The National Security Agency (NSA), the intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, recently announced the launch of a new division intended to protect the country’s intelligence and critical digital assets against foreign cyber threats. The newly established Directorate will integrate the agency’s foreign intelligence and cyber operations to enhance the country’s vulnerability assessments and cyber defense expertise. The new establishment, which is launched...
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At the Senate Intelligence Committee’s annual "Worldwide Threats" hearing, the top US intelligence agencies put technology front and center. For the top intelligence agencies in the US, technology has pushed aside terrorism as a top national security threat. The leaders of six of those agencies, including the CIA, the NSA and the FBI, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, during its annual "Worldwide Threats" hearing. They discussed concerns ran...
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There are more than 300 cybersecurity companies operating in Israel, making it an industry second only to the U.S. in size.In 2014, exports by Israeli cybersecurity companies reached $6B, equating to approximately 10% of the global cybersecurity market.In 2015, that percentage should increase, baed on 2014’s numbers when the industry grew almost 25%, with 81 new cybersecurity startups founded over the year....
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Email encryption is getting better but certain countries are deliberately preventing SSL requests from initiating, undermining industry efforts, according to a new report from Google. The study, in partnership with the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois, reveals that overall email security is better than it was two years ago. To this end, the number of encrypted emails received by Gmail from non-Gmail senders during the period increased from 33% to 61%. In addition, the percen...
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Academic study exposes prolific availability and demand for tailored malware, network access and corporate espionage services, which suggests many firms’ cyber defences are below standard. There has been a 20% rise in the number of dark net listings that have the potential to harm the enterprise since 2016, according to a report of cyber criminal markets on the dark web by Michael McGuire, senior lecturer in criminology at Surrey University. The dark net markets report, which is the third ...
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A spokesperson for Turkey's president says the country will increase security following a spate of cyber attacks last week that affected government websites and some banks. Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesperson for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told reporters on Monday that authorities were investigating the source of the cyber attacks that disrupted access to government websites and online bank transactions....
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