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Reprot Suggests China Hacked High-Level Officials at Federal Deposit...
"Chinese government likely hacked FDIC" - Katie Bo Williams reports in The Hill: "The Chinese government likely hacked several high-level officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...
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Average DDoS Attacks Now Large Enough to Take Most Organizations Completely...
Arbor Networks today released its Global DDoS Attack Data for the first half of 2016 affirming continued escalation in both the size and frequency of denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. — "DDoS remains a...
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US Congress Website Recovers from a Crippling 3-Day DNS Attack
A number of websites owned and operated by the United States Congress are recovering from a three-day DNS attack. Adam Mazmanian reporting in FCW: "The Library of Congress was the target of a...
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Pro-Trump Russians Accused for Democratic National Committee Email Hack, FBI...
"DNC Hack Prompts Allegations of Russian Involvement," Damian Paletta and Devlin Barrett reported in the Wall Street Journal today: "U.S. authorities said they are still investigating who perpetrated...
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U.S. Issues Cyber Incident Coordination Policy
White House has issued new directive spelling out how the Federal government will coordinate its incident response activities in the event of a large-scale cyber incident – The White House, Office of...
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FBI Withheld Warning Democratic National Committee of Suspected Russian Role...
"FBI took months to warn Democrats of suspected Russian role in hack," by Mark Hosenball and John Walcott in Washington and Joseph Menn in San Francisco reporting in Reuters: "The FBI did not tell the...
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I Didn’t Put My Name on the Census
On many occasions I have written about the dangers of electronic communications in relation to data retention laws, government e-spying and other activities undermining our democracy and our liberty....
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Australia’s First Online Census Halted Due to Multiple DDoS Attacks
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports deliberate and "malicious" attacks from offshore, designed to sabotage nation's first online 2016 Census. "Clarification on whether the government is...
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Swimming Australia Website Comes Under DDoS Attack in Wake of Allegations...
The website of Swimming Australia has come under DDoS attack just hours after the Australian Bureau of Statistics went back online following a similar attack bringing the online census initiative to a...
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Mysterious Hacker Claims to Have Hacked a Group Linked to the NSA
"Hackers Say They Hacked NSA-Linked Group, Want 1 Million Bitcoins to Share More," Lorenzo Franceschi-bicchierai reports today in Motherboard: "A mysterious hacker or hackers going by the name 'The...
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Code Released by ‘Shadow Brokers’ Raises Alarming Concerns on Whether NSA Was...
"'Shadow Brokers' Leak Raises Alarming Question: Was the N.S.A. Hacked?," David E. Sanger reporting in the New York Times: "The release on websites this week of what appears to be top-secret computer...
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Security Against Election Hacking – Part 1: Software Independence
There's been a lot of discussion of whether the November 2016 U.S. election can be hacked. Should the U.S. Government designate all the states' and counties' election computers as "critical cyber...
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Security Against Election Hacking – Part 2: Cyberoffense Is Not the Best...
State and county election officials across the country employ thousands of computers in election administration, most of them are connected (from time to time) to the internet (or exchange data...
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Massive Cyberattack Aimed at Flooding .Gov Email Inboxes With Subscription...
"Massive Email Bombs Target .Gov Addresses," Brian Krebs writes in Krebs on Security: "Over the weekend, unknown assailants launched a massive cyber attack aimed at flooding targeted dot-gov (.gov)...
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Russian Central Bank Announces Mandatory Cyber-Security Regulations for...
"Russian banks will be faced with a whole range of new regulations, and penalties for non-compliance, when it comes to cyber-security, according to the country's Central Bank," Eugene Gerden reported...
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Singapore Plans to Cut Off Internet Access for Government Agencies
"Singapore is planning to cut off web access for public servants as a defence against potential cyber attack," according to a report today in the Guardian. The policy, due to be in place by May, is...
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China Taking Steps to Show it is Responsive to Foreign Concerns on Cybersecurity
"China Sets New Tone in Drafting Cybersecurity Rules," by Eva Dou in Beijing and Rachael King in San Francisco reporting in the Wall Street Journal: "China is taking a more inclusive tack in...
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White House Appoints Retired Air Force General as First Cyber Security Chief
As part of its effort to improve defenses against hackers, the White House today named a retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Gregory J. Touhill as the first Federal Chief Information Security...
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New York’s Department of Financial Services Issues Cybersecurity Proposal
"New York state is proposing new rules requiring banks and insurance companies to establish cybersecurity programs and designate an internal cybersecurity officer, in what Gov. Andrew Cuomo described...
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Schneier: "Someone Is Learning How to Take down the Internet"
"Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet," wrote renowned security expert, Bruce Schneier, in a piece published in...
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