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The investigation also concluded that employees in management job posts show worse handling of malicious mails than employees in low and middle posts Despite significant efforts deployed by many American organizations to raise awareness among their employees on information security issues, a recent research shows that many areas are still to be strengthened. According to […]
A series of events happened since last year has proved that internet needs to be taken seriously. There have been reports that Russian government impacted US Presidential elections. It has been known that various Russian government-backed actors tried to influence and disrupt US elections through multiple social networks and other platforms. Facebook is the most prominent of […]
The UK’s involvement got here to mild after the USA intelligence network published an unclassified model of a record that accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering a multi-pronged operation to persuade the election. In their record launched on Friday, the important Intelligence enterprise (CIA), the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) and the national safety corporation […]
Update: Microsoft has informed Fossbytes about a correction statement from the DOD which is to clarify the misleading language of the contract announcement. The contract doesn’t provide DOD, the rights to access Microsoft’s proprietary source code. DOD Statement: “The Department of Defense does not, and will not, have access to Microsoft’s proprietary source codes. The METSS-II […]
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 […]
The Squad X program will help the military to identify enemies even at night by using unmanned aerial vehicles’ scanning capability and robots following them The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off its Squad X Core Technologies program in a bid to try and improve soldiers and Marines situational awareness in treacherous and […]
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: Recently an open US voter database leak was discovered by Chris Vickery, a white hat hacker. This database contains information about 191 million US citizens including their personal information. Agencies responsible for campaigns which require users database deny the act. FBI has been informed about the same situation lately. A database containing registration information […]
Short Bytes: The Chinese government has taken an unprecedented step to comply with a U.S. request and arrest some hackers suspected of hacking attempts at American organizations, according to reports. If you take a look at the international scenario of increasing cyber-attacks and cooperation between the nations, you’ll observe two very similar trends. USA and China […]
The U.S. government has not yet notified any of the 21.5 million federal employees and contractors whose security clearance data was hacked more than three months ago, officials acknowledged on Tuesday. The agency whose data was hacked, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), said the Defense Department will begin “later this month” to notify employees […]
Short Bytes: In a surprising development, Police in North Dakota are now authorised to use armed drones equipped with tasers, rubber bullets, tear gas and other “non-lethal” weapons, after the passage of House Bill 1328. Ironically, this bill was originally intended to limit the surveillance powers of the police. Do you remember the terror-drone out […]
Microsoft’s dedicated website to fight the US government surveillance and privacy breachings has just been hacked. While Microsoft is aiming to bring improved security features to the users in Windows 10, it looks like the company forgot to secure its own systems. The website named Digital Constitution was launched in 2013 by the Redmond just […]
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 […]
According to a recent scandalous CNN report, Russian hackers hacked the White House computer systems. Russian hackers infiltrated the sensitive parts of White House computer security system in the recent months. This was reported by CNN on Tuesday, according to U.S. officials who briefed on the investigation. It should be noted that US president Barack Obama […]
It’s is an undeniable fact that different governments use hacking as a security and a way to keep an eye on its citizens but they aren’t much comfortable admitting this fact. US citizens, in particular, are the one most troubled in this regard by its agencies NSA and FBI. When asked about it, these agencies only say […]
In 2012, we reported that US NAVY faces 110,000 cyber attacks every hour. Now a report has gone viral that Iran’s penetration into the US Navy’s computer network was far more extensive than previously imagined, according to Wall Street Journal . The officer who led the response attack may face questions on it from senators considering his […]
The official websites of NASA (http://www.nasa.gov) and National Park ()have been shutdown until further notice by the United Stated Government. It is not some kind of cyber attack but a step taken as a result of Government Shutdown. NASA website has been redirected to http://notice.usa.gov, showing a message of shutdown until further notice. The message […]