Following the US announcements that it is planning to retaliate for presumed Russian hacking of the DNC, Russia says it is making preparations to mitigate the impact of any such attack, while suggesting the US has more to lose. Russia is reported to be designing a package of measures aimed at preventing possible cyber-attacks from […]
Couple of things, first I’ll put on my political hat. Keeping a server at the house, with physical control of the box, is a very clear sign that the Clinton’s (obviously both were using the server) are more concerned with their keeping personal secrets rather than national secrets. This should communicate very loudly what they […]
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WASHINGTON — North Korea’s already tenuous links to the Internet went completely dark on Monday after days of instability, in what Internet monitors described as one of the worst North Korean network failures in years. The loss of service came just days after President Obama pledged that the United States would launch a “proportional response” […]
There are at least 19 bogus cellphone towers operating across the United States that could be used to spy upon, and even hijack, passing mobile phones.
So says Les Goldsmith, head of ESD America, a company that imports and sells tightly secured mobile phones that can detect “baseband” hacking attempts. Goldsmith calls fake cell towers “interceptors.”
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Everyone, meet the National Security Agency’s Boundless Informant. It’s the pretty tool designed to help staffers get an overview of the data collected by the agency and which comes complete with its own Frequently Asked Questions guide. The Guardian ‘s Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill unleashed another scoop about the NSA’s big data troves Saturday a…
The latest revelations about the breadth of the US government’s intelligence dragnet , an apparent effort to monitor a broad range of domestic internet and phone communication in search of foreign terrorists, is a reminder that when it comes to surveillance , the land of the free is more like Syria or Iran than we might think. But don’t worry! Even as…
A Dutch citizen arrested in northeast Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in Internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials said Sunday.The suspect traveled in Spain using his van “as a mobile computing office, equipped with various antennas…
As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S.government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is eyeing fines and other trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyberespionage.According to officials familiar with the plans, the White House will l…
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Thursday that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year’s Superstorm Sandy, which knocked out electricity in a large swathe of the Northeast.Napolitano said a “cyber 9/11” could happen “imminently” and that critical infrastructure – including water, e…
Project Blitzkrieg, a coordinated attack against U.S. banking customers allegedly planned for the spring of 2013, is a real and credible threat, security researchers at McAfee have said.A cybercriminal using the nickname "vorVzakone" announced the plan back in September on a semi-private Russian-language underground forum and invited others to joi…