Americans Split on the Current State of Cybersecurity

Edward Snowden is a former U.S. government contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to the press in 2013. These documents exposed the National Security Agency’s global surveillance programs run in conjunction with European governments, telecommunication companies and the Five Eyes Intelligence Agency.

Lucy Hale slams nude photo hackers

The ‘Pretty Little Liars’ star fell victim to hackers on Wednesday when photos of her bare chest surfaced online, and she has now taken to Twitter to comment on the invasive actions, likening the act to being “violated, stolen from, and exposed.” Posting a photo of a note she had written on her phone to the social media site on Thursday night , the 27-year-old actress wrote: “Well, I wasn’t going to comment on something so ridiculous, but since 2017 is gonna be all about speaking my truth…I’m going to say something.

Lucy Hale slams nude photo hackers

The ‘Pretty Little Liars’ star fell victim to hackers on Wednesday when photos of her bare chest surfaced online, and she has now taken to Twitter to comment on the invasive actions, likening the act to being “violated, stolen from, and exposed.” Posting a photo of a note she had written on her phone to the social media site on Thursday night , the 27-year-old actress wrote: “Well, I wasn’t going to comment on something so ridiculous, but since 2017 is gonna be all about speaking my truth…I’m going to say something.

CVE-2016-9675

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Cyberchase

Math rules! CYBERCHASE, an animated adventure series, takes kids on a wild ride through cyberspace where they are challenged to use the power of math. In the world of cyberspace, a classic good-versus-evil battle rages.

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‘Tis the season to be jolly – but it’s also the season for identity theft, phishing and credit card fraud. With Christmas just days away, people are using their smartphones and other devices to get a handle on their last-minute shopping.

Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election

Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.

Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election

Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.

Google open-sources test suite to find crypto bugs

Working with cryptographic libraries is hard, and a single implementation mistake can result in serious security problems . To help developers check their code for implementation errors and find weaknesses in cryptographic software libraries, Google has released a test suite as part of Project Wycheproof .

Trend Micro Provides IoT Buyers Guide for Holiday Shopping Security Concerns,

Infographics and an interactive quiz are also available, highlighting product features that threat actors can use for accessing personal information and monetary exploitation. “Our goal with these resources is to help parents and guardians keep their families safe from online privacy and security risks,” said Lynette Owens, founder and global director of Internet Safety for Kids & Families at Trend Micro.

Cyber Insurance Now Critical as Data Breaches Wreak Havoc

While 2016 may have been one of the worst years in history for network security, there is at least one silver lining for According to the Insurance Information Institute, more than 60 different insurance companies are now offering standalone cyber insurance policies, with an estimated U.S. market of more than $3.25 billion in gross written premiums this year. That figure is the direct result of two related trends.

Printers as a Security Threat

In today’s digital age, everybody knows just how important security is. We look at PCs and smartphones-and the valuable data they hold-and immediately understand how rich a target those devices are to cyber criminals.

Tufin Extends Check Point R80 Security Management Across a Multi-Vendor Network

With Tufin, Check Point users who are currently deploying or plan to deploy R80 Security Management can extend the benefits of consolidated security across physical networks, private and public cloud platforms. “By supporting R80 Security Management, we are taking our relationship with Check Point a step further, offering joint customers a powerful yet seamless way of managing security policies across a multi-vendor network,” said Ofer Or, vice president of products, Tufin.

Former Camelot employee hacked into databases to con bosses out of…

How the Lotto fraudsters almost got away with it: Former Camelot employee hacked into databases to con bosses out of A 2.5million with a forged ticket The details of how a convicted rapist and former Camelot employee duped the National Lottery into giving away a A 2.5million jackpot have been revealed. Edward Putman, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1991 for raping a 17-year-old girl after breaking into her house, won the lottery in 2009 after using a fake ticket to claim the cash prize.

Yahoo Hack: Change Your Passwords

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An Empire Unrealized for Want of a Spam Filter

The Wall Street Journal has an apparently interesting report today about Russian attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, at the same time that they were successfully hacking the DNC. I write “apparently” because I’m too cheap to have a WSJ online subscription, so I’ll share the summary from New York magazine : Russian hackers tried and failed to infiltrate the Republican National Committee earlier this year by sending a series of phishing emails to a single employee, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Life after Yahoo: How iOS users can stay safe online

This has been a very challenging year when it comes to online security on every platform. We’ve seen some of the biggest online hacks in history; we’ve learned that over a billion Yahoo accounts have been compromised, and Apple recently patched a flaw that let hackers break into Macs.

Trump has been lying about the Russian hack. He just accidentally admitted it himself.

In recent days, Donald Trump has been spinning a new narrative about CIA charges of Russian interference in our election: The administration did not leak the news of this finding until after Trump won, which shows this is just an after-the-fact effort to undercut the significance of his victory over Hillary Clinton. As Trump tweeted Thursday : “If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?” This is not some small offhand remark.

The Kremlin’s Ingenious Plan to Hack the Election, Revealed

On the evening of September 11, 2012, Russian hackers infiltrated the information system at the State Department’s Office of Public Affairs. They digitally doctored a press release that correctly blamed the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists of Ansar al-Sharia for the then-unfolding, deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Cyberattack 411: Protecting your vehicle from hackers

New vehicles are packed full of the latest and greatest technology. Among their many capabilities, today’s vehicles can automatically apply brakes to avoid collisions, maintain a designated following distance behind the car ahead of it and maneuver the vehicle back into its lane if the driver veers out of it.

Obama orders review of election-season hacking

President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyberattacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday. The review, led by intelligence agencies, will be a “deep dive” into a possible pattern of increased “malicious cyber activity” timed to the campaign season, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

Catastrophe tests show capital risks to London insurers

A major $200 billion loss from a combination of a cyber attack, U.S. hurricane and the failure of a reinsurer could strip insurers of up to 120 percent of their net capital base, tests of insurers in London showed. However, capital-raising or asset sales meant losses would not put the insurers out of business, according to the results of the tests published on Tuesday.