According to sources, the defendants passed confidential information to the US intelligence services. The Moscow District Military Court (MOVS) sentenced one of the former heads of the Information Security Center (CIB) of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Sergei Mikhailov, and the ex-head of the department to 22 and 14 years in a strict regime colony for treason ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into a cyberattack that has delayed several of the country's largest newspapers, owned by the Tribune publishing house. The virus launched by hackers affected the publications of the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun and other smaller ones ...
According to the New York Times, employees of the US cyber command are identifying the Russians who interfere in the elections and are trying to dissuade them from doing so. The targets are "hackers" and "intelligence officers". The US Cyber Command is intimidating individual "Russian operatives" in an attempt to dissuade them from ...
Earlier this month, hackers compromised the government's computer system that interacts with HealthCare.gov, compromising the personal data of about 75 people, officials said Friday. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid made an announcement late in the evening before the weekend, Voice of America writes, ...
Hackers gained access to the contact details of 30 million Facebook users through a vulnerability discovered in September. They could get the names, phone numbers and email addresses of 15 million social network users. The company announced this in a blog post, writes Currently. Hackers took advantage of the vulnerability ...
Hackers are selling Facebook logins on the online black market for as little as $2,60, according to new research from Money Guru. This information was made public just a couple of hours after the Facebook administration announced a large-scale attack, which could have resulted in...
California will be the first state to be required by manufacturers of devices that connect to the Internet to set a unique password on them or have a password generation system built into them starting January 1, 2020. The corresponding law was signed by the governor of the state Jerry Brown, writes N + 1, with reference ...
Three Ukrainian citizens - 44-year-old Dmitry Fedorov, 33-year-old Fedor Gladyr and 30-year-old Andrey Kopakov - were detained in the United States on charges of cyber attacks against more than 100 companies. In the documents of the US Department of Justice, they are called members of an "experienced international cybercriminal group," writes ...
Russian hackers from the Fancy Bear group, which is believed to be responsible for stealing emails from US Democratic Party leaders before the 2016 elections, have also been intimidating families of US military personnel in the name of the "cyber caliphate" - supposedly hackers associated with the terrorist group. The victims of intimidation were 5...
The card account data of customers of Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America fell into the hands of hackers. The Canadian retail company said that the specialists were able to identify the problem and they took action, adding that "there are no notifications yet" that the data breach somehow ...