Collaborate Disseminate
Mid-term misinformation is abundant these days on social media, thanks to the increasing number of trolls and bots. More than 10,000 automated accounts posing as Democrats were removed from Twitter for spreading fake news and discouraging users from vo… Continue reading 10,000 Twitter accounts deleted for discouraging voting in US mid-terms
Facebook has fallen victim to countless security breaches and November brings even more bad news for the social network. Russian hackers are selling private conversations of at least 81,000 Facebook accounts at 10 cents per account, writes the BBC. Acc… Continue reading Russian hackers compromise 120 million Facebook accounts; private messages on sale online
European high-speed railway service Eurostar reset all user account passwords after a security incident, according to the Telegraph. The rail company detected unauthorized attempts to access user accounts between October 15 and 19, and immediately sent… Continue reading Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack
Between 2010 and 2015, Chinese operatives together with hackers and company insiders working at a facility in Jiangsu, China, allegedly engaged in a major industrial cyberespionage operation targeting a US – French manufacturing company developin… Continue reading China accused of running industrial cyberespionage operation to steal US aviation and technological data
An investigation into “suspicious internet traffic” conducted by the Office of Inspector General at the US Geological Survey’s Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center satellite imaging facility in Sioux Falls, SD, reveal… Continue reading Employee used US government network for adult websites, infected infrastructure with Russian malware
This midterm election, the state of Illinois is concentrating all its efforts on voter registration security to avoid incidents similar to those in 2016 when Russian hackers used SQL injection to breach the state’s voter registration database. As… Continue reading Illinois invests $7 million in cybersecurity to prevent election hacking
Maria Butina, the Russian woman arrested on espionage charges in the US last year, was also a graduate student on a student visa. Through her work, Butina had access to a steady stream of sensitive information that she allegedly passed on to the Kremli… Continue reading Alleged Russian operative infiltrated DC circles, studied US cyber strategies
While many had hoped that along with the rise of cloud computing would come a more simple era of enterprise computing. In some ways, it has. With software as a service enterprise no longer have to contend with managing the infrastructure to suppor… Continue reading AI Helps Enterprises Conquer IT Speed and Complexity
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are extensively used in cyber defense, but what happens if they backfire and hackers use these technologies for crime? As they concentrate on the capabilities and benefits it can bring to everyday lives… Continue reading 82% of IT Execs Fear Criminals Will Soon Adopt Machine Learning to Create More Advanced Threats
An impressive number of American consumers are concerned about cybercrime and, particularly, the risks smart devices pose to the integrity of their homes. Yet they are still in the dark about how to improve security and reduce risks, a study of consume… Continue reading Lack of awareness leaves consumers vulnerable to cyberattacks, study finds