A new report from global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky analyzed 40,000 smart buildings worldwide that use the firm’s security products and found that 37.8 percent had been affected by a malicious cyber attack. In most cases, these attacks were attempting to infect the computers that control smart...
A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach ...
A joint advisory from the National Cyber Security Centre has detailed how the UK and its allies have crackedSnake, a Russian malware used by the FSB. Operating as Britain’s foremost intelligence agency, GCHQ worked with the FBI and similar agencies in Canada and Australia to foil one of Russ...
Wray said the FBI has been working to beef up traditional partnerships with state and local law enforcement, while also creating other ones with business and academia to help counter threats against cybersecurity or intellectual property. In Minneapolis and other offices, he said, authorities are co...
"Or threats will be monitored, trigger automatic alerts, and enforce certain lockdowns, but often those still require human action for mitigation and additional security controls," O'Neill said. See also:This phishing attack is using a sneaky trick to steal your passwords, warns Microsoft ...
Late on Friday night, the FBI/DHS’s infrastructure – specifically, the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) – had begun pumping out the alerts about fake cyberattacks, sent from the very real FBI address eims@ic.fbi.gov. Register now for our LIVE event!
Microsoft and Google expand security tools to political parties in Canada, Europe Police demand Google remove speed trap, drunk driver checkpoint alerts FBI: Hate crimes have gone up in the US, both online and offline CNET How the FBI weighs cybersecurity risks against other criminal threats TechR...
BOSTON (AP) - Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a major ransomware assault against the U.S. healthcare system. Independent security experts say it has already hobbled at least four U.S. hospitals this month, and could potentially impact hundreds more. In a joint ...
Distribution of the alerts coincided with reports that hackers had infiltrated police networks to steal data, and then publicized stolen personal information. One incident, in which members of the Anonymous hacking group claimed to distribute hacked data from the Minneapolis Police Department,proved to ...
Now deepfakes are being used to perpetrate sex crimes. Over the past six months the FBI hasissuedat least twoalertsabout the threat of sextortion scams – especially against children and teens. Internet users in 2017 were introduced to how deep-learning techniques and neural networks could create...