News in the Government category

Cyber-Espionage Group Launches Spear-Phishing Campaign Six Hours After Trump Wins Presidency

Six hours after Donald Trump had won the 2016 US Presidential Election, a cyber-espionage group believed to operate out of Russia had launched a wave of spear-phishing emails aimed at various US think tanks and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 10, 2016
- 05:05 PM
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Canada Immigration Website Crashes as Trump Prepares to Become US President

Canada's immigration website has gone down on the night of the US Presidential Election after early poll results started coming in, showing Republican candidate Donald Trump holding a small lead, which slowly grew as the evening progressed.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 09, 2016
- 03:25 AM
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China Passes New Cybersecurity Law That Grants Government the Power to Shut Down the Internet at Will

On Monday, November 7, 2016, the Chinese government passed a new cybersecurity law that heavily restricts Internet freedom for the country's citizens and gives the government the power to shut down Internet access at will, in the name of "national security."
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 08, 2016
- 06:00 AM
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US 911 Emergency Services Can Be Shut Down by DDoS Attacks From Mobile Botnets

Research published last week by the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel reveals that it only takes about 6,000 smartphones infected with malware to launch a DDoS attack capable of shutting down 911 emergency services in a US state.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 15, 2016
- 07:25 PM
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Encrypted App Makers Need to Help Fight IS, Argue Germany and France

Germany and France feel the makers of encrypted messaging apps like Telegram and Signal should help fight Islamic State terrorists, and they're pushing for Europe-wide rules to make that happen.
- David Bisson
- August 23, 2016
- 01:09 PM
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Researchers Find "Strong Connection" Between NSA Hackers and Leaked Files

Security researchers have uncovered a "strong connection" between a mysterious data dump and a group of hackers known as the Equation Group who are believed to be working for the United States National Security Agency. This connection indicates that the data dump does indeed containing information that belonged to the Equation Group.
- David Bisson
- August 17, 2016
- 02:49 PM
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U.S.A's Nuclear Defense Program is run from Floppy Disks

Sometimes you read something and you can't quite believe it and then you read it again and get scared. This is what happened when I read through the United States Government Accountability Office's Report to Congressional Requesters about the need to update aging legacy systems.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 26, 2016
- 06:17 PM
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