Federal Agency Data Under Siege
The US government continues to grapple with the same cybersecurity challenges faced by most organizations, but it has a different set of …
The US government continues to grapple with the same cybersecurity challenges faced by most organizations, but it has a different set of …
The Sofacy group, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, has carried out an attack on an unnamed European government agency using an updated …
A years ago when the mysterious hacking group ‘The Shadow Brokers’ dumped a massive trove of sensitive data stolen from the US intelligence …
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is in the process of helping the government move towards a more 21st Century approach to service …
Information provided by the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD) helped US intelligence officials attribute …
“My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,” says Luis Elizondo, the ex-Pentagon official …
What does the title National Protection and Programs Directorate mean to you? It’s not so clear, unless you are familiar with the …
An Iranian hacking group named “Charming Kitten” is reportedly using the fake media site “The British News …
PepsiCo denied accusations by a branch of the Russian government that the U.S. beverage company may have stolen a secret document from the …
FBI vs. Apple, round …
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) intel agency has released the source code for one of its malware analysis tools …
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, has made a malware scanning and analytics …
A major American credit reporting agency entrusted to safeguard personal financial information said Thursday hackers looted its system in a colossal breach that could affect nearly half the US population…
Neither the FBI/DHS nor the NCSC names the attackers. The NSCS clearly has suspects since it recognizes the infrastructure used. Read full news article on SecurityWeek
US tech firms quietly campaigned the US government to create exceptions for a sanction prohibiting business relationships with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Reuters reports. The ban, a response to…
In this special guest feature, Gavin Robertson, CTO and SVP of WhamTech, discusses the future technology of data federation and protection within federal agencies. These new technologies could have a…
The National Security Agency (NSA) — the United States intelligence agency which is known for its secrecy and working in the dark — has finally joined GitHub and launched an…
According to a report from The Washington Post, the NSA has linked the North Korean government to the creation of the WannaCry ransomeware that resulted in affecting over 300,000 people…
In addition, the hacked Twitter account contained a false story in Arabic apparently from the country’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, about Qatar withdrawing its ambassadors from several nearby…
The “false statement” was reported by broadcasters in the United Arab Emirates and caused a stir on social media in the Gulf, before Doha scrambled to deny the claims. Read…
The APT3 hacker group that has been active since at least 2010 and is believed to have stolen intellectual property and confidential data from numerous Western government and military targets…
Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith addresses the RSA 2017 Conference in San Francisco on Feb. 14. Read full story on bankinfosecurity.com