Federal investigators warned Thursday a massive U.S. cybersecurity breach thought to be the work of Russian hackers continues to threaten government networks and the private sector.
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Appearing for the first time before Congress since President Donald Trump fired him, the nation’s former cybersecurity chief told senators during a contentious hearing Wednesday that claims of fraud in the 2020 election are baseless and undermine democracy.
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President Trump’s losing election campaign and the lawyer who said his top election-security official Chris Krebs should be shot were hit Tuesday with defamation claims.
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Researchers at a cybersecurity firm say they have identified vulnerabilities in software widely used by millions of connected devices — flaws that could be exploited by hackers to penetrate business and home computer networks and disrupt them.
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Telecom companies in Britain face hefty fines if they don’t comply with strict new security rules under a new law proposed in Parliament on Tuesday that is aimed at blocking high-risk equipment suppliers like China’s Huawei.
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As the number of online devices surges and superfast 5G connections roll out, record numbers of companies are offering handsome rewards to ethical hackers who successfully attack their cybersecurity systems.
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France’s lower house of parliament is opening debate Tuesday on a security bill that would permit the imprisonment of people who publish images of police officers with intent to cause them harm.
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The IRS uncovered $2.3 billion in tax fraud during the 2020 fiscal year, according to an annual report released by the agency on Monday.
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A coalition of federal and state officials said Thursday that they have no evidence that votes were compromised or altered in last week’s presidential election, rejecting unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud advanced by President Donald Trump and many of his supporters.
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As Georgians cast their ballots and turned their attention to the results of a nail-biter 2020 presidential race Tuesday, the Georgia Democratic Party filed a lawsuit repudiating accusations leveled against it during the 2018 midterm election.
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Less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, a new poll released Tuesday shows a steep partisan divide on whether America has taken adequate steps to ensure the 2020 presidential election is safe and secure.
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A cybersecurity expert says a forensic image of Georgia’s election server contains evidence that the old system was infiltrated by hackers before the 2016 presidential election and the hotly contested 2018 gubernatorial vote.
Read moreA U.S. cybersecurity company says Russian military agents have successfully hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Read moreIf the FBI discovers that foreign hackers have infiltrated the networks of your county election office, you may not find out about it until after voting is over. And your governor and other state officials may be kept in the dark, too.
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The European Union has warned that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed without prejudice NSS Labs’ claim that Symantec conspired to suppress competition in the testing of cybersecurity products by adopting a standard to which NSS Labs refused to adhere.
Read moreWeighing his prior crimes against his help in stopping a global computer virus two years ago, a federal judge on Friday sentenced a world-famous British cybersecurity expert to time served and a year of supervised release for his role in a major malware scheme.
Read moreAlthough protecting personal data and improving information security systems are staples of California’s current legislative session, a new report released Tuesday says over 20 state agencies are hacking risks due to lax IT protocols.
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A bipartisan warning came out of a House committee Tuesday that the U.S. election system remains vulnerable to attacks from Russia and other foreign adversaries as the 2020 election nears.
Read morePresident Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a “virtual act of treason” for a story that said the U.S. was ramping up its cyber-intrusions into Russia’s power grid.
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