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It’s not just sitting politicians that have faced cyberattacks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Former California congressional primary candidate Dr. Hans Keirstead has reported to Rolling Stone that his campaign faced hacking attempts for roughly a year, starting in August 2017. They began with phishing emails sent to Keirstead’s address at his biomedical company […]
The President might have claimed that Russia stopped hacking the US, but intelligence officials know otherwise — and they’re stepping up their fight against the ongoing threat. Recently installed NSA and Cyber Command chief Paul Nakasone has created a dedicated task force (the Russia Small Group) to tackle online threats from Putin’s regime. While he […]
Governments around the world are taking various steps to prevent foreign elements from meddling with their elections. For some of them, it’s to prevent foreign interference yet again — the US, for instance, might use paper ballot backups that will allow officials to double check results. Australia is taking things a step further, though, and […]
Opinion: The NATO Secretary General explains how the alliance manages the dark side of the web. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1aee640105105e90d02765/master/pass/NATO-948680778.jpg
The video game market has grown to $ 116 billion worldwide, and that makes it a big target for cyber criminals. Sony felt the sting of cyberattacks in 2011 when hacktivist group Anonymous took down its PlayStation Network. That forced Sony’s CEO to apologize to all of the company’s game customers. But that was hardly […]
One of the UK’s top cybersecurity chiefs has revealed that Russian hackers are behind recent attacks on the nation’s media, telecommunications and energy sectors. Speaking at the Times Tech Summit in London, Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), said “Russian interference” had been identified numerous times over the past year. […]
Abortion providers have long faced harassment, both online and and in person. But a recent wave of cyberattacks have caused havoc lately—and proved difficult to stop. https://media.wired.com/photos/59d42f47f9bd7c75032230fb/master/pass/Abortion_Cyberhacks-01-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
(Reuters) — Wall Street’s top U.S. regulator needs to improve the way it protects its own computer networks from cyber attacks, according to a new report by a congressional watchdog office. The 27-page report by the Government Accountability Office found the Securities and Exchange Commission did not always fully encrypt sensitive information, used unsupported software, […]
(Reuters) – The chief executives of some of the worlds’ leading private companies are confident about their firms’ prospects and plan to recruit more staff, but are ill-prepared for cyberattacks, according to a report by PwC on Thursday. The “Undaunted, but underprepared?” report found 86 percent of CEOs were confident about their companies revenue prospects […]
NATO’s top European commander wants cyber-attacks to be considered a strong enough reason to trigger the alliance’s Article 5 which contains the principle of collective self-defense. General Adrian Bradshaw, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe accused Moscow of cyber and informational attacks, telling the BBC the West needs “a grand strategy” to combat Russian “hybrid […]
