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Six members of the pervasive yet elusive Russian military hacking operation behind some of the most destructive targeted cyberattacks in the world the Ukraine power grid in 2015 and 2016, NotPetya, and the 2018 Winter Olympics have been indicted by the…
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has announced charges against six Russian intelligence officers in connection with a series of majorly “disruptive and destructive” cyberattacks. The DOJ on Monday said that a federal grand jury had indicted six Russian comput…
Continue Reading“The FASC will assist departments and agencies in strengthening their respective SCRM strategies and implementation plans by identifying common initiatives, standards, guidelines, processes and proven practices implementable by all organizations. NIST,…
Continue ReadingThe combination of heightened cyber risk, potential legislative reform and growing interest in this area from claimant law firms and litigation funders suggests that the threat of data subject claims is a growing corporate risk both financially and rep…
Continue ReadingStocks fell on Monday, giving up early gains as hopes that lawmakers would be able to pass an economic stimulus continued to wither. The S&P 500 fell 1.6 percent, after starting the day with a small gain. European stocks also gave up small gains as gov…
Continue Reading“No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously and irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented collateral damage to pursue small tactical advantages and fits of spite,” John Demers, the head of the Justice Department’s Nat…
Continue ReadingUNICEF has announced that it will stockpile more than half a billion syringes to prepare for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine, reports the New York Times. The organization’s advance stockpiling is part of a broader plan to collect one billion syringes b…
Continue ReadingIn the aftermath of Moscow’s hacking of the 2016 US election, many analysts expected the GRU to be punished. After all, Russia’s powerful military spy agency had been caught red-handed. The FBI indicted several GRU hackers in humiliating fashion. The s…
Continue ReadingSome Japanese research institutions developing coronavirus vaccines have been hit by cyberattacks, apparently by China, in what are believed to be the first cases of their kind in the country, a U.S. information security firm said Monday. Amid an inten…
Continue ReadingThe Cyberspace Solarium Commission is looking to shore up security in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector by reducing dependency on suppliers from rival powers, especially China. “Put bluntly: in the context of our supply chains …
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