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Cyber diplomacy funding halted as US issues broad freeze on foreign aid
The U.S. State Department’s move to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance applies to the programs and funds of its relatively young cyber diplomacy bureau, according to two people familiar with ...
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Politicization of intel oversight board could threaten key US-EU data transfer agreement
The Trump administration’s decision to order the resignations of all Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) could jeopardize ...
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Here's who intelligence insiders tip for the next GCHQ director
The search is on for one of the most senior roles in British intelligence. U.K. intelligence community (UKIC) insiders believe that the departure of GCHQ’s current director, Sir Jeremy Fleming, offers ...
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US confirms takedown of China-run botnet targeting home and office routers
The U.S. Justice Department confirmed on Wednesday that it disrupted a botnet run by a prolific Chinese government hacking operation known as Volt Typhoon. News of the botnet takedown first emerged on ...
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Crime bosses behind Myanmar cyber ‘fraud dens’ handed over to Chinese government
Myanmar authorities handed over to the Chinese government 10 suspects accused of involvement in the organized cyber fraud industry, including the heads of three prominent crime families. The arrests ...
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State privacy laws have been crippled by big tech, new report says
The tech industry has shaped a series of weak privacy laws nationwide, according to a new report, with half of the 14 states to have passed such laws receiving ...
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Deadbolt ransomware hits more than 3,600 QNAP NAS devices
More than 3,600 network-attached storage (NAS) devices from Taiwanese company QNAP have been infected and had their data encrypted by a new strain of ransomware named Deadbolt. Devices attacked by the ...
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Georgia’s largest county confirms cyberattack causing widespread issues
The most populous county in Georgia is dealing with an IT outage caused by a cyberattack discovered over the weekend. Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts held a press conference ...
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Latvia confirms phishing attack on Ministry of Defense, linking it to Russian hacking group
The Russian cyber-espionage group known as Gamaredon may have been behind a phishing attack on Latvia's Ministry of Defense last week, the ministry told The Record on Friday. Hackers sent malicious ...
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Schneider Electric confirms ransomware attack on sustainability division
French multinational Schneider Electric said its Sustainability Business division suffered from a ransomware attack earlier this month. The company confirmed the incident in a statement this week that ...
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The Apache Log4j team talks about the Log4Shell patching process
On December 9, 2021, the internet learned of a major security bug in a little-known Java library named Apache Log4j. This little bug—codenamed Log4Shell—had one of the most significant impacts on the ...
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In patchwork of state privacy legislation, tech lobby sees a single battlefield
New Jersey’s governor signed a hard-fought data privacy law earlier this month, making the state one of eight nationwide to enact comprehensive privacy legislation in the past year. Getting there wasn ...