U.S. sanctions maker of Predator spyware
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned the makers of the notorious Predator spyware, a move that marks an escalation in the Biden administration’s attempts to counter the proliferation and...
View ArticleRussian hackers accessed Microsoft source code
In January, Microsoft disclosed that Russian hackers had breached the company’s systems and managed to read emails belonging to senior executives. Now, the company has revealed that the breach was...
View ArticleHealth care groups resist cybersecurity rules in wake of landmark breach
A cyberattack on a payment processor that has crippled large parts of the U.S. health care system is inspiring calls in Washington to urgently implement cybersecurity regulations for the sector,...
View ArticleByron Tau on data brokers; US sanctions, indicts Chinese hackers
To be a person in the world today is to be incessantly tracked, your data collected and aggregated, and then sold off to the highest bidder. Many of us intuitively understand this, but the...
View ArticleCyber review board blames cascading Microsoft failures for Chinese hack
A federal review board concluded in a scathing report Tuesday that the theft of a Microsoft signing key used to spy on senior U.S. officials was a preventable failure caused by the company’s failure...
View ArticleFederal government affected by Russian breach of Microsoft
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive this week to address the impact on federal agencies from a breach of Microsoft carried out by a hacking unit linked...
View ArticleMicrosoft organizational changes seek to address security failures
Microsoft said it will tie compensation for some senior executives to hitting security targets and that it will prioritize security in its products over shipping new features, in what is the company’s...
View ArticleState Department wants ‘digital solidarity’ at center of tech diplomacy
SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. State Department strategy document released Monday said the Biden administration aims to orient its cyber-diplomacy around the concept of “digital solidarity” to help partners...
View ArticleBiden administration bans sale of Kaspersky software in US
The Commerce Department will ban the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs from selling its software to U.S. consumers, the latest move by the Biden administration to curtail the Russian company’s...
View ArticleNorth Korean hacker used hospital ransomware attacks to fund espionage
Federal prosecutors announced the indictment Thursday of a North Korean hacker accused of carrying out ransomware operations that targeted American health care facilities and used the proceeds of...
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