U.K. cybersecurity.officials are concerned that Huawei has still not patched issues with its.routers leaving networks open to compromise. Ian Levy, technical director of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center, told The Washington Post that there are “worrying engineering issues” that have not been addressed by the company. Huawei was raised as the U.K. is in the…
Search warrants executed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian hackers have unearthed interactions between recently indicted Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and WikiLeaks, which leaked emails stolen from the DemocraticNational Committee (DNC) and other Democratic-related organizations and operatives, according to a Friday court filing. Mueller told the court that Stone’s case is related…
A former Cambridge Analytica executive is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. A spokesperson for the data analytics firm’s former business development director, Brittany Kaiser, said she was subpoenaed by Mueller, according to a report in the Guardian, and was also assisting in ongoing Congressional investigations. “This…
While the New Orleans Saints won’t be in Atlanta Sunday playing in the Super Bowl, that doesn’t mean their cheer – Who dat! – should be sidelined by security pros and fans who must be hyper-vigilant in recognizing and spurning cyberattackers. Saints fans might argue that dim-eyed refs pose the biggest threat to the game,…
The Department of Justice is attempting to disrupt the North Korean operated Joanap botnet by creating a roadmap of computers infected with the malware and then notifying those affected to the infected computer can be removed from the botnet. To try and defeat the Joanap botnet a court order was requested and received allowing the…
Facebook launched a public relations campaign centered on ensuring its users the social media giant has upped its game when it comes to protecting election integrity in the U.S., EU and around the world. Facebook’s Katie Harbath, global politics and government outreach director, Samidh Chakrabarti, director of product management, civic engagement and Anika Geisel, public…
The Department of Homeland Security’s newly created Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued its first-ever emergency directive on Tuesday, instructing federal government agencies to take preventative measures against an ongoing DNS hijacking campaign that has recently affected several executive branch domains. Cisco Systems’ Talos research unit first reported on the DNS infrastructure tampering in November…
President Trump’s colleague and former campaign adviser Roger Stone was indicted by a grand jury in Washington convened by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on seven counts, including making false statements about his interactions with WikiLeaks regarding its release during the 2016 presidential campaign of emails stolen from the DNC and Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Massachusetts are demanding the Justice Department reveal how the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies are using facial recognition technology. The rights organization has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to compel the department about the use of the technology “and what safeguards,…
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for President Trump, reportedly solicited – and paid for – a small tech firm to manipulate poll data to favor Trump in the lead-up to his presidential run. Cohen paid John Gauger, owner of RedFinch LLC and the CIO at Liberty University with whom the lawyer had an ongoing…
