Industrial control systems (ICS) underlie a vast number of different processes, from manufacturing to energy production to public transit. As these systems become more advanced and more connected, they have become targets for bad actors seeking to disrupt processes or … Read More
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North Korea as a Cyber Threat
North Korea’s army of 6,000 hackers have been implicated in a multimillion dollar bank heist, the theft of intelligence from finance and defense firms, and the infiltration of infrastructure networks—all in the first six months of 2016. This only adds … Read More
Top Teams’ Automated Cybersecurity Systems Preparing for Final Face-off
DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge Final Event Aims to Usher In New Era of Scalable, Machine-speed Software Search and Repair The Heartbleed security bug existed in many of the world’s computer systems for nearly two-and-a-half years before it was discovered and … Read More
Google tinkers with Chrome cryptosecurity to fight quantum hacks
Today’s encryption is an arms race as digital security experts try to hold off hackers’ attempts to break open user data. But there’s a new tech on the horizon that even the NSA recognizes as crucial to protect against: quantum … Read More
Amazon’s Cloud Business Hones In On Government Market
Amazon Web Services and nearly a hundred tech vendors descended this week on Washington, D.C., hoping to seal new deals in the rapidly growing federal cloud market. The company made a name in the federal sector by securing lucrative contracts … Read More
Android’s full-disk encryption just got much weaker – here’s why
Unlike Apple’s iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques. Privacy advocates take note: Android’s full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks to new research that reveals several methods … Read More
Zero-Day Warning! Ransomware targets Microsoft Office 365 Users
If just relying on the security tools of Microsoft Office 365 can protect you from cyber attacks, you are wrong. Variants of Cerber Ransomware are now targeting MS Office 365 email users with a massive zero-day attack that has the … Read More
U.S. Cyber Command Chief on What Threats to Fear the Most
Over the past few years, cyberattacks on businesses have led to huge losses and diminished consumer confidence. But cyberattacks are also happening on the national scale as the internet becomes another arena for global conflict. To get a picture of … Read More
Senators establish cybersecurity caucus
Two U.S. senators on Tuesday announced the creation of a Cybersecurity Caucus to keep lawmakers and staffers up-to-date on cyber policy. The caucus, from Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), will focus on the issue’s impact on national … Read More
The ‘cyber jihad’ is coming, says this security firm
Islamic terrorists are arming themselves with the technical tools and expertise to attack the online systems underpinning Western companies and critical infrastructure, according to a new study from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. The goal of the report was … Read More