CYBER WARS

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General Dynamics gets $170 million cybersecurity order
Feb 16, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has awarded General Dynamics a $170 million contract to perform various cybersecurity services. Under the five-year contrac...
Yahoo notifies users of sophisticated breach methods
Feb 15, 2017 (AFP)
Yahoo said Wednesday it was notifying some users that hackers may have been able to use a maneuver to break into their accounts without stealing passwords. The ...
Senators launch query on Trump's smartphone security
Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)
Two US senators have requested details on President Donald Trump's smartphone security, saying he could jeopardize national secrets if he is still using his old...
Raytheon, Utilidata to provide cybersecurity for power utilities
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
Raytheon is collaborating with Utilidata to deliver defense-grade cybersecurity capabilities to power utilities. In a statement announcing the partnership, Rayt...
Japan taps Elbit subsidiary for cybersecurity training help
Feb 07, 2017 (UPI)
Israel's Cyberbit Ltd. is helping launch a cybersecurity training and simulator facility in Japan under a contract from Ni Cybersecurity Inc. Ni Cybersecurity, ...
Protecting quantum computing networks against hacking threats
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
As we saw during the 2016 US election, protecting traditional computer systems, which use zeros and ones, from hackers is not a perfect science. Now consider th...
Norway accuses Russia of cyberattack
Feb 03, 2017 (AFP)
Norway's foreign ministry, army and other institutions were targeted in a recent cyberattack by a group suspected of ties to Russian authorities, Norwegian inte...
UK minister accuses Russia of 'weaponising misinformation'
Feb 02, 2017 (AFP)
UK Defence minister Michael Fallon on Thursday accused Russia of "weaponising misinformation", in a stark warning on cyber warfare in which he also took aim at ...
Americans distrustful after hacking epidemic: survey
Jan 26, 2017 (AFP)
Nearly two-thirds of Americans have experienced some kind of data theft or fraud, leaving many mistrustful of institutions charged with safeguarding their infor...
Big Brother will have some difficulty 'watching you' in future
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Nature Physics thas published online the research by a team led by physicists from the School of Physics at Wits University. In their paper titled: Characterisi...
China cracks down on bids to bypass online censorship
Jan 23, 2017 (AFP)
China has announced a 14-month campaign to "clean up" internet service providers and crack down on devices such as virtual private networks (VPNs) used to evade...
SEC probing Yahoo over cyberattacks: media
Jan 23, 2017 (AFP)
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into whether Yahoo should have informed investors sooner about two major data breaches, th...
India turns to AI as cyber warfare threats grow
Jan 22, 2017 (AFP)
In the darkened offices of a tech start-up, a handful of computer engineers sifts through a mountain of intelligence data that would normally be the work of a s...
NATO sees sharp rise in state-backed cyber attacks: Stoltenberg
Jan 19, 2017 (AFP)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said the alliance is coming under an increasing number of state-sponsored cyber attacks as he called on the bloc to boos...
Obama commutes sentence of WikiLeaker Manning
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday slashed the sentence of transgender army private Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to 35 years behind bars for handin...
Assange says would go to US only if rights guaranteed: WikiLeaks
Jan 18, 2017 (AFP)
WikiLeaks said Wednesday its founder Julian Assange could travel to the US to face investigation after one of the site's main sources was given clemency -- but ...
App stores must register with state: China
Jan 17, 2017 (AFP)
App stores in China must register with the state from Monday, a government statement said, as China tightens its control over the internet. App stores are "not ...
New Facebook project aims to fight the spread of 'fake news'
Jan 11, 2017 (AFP)
Facebook announced Wednesday the creation of a Journalism Project aimed at fostering "a healthy news ecosystem" and curbing the spread of fake news. The move co...
London-based Italians arrested for cyber-spying on top politicians
Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)
Italian police on Tuesday announced the arrest of a London-resident nuclear engineer and his sister on suspicion of running a cyber snooping operation targeting...
EU proposes greater privacy protection to boost digital economy
Jan 10, 2017 (AFP)
The EU proposed Tuesday broadening privacy protections in electronic communications, including tracking by advertisers, in a bid to promote a digital single mar...
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