"The cybersecurity industry is currently enamored with concepts of autonomous defense, including elements of machine learning, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence—and rightly so. …
U.S. shares election-hacking intel with Europe
"The U.S. intelligence community is working with governments across Europe to ensure they don’t fall victim to the same digital meddling campaign that rattled the American presidential …
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Ransomware Causes Dallas Police to Lose 8 Years of Evidence
"A police station in Dallas lost digital evidence, such as videos and photos, when it cleaned up from a ransomware attack after deciding not to pay. The Cockrell Hill Police Department’s servers were …
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Anonymous Knocks 10,000 Dark Web Sites Offline, Exposes User Data
"An Anonymous-linked hacker group publicly exposed the database of dark web hosting service Freedom Hosting II after it knocked offline about one-fifth of the dark web. The group, which identified …
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A Russian Slot Machine Hack Is Costing Casinos Big Time
"The economic realities of the gaming industry seem to guarantee that the St. Petersburg organization will continue to flourish. The machines have no easy technical fix. As Hoke notes, Aristocrat, …
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Wanted: Cyber Experts for U.K. Boardrooms
"Only 5 percent of large U.K. companies say their boards include directors with expertise in information technology or cyber security, even though the vast majority identify hacking and other digital …
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Google Paid Hackers $3M For Finding Security Flaws Last Year
"It's not easy to keep complex software free of security bugs. That's why a number of companies have set up bug bounty programs to reward independent hackers for helping out. Google's one of those …
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Anonymous hackers shut down the largest host of dark web sites
"Freedom Hosting II, the largest host of dark web sites has reportedly been hacked and taken down by a group of hackers allegedly associated with Anonymous. The hackers breached Freedom Hosting II's …
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Experts debate effects of government cybersecurity executive order
"At its core, the most basic way to measure your effectiveness is to measure the date of vulnerability detection to the date of mitigation. If that number is moving to the right, you are losing the …
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Ransomware completely shuts down Ohio town government
"In another interesting example of what happens when you don’t manage your backups correctly, the Licking County government offices, including the police force, have been shut down by ransomware. …
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