CYBER WARS

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Amid Russia hacks, US offers cyber expertise to allies
Oct 05, 2018 (AFP)
Critics have long charged that America's response has fallen woefully short as adversaries targeted US national security networks, government agencies and votin...
U.S., Montenegro conduct cybersecurity exercises
Oct 04, 2018 (UPI)
The U.S. Air Force Cyber Command and U.S. European Command have spent recent weeks working with Montenegro to conduct Cyber Defense Security Cooperation exercis...
China used tiny chips on US computers to steal secrets: report
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
The Bloomberg News report said the chips, the size of a grain of rice, were used on equipment made for Amazon, which first alerted US authorities, and Apple, an...
India plans facial recognition technology at airports
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
The scheme will be rolled out early next year in a bid to help congested airports deal with rapidly rising passenger numbers, the ministry of civil aviation sai...
UK, Australia blame Russian military for cyber attacks
Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)
They said the GRU military intelligence service could have only been conducting operations of such scale on Kremlin orders. Russian President Vladimir Putin has...
US to let NATO use its cyber defence skills
Oct 03, 2018 (AFP)
Britain and Denmark have already publicly committed cyber resources to NATO, and Washington is expected to announce that it will follow suit on Thursday at a me...
US looks to trump China's Huawei in Papua New Guinea
Sep 28, 2018 (AFP)
Responding to reports that the US and its close allies Australia and Japan were looking to trump the Chinese firm's bid to build PNG's domestic internet infrast...
US arrests Chinese national on spying charge
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
Ji Chaoqun was allegedly tasked with providing Chinese intelligence with biographical information about eight American citizens -- some of whom were US defense ...
US unveils first step toward new online privacy rules
Sep 25, 2018 (AFP)
The Commerce Department said the announcement is part of an effort to "modernize US data privacy policy for the 21st century." The move follows the implementati...
Trump weighs draft order targeting Google, Facebook: reports
Sep 23, 2018 (AFP)
Last month, Trump stepped up his attacks on big tech companies, warning them to be "careful," and slamming what he called "rigged" internet search results. The ...
US takes off the gloves in global cyber wars: top officials
Sep 20, 2018 (AFP)
National Security Advisor John Bolton said the country's "first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years" was now in effect. The new more aggressive posture...
NSA leak fuels rise in hacking for crypto mining: report
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
A report by the Cyber Threat Alliance, an association of cybersecurity firms and experts, said it detected a 459 percent increase in the past year of illicit cr...
Facebook 'better prepared' for election meddling, Zuckerberg says
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
Zuckerberg, posting on his Facebook page, outlined a series of steps the leading social network has taken to protect against misinformation and manipulation cam...
DARPA announces $2B campaign to develop next wave of AI Tech
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
Starting in the 1960s, DARPA research shaped the first wave of AI technologies, which focused on handcrafted knowledge, or rule-based systems capable of narrowl...
Army research takes proactive approach to defending computer systems
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
This collaboration grew out of efforts of ARL researchers Dr. Jin-Hee Cho (now at Virginia Tech in the Department of Computer Science), Dr. Terrence J. Moore an...
Social media should have 1 hour to remove terror propaganda: EU
Sep 12, 2018 (AFP)
If they do not, companies such as Facebook and Twitter will risk massive fines under the legislation mooted by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker...
Many conservatives fret over Trump's war on tech giants
Sep 11, 2018 (AFP)
The attacks from the White House coincide with a Justice Department announcement that it would convene talks on whether social media firms are "stifling" speech...
Georgia extradites Russian data theft suspect to US
Sep 07, 2018 (AFP)
Andrei Tyurin is accused of orchestrating major hacking crimes against US financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers, including the l...
Social networks in Congress hot seat over foreign manipulation
Sep 05, 2018 (AFP)
Dorsey, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence campaigns on social media, said the messaging service was set up to func...
Top US regulator calls for 'transparency' from tech giants
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
"We need to seriously think about whether the time has come for these companies to abide by new transparency obligations," Federal Communications Commission cha...
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