Katie Hill claims hackers used government account to accuse her of...
Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) on Wednesday claimed that hackers were responsible for a thread of tweets posted on her congressional Twitter account accusing her of abusing staff members,...
View ArticleMistakes made by Iranian hackers tied them to threatening emails targeting US...
Iranian hackers made mistakes that tied them to the emails threatening U.S. voters to vote for President Trump, Reuters reported Thursday. Four people familiar with the matter told Reuters that...
View ArticleMicrosoft warns Russian, North Korean hackers targeting groups researching...
Microsoft warned Friday that the company witnessed efforts by Russian and North Korean hacking groups to target pharmaceutical companies and coronavirus vaccine researchers.The announcement is part of...
View ArticleHackers love a bad transition
Cybersecurity was in the balance before President Trump tweeted the dismissal of Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Now it is in peril.During the...
View ArticleHackers targeting firms in vaccine supply chain, IBM warns
IBM on Thursday warned that it uncovered a “global phishing campaign” targeting the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain. The company wrote a blog post saying that the scheme was targeting the vaccine “cold...
View ArticleDHS hacked as part of massive cyberattack on federal agencies: report
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was successfully breached as part of a major attack on U.S. federal agencies by suspected Russian hackers, Reuters reported Monday.Reuters cited “people...
View ArticleMicrosoft says systems were exposed in massive SolarWinds hack
Microsoft’s systems were exposed as part of the suspected Russian cybersecurity hack that targeted SolarWinds and hit multiple government agencies, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The...
View ArticleGoogle: Hackers backed by North Korea tried to steal cyber research
Google's threat analysis team earlier this week said that it had identified a hacking effort suspected to be centered in North Korea that targeted U.S.-based cybersecurity experts.A post on the...
View ArticleKroger warns pharmacy customers' personal data may have been stolen in hack
Some Kroger pharmacy customers’ data may have been stolen after hackers accessed a vendor’s file-transfer service, the grocery store chain said Friday.While fewer than 1 percent of customers are...
View ArticleCan anyone keep hackers out? Nope, and that's not a problem
As cyber investigators continue to examine the SolarWinds attack, a more complicated picture of what actually happened has begun to emerge. The Acting Director of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and...
View ArticleNetflix to test crackdown on password sharing
Netflix said this week that it's testing a new verification process to crack down on password sharing on its streaming platform.For users who the company suspects might not be the account owner,...
View ArticleFacebook rolls out physical keys to guard against hacking mobile accounts
Facebook on Thursday announced that iOS and Android mobile device users can now utilize physical security keys to verify their accounts and guard against hackers.The new product is meant to add an...
View ArticleBiden under growing pressure to nominate cyber czar
President Biden is coming under increasing pressure from lawmakers and other officials to nominate a White House cyber czar as the government starts formulating its response to two major foreign...
View ArticleLack of cyber funds in Biden infrastructure plan raises eyebrows
President Biden's $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan does not include any funds to protect critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, even as the threat grows against targets such as the electric...
View ArticleLawmakers urge Education Department to take action to defend schools from...
Reps. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) and Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) on Friday urged the Department of Education to prioritize protecting K-12 institutions from cyberattacks, which have shot up in the past year as...
View ArticleOur cybersecurity 'industry best practices' keep allowing breaches
The fact that the Colonial Pipeline is slowly getting back online and replenishing the gas supply in the Southeastern United States does not diminish the financial loss and sense of vulnerability that...
View ArticleDespite industry best practices, there will always be security breaches
The recent article by Allen Gwinn demonstrates a gross lack of understanding of the fundamentals of cybersecurity. The title specifically refers to “industry best practices” which Gwinn defines with a...
View ArticleUyghurs targeted by fake human rights emails
Members of the Uyghur Muslim community in China and abroad are being targeted in a surveillance efforts by likely "Chinese-speaking" hackers through the use of fake emails from the United Nations...
View ArticleWhite House sends out memo to private sector on cyberattack protections
The White House has sent out recommendations to the private sector over how to protect themselves from cyber intrusions after a series of attacks left companies and government agencies vulnerable....
View ArticleRansomware 'wake-up calls': We keep sleeping through the threats
The recent ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS were called “wake-up calls” by various people in the U.S. government and industry. Supposedly, shutting down the flow of oil to the East...
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