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You can be forgiven if you are confused about whether or not the emails from the DNC were taken by Russian hackers or lifted by an insider who in turn sold the electronic files to Wikileaks or was the work of someone else. While we do not have any clear evidence about the identity of the culprit or culprits, there are some undisputed facts that call into serious question that the DNC email debacle was a Russian Government Intel operation.
Robert TreviA o 39, and Gladys MuA oz, 41, stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker for a detention hearing related to their arrest on human smuggling charges on May 29, court records show. TreviA o, represented by a federal public defense attorney, elected to waive both his preliminary and detention hearing during his appearance before Hacker Tuesday afternoon.
Hackers and security researchers have routinely highlighted vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7 , a series of protocols first built in 1975 to help connect phone carriers around the world. It's not a small problem; we've been shown how the flaw can allow a hacker to track user location, dodge encryption, and even record private conversations while the intrusion looks like like ordinary carrier to carrier chatter among a sea of other, "privileged peering relationships."
The FBI has issued a warning to home and office internet users that a hack has been found involving Russian malware. You are asked to reboot your router in order to load the latest protections.
They buy expensive sensors that can detect malicious intruders bent on creating havoc. They field sales pitches from election vendors selling cyber-insurance.
Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone: "We know everything about you, your husband and your children," the Facebook message continued, claiming that the hackers operating under the flag of Islamic State militants had penetrated her computer and her phone. "We're much closer than you can even imagine."
With irrefutable proof in hand that hackers have penetrated the U.S. electricity supply system, and the tragic situation in Puerto Rico reminding us that life without electricity is harsh - not only no lights, but no banks, ATMs, internet or communications, limited food and water supplies, hospitals unable to provide services - it is welcome news that the Department of Energy has established a new office dedicated to cyber and energy security, and emergency response.
April 20 is cannabis culture's high holiday, and the Democratic National Committee celebrated it with fervor this year: Blaze up, get silly, file a bizarre lawsuit accusing the Russian government, Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and transparency activist group WikiLeaks of conspiring to steal an election. The suit confirms that after more than a year, special counsel Robert Mueller still hasn't amassed the evidence required for a successful criminal prosecution, requiring proof "beyond a reasonable doubt."
In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a troubling alert: Since the same month two years before, Russian state-sponsored hackers had been infiltrating the nation's electricity grid and various infrastructure industries, including aviation, collecting information on how the networks were organized and what systems' controls they had in place. While no sabotage appears to have been perpetrated, the unsettling question remains - what are the Russians going to do with the data they collected? While all these industries, especially their biggest players, tend to have extensive cybersecurity in place, it may not be as comprehensive as the nation would hope.
A hack on an Arizona election database during the 2016 US presidential campaign was carried out by suspected criminal actors and not the Russian government, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Sunday. The official was responding to a report on CBS News' "60 Minutes" citing an internal government document that Russian hackers successfully infiltrated computer systems associated with at least four US states, including Arizona, leading up to the 2016 election.
As security and encryption for mobile devices grow more sophisticated, the same techniques that keep users' data secure also make it nearly impossible for law enforcement to examine the contents of a phone without the user's permission. Even if the phone's manufacturer agrees to help officials unlock the phone, unencrypted data may not be available.
So much for cleaning up the swamp - and for that matter, Congressional oversight on it. A day after the VA's inspector general detailed misuse of public resources and efforts to manipulate records to cover it up by David Shulkin and his office, the House Veteran Affairs Committee shrugged it off as "bad optics."
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The U.S. Senate was recently targeted by hackers blamed with breaching the Democratic Party in 2016, cybersecurity researchers warned Friday, paving the way for a possible repeat of the election meddling witnessed during the last presidential race. Known by pseudonyms including Fancy Bear and Pawn Storm, the hackers began registering bogus websites in June 2017 mimicking the U.S. Senate's Active Directory Federation Services , the chamber's internal email system, as part of a phishing expedition intended to trick targets into disclosing their legitimate log-in credentials, according to Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm.
Data hacks are happening at an alarming rate to some of the world's largest companies, but consumers whose personal information is being stolen are struggling to hold those companies accountable. The problem, legal analysts say, is victims have a rough time connecting any one hack to a problem with their own credit or finances - without that direct link, judges have been tossing efforts to get companies to do more than provide credit monitoring.
Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus.
Kenneth R. Harney of the Washington Post Writers Group is a past member of the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory Council and is currently on the board of directors of the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Reach him at KenHarney@earthlink.net.
In this Jan. 19, 2017, file photo, then-President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump and family wave at the conclusion of the pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow engaged in cybermeddling to help get Donald Trump elected, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers who may have been operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has learned.