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It’s already been a year of multiple high profile ransomware attacks and now cybersecurity startup Corelight has bagged a $9.2 million Series A round, led by Accel Partners. Read More Continue reading Corelight closes $9.2M Series A to help enterprises battle ransomware
From dating apps to scanning faces in a football crowd, the AI-driven technology is increasingly ubiquitous – but it’s not without its problems Continue reading Who’s watching? Face recognition means goodbye to hiding in crowds
Ringing in with echoes of WannaCry, Petya (or Petrwrap, NotPetya), is a new ransomware strain outbreak affecting many users around the world.
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Homeland Security official declines to reveal more to Senate hearing as details emerge of hacking attempts in Illinois and Arizona Continue reading Russia ‘targeted 21 states’ during US election campaign, says official
The hacked emails leaked last week from the campaign of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron contain phishing links pointing to domains associated with Fancy Bear, the hacking group also known as APT28 that has been linked to Russian intelligence agencies, according to the cybersecurity firm Flashpoint. “Flashpoint’s hypothesis [is] that the Macron leak was undertaken by Fancy Bear based on the contents of the dump itself, as well as the current and historic political environment in which this attack took place,” said Vitali Kremez, research director for Flashpoint. The same group was blamed for hacking Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee in 2016, and researchers have recently linked other high-profile phishing attempts to the group. “These domains were likely registered and deployed in the phishing emails in order to harvest the login credentials of Macron campaign personnel,” Kremez said. “These credentials could have provided hackers with the information needed to obtain the documents in the […]
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Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent will be opening a new AI research center in Seattle, according to The Information. The company has long had a core office in Palo Alto, but this will be its first major machine intelligence R&D effort in the country. Earlier this week Tencent announced that it would open its first data center in Silicon Valley. Yu Dong, formally of Microsoft Research,… Read More Continue reading Tencent to open AI research center in Seattle
In the current climate of claims that Russian-backed hackers may have meddled with the US election by leaking hacked documents and emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, an attack on the electric grid is likely to get a lot of interest.
Shame the… Continue reading Washington Post backtracks on frenzied reporting of Russian hack attack against power grid
As the United States kicks out 35 Russian intelligence officers after alleged election-related hacks, there are clear lessons that businesses and internet users can learn to make life harder for the attackers next time.
Continue reading Who helped Russia “hack” the US election? It might have been you…
St. Petersburg’s location on the western coast of Florida makes residents aware daily of the impacts of climate change. Continue reading This Is the First City in Florida to Commit to 100 Percent Renewable Energy
World leaders try and remain steadfast on Paris Climate Deal a Trump administration threatens to pull out. Continue reading Fiji’s Prime Minister Pleads With Trump: ‘Save Us’ From Climate Change