A cyber-espionage group infiltrated satellite, telecom and defense companies in the US and Southeast Asia, and evidence suggests that the campaign's objective was espionage. Identified by Symantec and announced on 19 June, the campaign originated from machines based in mainland China, according to researchers. Thus far, the analysis suggests that the defense, telecom and satellite sectors – more specifically, the geospatial sector – have been targeted. In the geospatial sector, t...
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"Intelligence services in China, Russia and elsewhere are capitalizing on a treasure trove of recently hacked US government data to identify American spies, according to a new report.
Foreign powers are using data stolen from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in particular and combining it with breached information from healthcare providers like Anthem, infidelity site Ashley Madison, United Airlines, and other firms to build up a digital identity for US intelligence o...
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The National Initiative on Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has published for public comment a draft document that classifies the typical duties and skill requirements of cybersecurity workers. The document is meant to define professional requirements in cybersecurity, much as other professions, such as medicine and law, have done....
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Hospitals are responding to healthcare data security threats, with nearly 29 percent of them targeting facility IT spending toward increased security, according to a recent IDC study...
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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults are becoming more common, increasingly sophisticated and more costly all the time: Incapsula research in fact pegs the cost of DDoS at nearly $40K per hour. Yet organizations continue to rely on the same dated firewall solutions they have always used to protect themselves....
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Former employees of the National Security Agency are becoming a hot commodity in Silicon Valley amid the tech industry’s battle against government surveillance.
Investors looking to ride the boom in cyber security are dangling big paydays in front of former NSA staffers, seeking to secure access to the insider knowledge they gained while working for the world’s most elite surveillance agency....
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