The FBI Alerts About Misleading Election Videos: Disinformation and Its Consequences for Democracy With the U.S. presidential election on the horizon, worries about the dissemination of disinformation are at their peak. On Saturday, the FBI released a statement regarding the distribution of mislea...
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...
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! Around that time, that same ...
An alert this week by the FBI warns of increased ransomware activity as we head into the weekend - https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-243a. According to Alert (AA21-243A), the FBI and CISA are sharing information to provide awareness to be especially diligent in network defense...
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...
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FBI warns of increasing cybersecurity attacks KTVU's Tom Vacar reports. SAN FRANCISCO - Federal authorities are warning companies in the Bay Area of increasing ransomware cyberattacks known as Zeppelin. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) Agency said the warning is ...
The PIN is the third ransomware-themed alert the bureau has sent this year. It previously sent two other alerts in May, one about the ProLock ransomware and another general alert about Ryuk. Security The best VPN services of 2024: Expert tested How to turn on Private DNS Mode on Android...
FBI systems compromised to send out fake attack alerts Hackers break into the Bureau’s email systems to send out at least 100,000 emails warning recipients of imminent cyberattacks The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has had its email servers compromised, with the hackers then sending out...
Unlike normal app notifications, push alerts, as their name suggests, have the power to jolt a phone awake—a feature that makes them useful for the urgent pings of everyday use. Many apps offer push-alert functionality because it gives users a fast, battery-saving way to stay updated, and...