Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to have authorised attempts to influence last year’s US election in favour of former President Donald Trump, intelligence officials say. Moscow spread “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” about the eventual winner, Joe Biden, according to a US government report. But it said no foreign government had compromised the final results. […]
The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States — and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them — are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyberthreats. Both hacks exploited […]
What is Article III standing? In legal parlance, ‘standing’ is the legal right for an individual to bring a claim in court. ‘Article III standing’ refers to the Case or Controversy Clause of the US Constitution (located in Article III, Section 2, Clause 1), which is the basis for many important court decisions addressing standing. […]
Telecommunications giant Vodafone is calling for the introduction of new cybersecurity policies to help small businesses in the UK recover from the impact of the global health pandemic. In a statement released today, the company asked Boris Johnson’s government to protect small and medium-sized businesses by providing more support to the National Cyber Security Centre and making cybersecurity protections […]
Cybersecurity experts briefed government investigators that at least 30,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers have been breached using a chain of vulnerabilities Microsoft patched on Tuesday. The reports, published by independent reporter Brian Krebs and later by Wired’s Andy Greenberg, would confirm a trend SC Media reported earlier in the week, that security investigators were finding substantially […]
Microsoft has blamed a Chinese cyber-espionage group for attacks on its mail server software. The tech giant said the hackers belonged to a state-backed group, which was a “highly skilled and sophisticated actor”. In a blog post, Microsoft said the hacking campaign made use of four previously undetected vulnerabilities in different versions of the software. […]
Audio-only social network Clubhouse has confirmed that a user managed to stream content from the app on their website. The app allows users to participate in public or private audio chatrooms, promising that the content has to be experienced live and is not recorded. US cyber-security researchers said a user found a way to stream […]
In many ways, cybersecurity has always been a contest; vendors race to develop security products that can identify and mitigate any threats, while cybercriminals aim to develop malware and exploits capable of bypassing protections. With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), however, this combative exchange between attackers and defenders is about to become more complex […]
Infographic: The Increasing Demand for Cyber Security in the Workforce Source: Innovation At Work Read the Full Story Here
A few weeks ago, on a routine company video call, one of the tech groups decided to prank the boss and five of them turned up looking like him. “It was very spooky. They used a publicity still of me and the person in the publicity still was blinking, moving his head, smiling, talking, saying things […]