Collaborate Disseminate
Facebook’s parent company provides additional evidence blaming the U.S. military for a long-running influence operation.
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Quantum computing could break your encryption. It could happen within a couple of years, or it may be a decade or two away. Still, certainly, in the relatively near future, quantum computing will render traditional cryptography obsolete. It’s a … Continue reading Soon, Quantum Computing Could Break Your Encryption
It’s been widely reported that the suspected hacking team behind the massive and rapidly snowballing SolarWinds breach is linked with the Russian government. But the U.S. has not publicly named any one culprit behind the espionage operation, in which hackers concealed malware in SolarWinds network management tool updates, possibly infecting thousands of organizations across the U.S. federal government and the private sector. The National Security Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense’s foreign signals intelligence agency, on Thursday warned about an ongoing Russian state-sponsored hacking campaign that could by exacerbated by the SolarWinds breach. The NSA issued an alert warning defense contractors and Pentagon IT staff that the SolarWinds Orion compromise could be used in concert with a previously identified Russian state-sponsored hacking effort to access contractors’ data. The NSA did not claim that Russian hackers, who have been exploiting a VMWare flaw to access data, are involved in the SolarWinds […]
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