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The Biden administration is taking steps to protect the country’s electric system from cyberattacks through a new 100-day initiative combining federal government agencies and the private industry.
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Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.
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Continue reading Supreme Court Asked to Give Access to Secretive Court’s Work
The sprawling hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S.
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Continue reading SolarWinds Hacking Campaign Puts Microsoft in the Hot Seat
A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
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… Continue reading How the Kremlin Provides a Safe Harbor for Ransomware
The Treasury Department on Thursday slapped six Russian technology companies with sanctions for supporting Kremlin intelligence agencies engaged in “dangerous and disruptive cyber attacks.”
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Continue reading Sanctioned Russian IT Firm Was Partner With Microsoft, IBM
The Biden administration on Thursday announced the U.S. is expelling 10 Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions against dozens of companies and people, holding the Kremlin accountable for interference in last year’s presidential election and the cyber… Continue reading US Expels Russian Diplomats, Imposes Sanctions for Hacking
[UPDATE – US Imposes New Round of Sanctions on Russia] The Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference, a senior ad… Continue reading Months After Hack, US Poised to Announce Sanctions on Russia
Ireland’s privacy regulator said Wednesday it has opened an investigation into Facebook after data on more than 500 million users was reportedly found dumped online, in a suspected violation of strict European Union privacy rules.
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Continue reading Irish Watchdog Opens Another Facebook Probe, Over Data Dump
The organization that oversees Sweden’s national sports federations was hacked by Russian military intelligence in 2017-18, officials said Tuesday, in a data-breaching campaign that also affected some of the world’s leading sporting bodies, including F… Continue reading Swedish Sports Body Hacked by Russians, Officials Say
A former Kansas utility worker has been charged with remotely tampering with a public water system’s cleaning procedures, highlighting the difficulty smaller utilities face in protecting against hackers.
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Continue reading Small Kansas Water Utility System Hacking Highlights Risks