CYBER WARS

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Hacking the election: security flaws need fixing, researchers say
Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)
A report with detailed findings from a July hacker conference which demonstrated how voting machines could be manipulated concluded that numerous vulnerabilitie...
Aircraft cyber-defense capabilities on BAE drawing board
Oct 10, 2017 (UPI)
The capabilities will include automated vulnerability assessment, sub-system hardening, and malicious system behavior identification. "We understand how the thr...
Engility to help protect DOD technology networks
Oct 10, 2017 (UPI)
Engility Holdings said the contract to support the Pentagon's Damage Assessment Management Office and Joint Acquisition Protection and Exploitation Cell is wort...
Facebook 'context' button is latest effort to fight fake news
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
The new feature will allow users to get context on the source of a news article with a single click without leaving Facebook and its news feed. "We are testing ...
US reviewing better tech identifiers after hacks: Trump aide
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
Rob Joyce, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, told a forum at the Washington Post that officials were studying ways to use "modern cryptographic identif...
Equifax raises breach victim number to 145.5 million
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Interim chief executive Paulino do Rego Barros, made the disclosure in a statement, saying, "Our priorities are transparency and improving support for consumers...
Twitter reveals Russia-backed ads ahead of US election
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
A Twitter statement said the social media company shared data with congressional investigators about ads from RT, a television group with links to the Moscow go...
Ransomware attacks 'global epidemic', says Europol
Sep 27, 2017 (AFP)
"Ransomware attacks have eclipsed most other global cybercrime threats, with the first half of 2017 witnessing ransomware attacks on a scale previously unseen,"...
Equifax CEO steps down in wake of massive hack
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
The company tapped longtime Equifax executive Paulino do Rego Barros as interim chief executive while it undertakes a search for a new leader following the mass...
China disrupts WhatsApp ahead of Communist Party meeting
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Users in China have reported widespread disruptions in recent days to the Facebook-owned service, which previously malfunctioned in the country over the summer....
China fines tech firms over online content
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
Three web giants operating popular social media services have received "maximum penalties" for allowing the publication of pornographic, violent and other sorts...
Chelsea Manning barred from entering Canada
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Manning wrote on Twitter that "i guess canada has permanently banned me," posting an image of a document that described why she was denied entry. The document s...
Hack of US regulator a blow to confidence in financial system
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
The stock market regulator said late Wednesday a software vulnerability allowed hackers to gain "nonpublic" information that could have enabled them to make pro...
Saudi Arabia to unblock internet calling apps
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
Voice and video calling apps such as WhatsApp and Skype will be "widely available to users", a government statement said Tuesday, in a move aimed at improving b...
Israeli firms seek hi-tech help -- in Gaza
Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)
It was 2015, only a year after Israel fought a brutal war with Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas, leaving 2,251 Palestinians killed and 74 dead on the Israeli side. ...
US watchdog confirms probe of huge Equifax data breach
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
The Federal Trade Commission joins US congressional committees promising to probe the causes and implications of what could be the worst breach of personal info...
Massive bureau hack raises troubling questions
Sep 08, 2017 (AFP)
The hack disclosed this week at Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus which collect consumer financial data, potentially affects 143 million US custome...
EU defence ministers put to test in mock cyberattack
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
This was the scenario facing a gathering of EU defence ministers in Tallinn on Thursday as they undertook a exercise simulating a cyber assault on the bloc -- t...
Israel Aerospace develops signals intelligence center
Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)
The center, developed by subsidiary Elta Systems, integrates and fuses all the country's SIGINT sensors at a strategic level by utilizing big data and high-thro...
High-dimensional quantum encryption performed in real-world city conditions for first time
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Quantum encryption uses photons to encode information in the form of quantum bits. In its simplest form, known as 2D encryption, each photon encodes one bit: ei...
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