Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country
and Chose Not to Fix Them Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News : Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian Oriana Gonzalez / Axios : Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind c...
DOD and DHS say malware dubbed SlothfulMedia is being used in ongoing campaigns in India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Russia, and Ukraine
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop :
How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop : Tweets: @jeffstone500 , @snlyngaas , @iblametom , @jgamblin , @jscros , @underworld_pod , and @shanvav . Thanks: @jwarminsky Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : I've spent ...
Behind the US cybersecurity defense led by DoD's Defense Digital Service of Operation Warp Speed, meant to protect vaccine research from nation-state attacks
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop : Tweets: @shanvav , @shanvav , @shanvav , @ncscgov , @shanvav , and @shanvav . Thanks: @gregotto Tweets: Shannon Vavra / @shanvav : I am told the assistance includes class...
New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
on its app, website, security white paper—that its video calls are “end-to-end encrypted,” but when @theintercept asked them about it they said: “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption...
Court filing sheds light on how US was able to attribute the Equifax hack to China and the techniques alleged state sponsored hackers used
Even for U.S. law enforcement, the Equifax hack was different. — Unlike in previous examples of apparent Chinese government-backed cyber-operations … Tweets: @shanvav , @decaturand , @profcarroll , ...
Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches
*** A new report from the Deloitte Center … Alexandra Ma / Business Insider : Iran says that US cyberattacks — said to be Trump's preferred retaliation — didn't work SecurityWeek : Iran Denies Being H...
Facebook says it has removed 82 Pages, groups, and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people in the US and UK
dodged a bunch of important Qs and didn't accept ours — so we've more to learn on this Iran stuff. Tony Romm / @tonyromm : the reality is — we can't yet say how big of a deal this is because Facebook ...
Facebook says it has removed 82 Pages, groups, and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran and targeted people in the US and UK
dodged a bunch of important Qs and didn't accept ours — so we've more to learn on this Iran stuff. Tony Romm / @tonyromm : the reality is — we can't yet say how big of a deal this is because Facebook ...
Source: Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts for violating spam rules; the accounts had posted pro-Saudi Arabia tweets about the disappearance of Khashoggi
Khashoggi: Bots feed Saudi support after disappearance Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter shuts down spambots spreading pro-Saudi hashtags related to Khashoggi disappearance Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing : ...