Shorr Bytes: According to three unnamed sources of Bloomberg, Russian hackers managed to hack the election systems in 39 U.S. states during the 2016 Presidential Election. This is twice as originally reported by the American media. As a result, the Obama administration had to use the “Red Phone” to complain to the Kremlin. Just in case […]
In a surprising decision, President Barak Obama has commuted Chelsea Elizabeth Manning’s (born Bradley Edward Manning) sentence. This means that Manning will be set free on 17 May 2017 rather than in 2045. The 29-year-old transgender whistleblower was sentenced to prison for 35 years in 2013 for leaking highly sensitive military documents to Wikileaks. The […]
President Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence agencies to deeper investigate the alleged Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential Election. President Barack Obama is going to close his Presidential mandate, in one of the conclusive activities he has ordered intelligence agencies to deeper investigate the alleged Russian interference with the Presidential Election. He ordered a “full review” of cyber […]
In his very last month in workplace, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence corporations to behavior a “complete review” of pre-election cyber assaults towards Democratic birthday celebration organizations that many consider affected the final results of the 2016 presidential election. the USA intelligence businesses have attributed the ones collection of cyber-attacks to Russia that shook […]
Short Bytes: The White House has open sourced its Facebook Messenger bot that was launched in August. The chatbot, which receives messages on behalf of President Obama, is developed using Drupal. It is available for download on the GitHub repository of the White House. President Barack Obama’s Facebook Messenger bot went live in August. The bot […]
Image: Ewen MacAskill interviewing Edward Snowden/YouTube Short Bytes: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has asked for presidential pardon on moral and ethical grounds from the US president Barack Obama who will be leaving office after the election. A Pardon Snowden campaign has also begun to support Snowden and his presidential pardon request. Edward Snowden is an […]
Short Bytes: The U.S. government is working on a firewall named EINSTEIN intrusion detection system that is expected to keep the federal agencies safe from cyber attacks. However, even after spending a whopping sum of about $6 billion, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is unable to device a system that can perform basic network security […]
Short Bytes: The maker of McAfee antivirus and privacy advocate John McAfee is again in the headlines. In his latest op-ed, he stresses upon the need of encryption, calling it a necessity. Bashing the governments who demand restrictions on encryption measures, he says that Obama administration lacks the real understanding of privacy. John McAfee, the most […]
Government Officials under Attack: Hackers Who targeted CIA Director now reach the White House The hacking group Crackas With Attitude have been targeting officials since October and turned out to be a nightmare for US government officials. After compromising CIA Director John Brennan’s AOL email account, now the group have claimed another high-profile victim- John […]
A Yemeni hacker going with the handle of “Lov3rDns” has hacked and defaced the official social network domain of U.S president Barack Obama, used during his election campaign. After taking on Saudi Arabia, the hackers from Yemen are heading towards the United States and to deliver their message a Yemeni hacker hacked into the official […]
Google and Apple have signed a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject any proposal that would grant police access to encrypted phone data.
American President Barack Obama’s emails were accessed by Russian hackers last October in a White House security breach, according to the NYT report. The emails that were read during this computer system breach were of unclassified nature. Earlier this month, officials admitted that White House security system was hacked by Russian hackers. According to the […]
President Barack Obama has issued an executive order allowing economic sanctions against hackers outside the United States.
The United States President Barack Obama announced a new sanctions program yesterday to counterattack the foreign hackers. President Obama’s sanctions program will target the hackers who are a threat to the national security, American foreign policy, and economic stability. Till now, these foreign hackers have been outside the reach of the States government. “This executive […]
A class of people are happy, a few are neutral and some of them are angry with the way it has been going on in the country. In this latest video message, hacktivist group Anonymous has targeted US President Barack Obama for his imperial style of Presidency. Anonymous said in the video: Until they become […]
The Obama administration wants greater power to shut down botnets, responding to the growing threat of cybercrime and increasingly complex, modern techniques.
President Barack Obama intends to persuade Congress to increase the sentence for hackers, as well as widen the definition of what hacking means, according to Ars Technica.
President Barack Obama is planning to push legislation which would protect companies from lawsuits for sharing cyberthreat data with the government, reports the Washington Post.
President Barack Obama is today to propose legislation that would ensure companies inform customers of any leaks within 30 days of a data breach, reports Physorg.
The Sony Pictures Hack was probably the biggest tech news of this month. It hasn’t just remained an ordinary hack, but instead it has grown to become a safety concern for all the established websites and startups. This teaches a safety lesson to all different types companies, whether web-based or alien to online services. Companies and budding […]
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order to increase security on federal credit cards, and has urged retailers and banks to do similar to combat identify fraud, reports Reuters.