Russia faces new scrutiny for its cyber espionage efforts after the United States, Britain and Canada alleged Thursday that a Kremlin-linked piracy group is trying to steal research related to the development and testing of the coronavirus vaccine. The group of hackers known as APT29 or “Cozy Bear” is believed …
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“ ‘A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to the privacy and data security of all its users. … Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account? “ – Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri The above lines came Wednesday from Republican Sen. …
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The most telling element of the video, says Wikoff, is the speed the hacker demonstrates in filtering account information in real time. Google account data is stolen in about four minutes. The Yahoo account takes less than three minutes. In both cases, of course, a live account populated with tens …
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TOPLINE The Central Intelligence Agency conducted offensive cyber operations against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Russian intelligence agency FSB, and other targets after President Donald Trump issued a secret order in 2018 that gives the agency extensive power to take such actions, Yahoo News reported, citing former US officials …
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From WannaCry and NotPetya hit the Internet just over three years ago, the security industry has analyzed every new Windows bug that could be used to create a similar worm that shakes the world. Now, a potentially “problematic” vulnerability, which means an attack can spread from one machine to another …
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