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Russian state oil giant Rosneft said Tuesday that its servers had suffered a “powerful” cyberattack, but insisted that production had not been hit.
“A powerful hacking attack has been carried out against the company’s servers,” Rosneft said on Twitter…. Continue reading Russian Oil Giant Rosneft Says Hit by ‘Powerful’ Cyberattack
Several government websites in the US states of Ohio and Maryland had to be shut down Sunday after being hacked to display messages supporting the Islamic State group.
Among the affected websites was one belonging to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
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Britain’s parliament shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday following a cyberattack.
Parliamentary authorities described the attack as “sustained and determined”, in an email sent to lawmakers and published by the Daily Telegraph.
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The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported Friday.
The intelligence shocked the White House and pu… Continue reading CIA Knew in August that Putin Sought to Boost Trump: Report
A wave of “computational propaganda,” largely driven by Russia, is impacting politics around the world by spreading misinformation designed to manipulate public opinion, researchers said Tuesday.
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Honda said Wednesday it had temporarily halted production at a plant in Japan after it suffered a cyberattack from the same ransomware that struck hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide last month.
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A group of prominent journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government Monday of spying on them, saying their phones had been hacked with Israeli spyware sold exclusively to the state.
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Google is stepping up its efforts to block “extremist and terrorism-related videos” over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors.
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Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency warned Friday that hackers and foreign states may try to sway its elections in 2019, after so-called hacktivists tried but failed to influence the 2015 ballot that brought Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to power.
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Israeli government spies hacked into the operations of Islamic State bombmakers to discover they were developing a laptop computer bomb to blow up a commercial aircraft, the New York Times reported Monday.
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Continue reading Israeli Intelligence Discovered IS Plans for Laptop Ban: Report