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  • Biden's options for Russian hacking punishment: sanctions, cyber retaliation

    12/20/2020 4:52:55 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 26 replies
    Reuters ^ | By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Lawder, Daphne Psaledakis
    WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden’s team will consider several options to punish Russia for its suspected role in the unprecedented hacking of U.S. government agencies and companies once he takes office, from new financial sanctions to cyberattacks on Russian infrastructure, people familiar with the matter say. The response will need to be strong enough to impose a high economic, financial or technological cost on the perpetrators, but avoid an escalating conflict between two nuclear-armed Cold War adversaries, said one of the people familiar with Biden’s deliberations, speaking on condition of anonymity. The overarching goal of any action, which could...
  • Pompeo blames Russia for ‘significant’ cyber attack on US government agencies, companies

    12/19/2020 3:30:28 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 21 replies
    France24 ^ | December 19, 2020
    Russia was "pretty clearly" behind a devastating cyber attack on several US government agencies that also hit targets worldwide, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Microsoft said late Thursday that it had notified more than 40 customers hit by the malware, which security experts say could allow attackers unfettered network access to key government systems and electric power grids and other utilities. "There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems," Pompeo told The Mark Levin Show on Friday. "This was a very significant effort, and I think...
  • US planning to close last consulates in Russia: report

    12/19/2020 3:28:13 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 4 replies
    France24 ^ | December 19, 2020
    Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's outgoing administration is planning to close the two remaining US consulates in Russia, media reports said Friday, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office amid high tensions with Moscow. The US will close its consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok and suspend operations at its post in Yekaterinburg, CNN reported, citing a December 10 letter sent to Congress from the State Department. The move comes in "response to ongoing staffing challenges for the US Mission in Russia in the wake of the 2017 Russian-imposed personnel cap on the US Mission and the...
  • Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million

    10/29/2020 8:18:17 AM PDT · by C19fan · 30 replies
    AP ^ | October 29, 2020 | Scott Bauer
    Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday. The party noticed the suspicious activity on Oct. 22 and contacted the FBI on Friday, said Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt. Hitt said the FBI is investigating. FBI spokesman Leonard Peace did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
  • FBI, DHS say hackers have gained access to election systems

    10/15/2020 8:18:09 AM PDT · by Jan_Sobieski · 45 replies
    Fox News ^ | 14 Oct 2020 | Brooke Carothers
    Hackers, possibly nation-state actors, have penetrated U.S. government networks and accessed election systems, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a joint alert. In some cases, there was unauthorized access to election support systems, CISA added. The agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, explained there is no evidence so far that the integrity of elections data was compromised and that "it does not appear these targets are being selected because of their proximity to elections information..."
  • Fox: Live: US AG Barr to announce a cyber-related enforcement action

    02/10/2020 8:25:37 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 43 replies
    FNC ^ | 10/2/20 | Barr
    Last question at about 33:50 is about Biden and whether there is an open investigation. He responds, "I don't comment on investigations, especially not open investigations". Then he leaves.
  • 267 million - mostly American - Facebook users IDs, names and phone numbers have been exposed online in unsecured database

    12/19/2019 1:40:56 PM PST · by C19fan · 10 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | December 19, 2019 | Stacy Liberatore
    The records of hundreds of millions Facebook users was discovered in a online forum on the dark web. The unsecure database contained the IDs, phone numbers and full names of 267 million users, most of which reside in the US. Although it is not yet clear how the sensitive information was exposed, experts speculate the database was compiled through an illegal process called ‘scraping’ – automated bots copied public information from Facebook profiles. Access to the database has since been removed, however, the recorders were available online for two weeks before the leak was discovered.
  • Hawaii man stalked Utah family for months by sending plumbers, locksmiths and hundreds of [tr]

    11/30/2019 11:33:07 AM PST · by simpson96 · 33 replies
    CNN ^ | 11/28/2019 | Elliott McLaughlin
    A Hawaii man is accused of conducting an elaborate cyberstalking campaign against a Utah woman and her father by sending unwanted repairmen, food deliveries and other visitors to their home. The father estimates that between August 2018 and March more than 500 people came to their North Salt Lake home at the alleged stalker's behest, and that some of the visits stemmed from the suspect "posting the family's address on Craigslist stating that the homeowner wants drugs and prostitutes to come to the house," according to a federal motion to detain the suspect.(snip) There are few details available about the...
  • Trump approved cyber-strikes against Iran’s missile systems

    06/22/2019 5:15:43 PM PDT · by Innovative · 40 replies
    Washington Post ^ | June 22, 2019 | Ellen Nakashima
    President Trump approved an offensive cyberstrike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches, even as he backed away from a conventional military attack in response to its downing Thursday of an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone, according to people familiar with the matter. The cyberstrikes, launched Thursday night by personnel with U.S. Cyber Command, were in the works for weeks if not months, according to two of these people, who said the Pentagon proposed launching them after Iran’s alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier this month.
  • Hillary Clinton to serve as keynote speaker at cyber defense summit

    05/30/2019 4:31:22 PM PDT · by tcrlaf · 102 replies
    FOX ^ | 5-30-2019 | Sam Dorman
    Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will serve as a keynote speaker at the Cyber Defense Summit 2019, the cybersecurity company FireEye announced on Thursday. "We are pleased to announce that Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will be a featured keynote at our FireEyeSummit in October! Secretary Clinton will engage in an intimate Q&A keynote discussion," a tweet from the company read. The event is designed to inform executives on cybersecurity, as well as security practitioners on how to "mitigate, detect, and respond to cyber attacks."
  • Breaking Fox News//Chinese Hacking our Military

    03/13/2019 2:22:57 AM PDT · by a little elbow grease · 46 replies
    youtube.com ^ | 3/12/19 | FoxNews
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O14gv2uJC9s Lou Dobbs Tonight 3/12/19 Breaking Fox News March 12, 2019 David Asman from Fox Business Network was in for Lou with informative guests on China's devious and dangerous behavior.
  • 'Hacky hack hack': Australia teen breaches Apple's secure network

    08/17/2018 2:18:18 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    phys.org ^ | August 17, 2018 | Staff
    A schoolboy who "dreamed" of working for Apple hacked the firm's computer systems, Australian media has reported, although the tech giant said Friday no customer data was compromised. The Children's Court of Victoria was told the teenager broke into Apple's mainframe—a large, powerful data processing system—from his home in the suburbs of Melbourne and downloaded 90GB of secure files, The Age reported late Thursday. The boy, then aged 16, accessed the system multiple times over a year as he was a fan of Apple and had "dreamed of" working for the US firm, the newspaper said, citing his lawyer. Apple...
  • America’s Prologue To Tragedy

    07/08/2018 11:16:39 AM PDT · by Sean_Anthony · 3 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 07/08/18 | Dave Merrick
    Today, as the noose is tightening, we are sacrificing ourselves and truth for the cyber-illusion of a virtual utopia built by these new landlords Mr. Zuckerberg has now passed Warren Buffett in billions, taking over the spot for the third richest man on the planet. As Bob Dylan has said, “Money doesn’t talk - it swears.” And young Mark might be the most powerful guy on earth, even despite his wealth, simply because he runs a growing ‘nation’ that contains more people than Russia, China and the USA combined. As I have said before, to watch our Congress officially ‘interrogate’...
  • Obama’s Cyber Chief: Susan Rice Gave ‘Stand Down’ Order In Response To Russian Meddling

    06/21/2018 9:48:32 AM PDT · by detective · 23 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 06/21/2018 | Chuck Ross
    Former President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice told him to “stand down” in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Michael Daniel, whose official title was “cybersecurity coordinator,” confirmed the stand-down order during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing held to review the Obama and President Donald Trump’s administrations’ policy response to Russian election interference. Rice’s order to Daniel was first reported in “Russian Roulette,” a book published in March that details Russia’s meddling in the election. In the book, authors Michael Isikoff and David Corn reported that...
  • Amazon is showing what it's like to have a home completely controlled by Alexa

    05/10/2018 5:38:43 AM PDT · by C19fan · 25 replies
    CNBC ^ | May 9, 2018 | Todd Haselton
    Amazon wants to show you how much you can rely on its Alexa voice assistant to control everything in your home, from thermostats to TVs. The company announced Wednesday it's partnering with homebuilder Lennar to create "Amazon Experience Centers" — model homes containing built-in Alexa-controlled appliances — in hopes of persuading homeowners and homebuyers to embed Amazon services into their houses
  • Joy Reid’s Hacking Story Filled With Holes

    04/25/2018 3:03:35 PM PDT · by Gennie · 14 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 04/25/18 | Peter Hasson and Joe Simonson
    MSNBC host Joy Reid blamed hackers for placing homophobic remarks and jokes on her now-defunct blog between 2005 and 2007, but an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation and a cyber security expert raises serious doubts on the veracity of her claims. On April 19, left-wing Twitter user @Jamie_Maz resurfaced archived posts of Reid’s old blog, The Reid Report, showing her accusing prominent political figures of being gay, saying she was repulsed by the thought of sex between two gay men, and describing herself as “probably” homophobic. The posts were similar in substance to homophobic posts that Reid admitted...
  • Why WannaCry will be around for years to come

    04/13/2018 8:41:19 AM PDT · by Gennie · 6 replies
    Stronghold Cyber Security ^ | 04/13/18 | Jason McNew
    According to a recent article in the New York Times, aerospace giant Boeing was hit by WannaCry. WannaCry is particularly insidious for two reasons. First, the payload itself, known as “Eternal Blue”, was designed by none other than the NSA. Secondly, North Korea used Eternal Blue to build a worm – meaning that WannaCry can propagate itself through a network without human interaction.
  • Incoming NSA chief has a reputation for winning ‘all the important fights.’

    04/02/2018 7:38:25 AM PDT · by fightin kentuckian · 16 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 02.04/2018 | Ellen Nakashima
    The next head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command will be taking charge in the face of what intelligence officials call the greatest strategic threat to the United States: Russia’s efforts to disrupt U.S. elections. Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, who is widely expected to be confirmed this month, also will confront Russia’s aggressive targeting of the U.S. electrical grid and other critical infrastructure, and if directed would be responsible for providing the president and the defense secretary options to counter such provocations.
  • Britain 'four meals away from anarchy' if cyber attack takes out power grid

    03/17/2018 2:50:28 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 108 replies
    yahoo ^ | 03/17/2018
    The warning comes weeks after the Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said Russia had been spying on the UK’s energy infrastructure and could cause “thousands and thousands and thousands” of deaths if it crippled the power supply. America this week blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the US power grid.  Energy and security experts say a cyber attack is one of a number of so-called “black sky hazards” that have the potential to knock out power for days, weeks or even longer across large parts of a country, or even continent....
  • As America’s Nukes and Sensors Get More Connected, the Risk of Cyber Attack Is Growing

    01/18/2018 6:37:30 AM PST · by C19fan · 1 replies
    Defense One ^ | January 17, 2018 | Patrick Tucker
    Building nuclear weapons and warning systems that can be relied upon is harder than it was during the Cold War, thanks to the growing number of digital connections between various parts of the nuclear enterprise. Those links are intended to improve everything from commanders’ response times to the accuracy of missile defenses, but they also provide more avenues of attack and make it harder to know your exact level of readiness, according to new reports from U.S. Air Force advisors and a London think tank.