Report finds that Chinese hackers have been roaming through the networks of private US critical infrastructure companies for years now, often keeping their presence a secret for extended periods via the use of “living off the land” techniques.
Security exploit on the password manager allows anyone with privileged access to the system and any kind of memory dumps to locate strings that each contain one unprotected plaintext character from the master password.
It remains to be seen exactly how serious of a cyber risk these new top-level domains will be, but some system administrators are already blocking them out entirely as phishing sites emerge.
Cyber attack on the Philadelphia Inquirer kept a Sunday edition from going to print and lingering issues with newspaper operations continues to keep employees out of the paper’s offices.
When pharmaceutical giant Merck became a casualty of the far-ranging NotPetya cyber attack in June 2017, insurers had claimed that the incident was an “act of war” of the type frequently excepted from insurance claims. New Jersey court has now determined that Merck is entitled to over $1 billion in damages.
The new cyber defense bill would have the Department of Defense engage in both increased training of Taiwan’s own personnel and a more active role in directly disrupting Chinese cyber attacks.
National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre (CVERC), in partnership with Chinese security firm 360, are accusing the CIA of deploying cyber weapons to promote “color revolutions” that aim for government regime change.
A string of data breaches for T-Mobile that now dates back several years seems to be continuing without end, as the company has experienced two already in 2023. Those impacted in the latest breach are dealing with the loss of some very sensitive information.
Google indicated that it continues to see no shortage of bad apps, as it recently reported knocking some 1.43 million off the Google Play Store in the past year (along with about 173,000 developers that violated the rules of the road).
The cyber capabilities that China is reportedly developing for space are a step beyond the current deck of options. They involve directly intercepting and fabricating the signals that satellites use to communicate.