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Cybersecurity

Why US “cyber-warriors” can’t do anything about Russian “cyber-meddling”

February 28, 2018

Via: ArsTechnica

In testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, National Security Agency Director and US Cyber Command Commander Admiral Michael Rogers told senators that measures taken thus far by the US government in response to the information operations, […]


Cybersecurity

Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials

June 6, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

A Top Secret NSA analyst’s report published by The Intercept suggests that, in August 2016, the Russian General Main Staff Intelligence Directorate (GRU) hacked into an election-related hardware and software vendor in the US. The GRU then used data from […]


Cybersecurity

Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling

January 3, 2017

Via: ArsTechnica

In an executive order issued today, President Barack Obama used his emergency powers to impose sanctions on a number of Russian military and intelligence officials and also to eject 35 Russians labeled by the administration as intelligence operatives. The order […]


Cybersecurity

Researchers find fake data in Olympic anti-doping, Guccifer 2.0 Clinton dumps

October 7, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

A pattern of mischaracterization, misrepresentation, and outright alteration of breached data has emerged in two of the latest headline-grabbing batches of hacked files. Investigators discovered that recently published data from anti-doping testing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro […]


Cybersecurity

DNC Staffer got pop-up messages alerting of state-sponsored actors

August 2, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

An e-mail message within the Wikileaks dump of Democratic National Committee data suggests that the Yahoo account of one DNC staffer may have been specifically targeted by Russian hackers. The leaked message from DNC staffer Alexandra Chalupa includes a photo […]


Cybersecurity

DNC Breach extended to systems used by Clinton campaign

August 1, 2016

Via: ArsTechnica

An analytical system hosted by the Democratic National Committee and used by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign team was accessed by hackers. In a statement issued by the Clinton campaign, a spokesperson said that a network intrusion had exposed data on […]