FireEye has released details on a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting the Ukrainian government. Threat actors are impersonating a defense contractor from the UK in spear phishing emails …
Russia’s parliament votes to unplug internet from world
The Russian parliament on Tuesday officially approved a government plan to test the independence of the country’s internet, known as Runet, by disconnecting it from the global Internet. The plan will …
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Google’s location history data shared routinely with police
An investigation by The New York Times reveals that Google regularly shares location data of users with US law enforcement, and that requests for this data have surged in the last six …
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Bad security hygiene still a major risk for enterprise IT networks
A new report[pdf] by Ixia analyses the 2018 cyber threat landscape. According to the report the 5 main security issues last year were: Most product vulnerabilities were the result of software …
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Kaspersky: 70 percent of attacks now target Office vulnerabilities
New Kaspersky Lab research shows that threat actors are increasingly trying to take advantage of security flaws in Microsoft Office products. In the last quarter of 2018, attackers went after Office …
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Ecuador says hit by 40 million cyber attacks since Assange arrest
Websites of Ecuadorian government agencies and services have been targeted in 40 million cyberattacks since last week, when the country terminated Julian Assange's political asylum and subsequently …
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As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned A Blind Eye
According to an investigation by NPR and the PBS TV-show Frontline, US companies quietly allowed cyber espionage and theft by Chinese state-backed hackers for two decades because their feared "strong …
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Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
Threat actors have hacked into three websites of the FBI National Academy Association (FBINAA), downloaded the contents and subsequently published about 4,000 records containing personal data on …
Gov’t warns on VPN security bug in Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Pulse software
VPN applications offered by Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pusle are putting users at risk by failing to securely store session cookies, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and …
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Major coordinated disinformation campaign hit the Lithuanian Defense
On 10 April, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry and its minister Raimundas Karoblis were the target of a major disinformation campaign that aimed at "discrediting not only the minister as a politician …
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