesn’t usually make its way onto food bank shelves. The Department of Economic Security’s (DES) Hunger Relief Program had already agreed to accept 120 truckloads of these and other unique food items. This week, the agency was offered more than a dozen additional truckloads of the so-called “b...

Arizona Department of Economic Security | November 14, 2016

PHOENIX – The Department of Economic Security announced today the release of the Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fraud Conviction Report which reflects efforts to detect, investigate and prosecute fraud and other crimes committed by claimants against the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program. The Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fraud Conviction Report is issued quarterly and published online to provide public information on those who have been convicted of crimes against the UI B...

Huawei | January 15, 2020

The U.S. government is nearing publication of a rule that would vastly expand its powers to block shipments of foreign-made goods to China’s Huawei, as it seeks to squeeze the blacklisted telecoms company, two sources said. The U.S. Commerce Department in May placed Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. That allowed the U.S. government to restrict sales of U.S.-made goods to the company and a small number of items made abroad that cont...

oodaloop | January 14, 2020

Most weeks, it is far outside the normal job responsibilities for cybersecurity professionals to understand what the United States (or other governments) do to find or use computer vulnerabilities. Just stay patched and keep the board of directors happy. This is not one of those weeks. This week we learned that the National Security Agency disclosed to Microsoft that it had discovered a major vulnerability (dubbed CVE-2020-0601) in Windows 10. A Washington Post article, by veteran cyber journali...