Cyber Attacks on Energy Sector: Are There Reasons to Worry?
Cybersecurity remains one of the burning issues in 2018 with the average price of cybersecurity attack on business accounting to $2.4 million. For a regular user getting a basic antivirus protection would be enough. More...
White House issues ‘National Cyber Stategy’ vowing to maintain ‘Internet freedom’
Today, the White House released its 2018 National Cyber Strategy, outlining the steps the federal government is taking to advance an open, secure, interoperable, and reliable cyberspace. Given the interconnected More...
Obama’s CIA head John Brennan calls Trump ‘treasonous’ after Putin summit, Chuck Hagel says there was no strategy
Former CIA Director John Brennan tweeted about President Trump’s news conference, saying it “was nothing short of treasonous.” “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki More...
Former CIA director John Brennan says President Obama refused to counter cyber warfare from Russia
According to former CIA director John Brennan under President Obama, the administration refused to counter the cyber warfare attacks from Russia, never wanting to go on the offensive and retaliate against Moscow. Speaking More...
DHS confirms that criminal, ‘foreign actor’ ‘eavesdropping devices’ found in DC, tracking cell phone activity
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has acknowledged that foreign actors and/or criminals are using eavesdropping devices to track cellphone activity in Washington, D.C., according to a letter obtained by More...
FBI’s James Comey: Americans shouldn’t have ‘expectations of absolute privacy’
FBI Director James Comey warned Wednesday that Americans should not have expectations of “absolute privacy,” adding that he planned to finish his term leading the FBI. “There is no such thing as More...
Wikileaks releases CIA ‘Umbrage’ documents confirming stolen Russian malware, makes hacking look like Moscow did it
The CIA’s Remote Devices Branch‘s UMBRAGE groupcollects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques ‘stolen’ from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation. With More...
7 Cyber Insurance Companies Who Get Stuff Done
The cyber insurance marketplace barely existed ten years ago, but is now expected to exceed $14 billion by 2022. The following seven companies currently account for the bulk of the growth in this industry and are More...
Manual Penetration Testing A Vital Component of Intelligent App Development
It is a common misconception that because of the prevalence of automated security testing, a manual penetration test will not be necessary for the development of any given app. However, this is not the case. Even More...
President Obama Proposes New Laws for Data Hacking Disclosure
Corporations are notorious for holding on to information they believe could be potentially threatening to their sales and reputations. This is especially prevalent when the corporation has become a victim of cyber-crime, More...
Retired Marine Gen James ‘Hoss’ Cartwright being investigated by DOJ as ‘leaker’ of classified information
Retired Marine Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright became the target of US Justice Department’s criminal investigation into a leak of classified information, NBC News reported on Friday. NBC reported citing More...
AP twitter hoax, hacking, blamed for Wall Street drop as FBI begins investigation
Hackers took control of the Associated Press Twitter account on Tuesday and sent a false tweet of two explosions in the White House that briefly shook US financial markets. Anonymous hackers may be behind the AP More...
Cybersecurity bill passes House and heads to Senate with White House threatening veto, protects companies from lawsuits
Fighting hackers and cyberattacks will allegedly get easy for companies with the legislation which was voted through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates More...
Obama administration set for pre-emptive cyber strikes, similar to drone program
The US could launch pre-emptive cyber strikes against countries it suspects of threatening its interests with a digital attack, under a new set of secret guidelines to safeguard the nation’s computer systems. photo More...
China linked to White House cyber attack
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense More...
