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FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed
FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed Security consulting company FireEye has been hacked and their “Red Team” tools, which was their proprietary intrusion detection and testing toolkit has been stolen. In a blog post about the incident the company attributed the breach to a highly skilled nation state actor possessing “world class capabilities.” FireEye’s […]
“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt
“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now […]
US Electric Grid Hacked: Perpetrators Could Have Shut Down the System
US Electric Grid Hacked: Perpetrators Could Have Shut Down the System Hackers broke into the US electric grid with spearphishing techniques targeting contractors with system access. The Wall Street Journal has a detailed report out today regarding a sophisticated, and successful attack by hackers into the US electric grid. The hackers could have temporarily shut […]
“The Criminals Who Run The Deep State Will Be Exposed”: Kim Dotcom Teases “Next Round Of Leaks”
“The Criminals Who Run The Deep State Will Be Exposed”: Kim Dotcom Teases “Next Round Of Leaks” Hacker and serial entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is out with a new prediction for 2019: “Get ready for the next round of leaks.” ✔ I smile every day watching the aftermath of preventing Hillary. Deep State exposed. Fake news […]
U.S. cybersecurity experts scrambling to thwart major attacks on power, water, gas infrastructure by “bolting on” fixes to old vulnerable systems
U.S. cybersecurity experts scrambling to thwart major attacks on power, water, gas infrastructure by “bolting on” fixes to old vulnerable systems (Natural News) Crammed into a small building in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a group of about 50 cyber security experts and researchers are working around the clock to protect American infrastructure from debilitating attacks. As […]
Major Psy-Op in Europe Exposed: UK Government Tramples on Values It Vowed to Protect
Major Psy-Op in Europe Exposed: UK Government Tramples on Values It Vowed to Protect Those who have been saying that the West has turned Russia into a scapegoat to be blamed for each and every thing that goes wrong have been proved right. We have witnessed concocted stories invented to denigrate Moscow that have gone […]
DNA Website MyHeritage Hacked; 92 Million User Accounts Exposed
DNA Website MyHeritage Hacked; 92 Million User Accounts Exposed In an odd coincidence, earlier today we asked rhetorically “what could go wrong” if millions of Americans trust a DNA collecting company – in this case ancestry.com – with their genetic code. At almost the exact same time, Bloomberg reported that the Israeli-based consumer genealogy website, […]
Quantum Computers Will Make Even “Strong” Passwords Worthless
Quantum Computers Will Make Even “Strong” Passwords Worthless The race is on to perfect quantum computing. It will make your bank passwords and all existing security methods useless. The Hutch Report has a fascinating 44-page PDF on Quantum Computing. If perfected, existing methods of encryption will cease to work. Your bank account password and passwords […]
Leaked Files Show How NSA Tracks Other Countries’ Hackers
AP LEAKED FILES SHOW HOW NSA TRACKS OTHER COUNTRIES’ HACKERS WHEN THE MYSTERIOUS entity known as “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago, most experts who studied the material honed in on the most potent tools, so-called “zero-day” exploits that could be used to install malware […]
Russian Hackers Target U.S. Energy Infrastructure
Russian Hackers Target U.S. Energy Infrastructure Russia has been trying to interfere with U.S. energy markets and influence U.S. energy policy by using Russian operatives to troll social media platforms with divisive and inflammatory posts, a report by House Republicans has revealed. The report—issued by the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology—includes […]
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack”
Kim Dotcom: “Let Me Assure You, The DNC Hack Wasn’t Even A Hack” Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet from President Trump clarifying his previous comments on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump I never said Russia did not meddle in […]
How UK Spies Hacked a European Ally and Got Away With It
Photo: Sander de Wilde/Corbis/Getty Images HOW UK SPIES HACKED A EUROPEAN ALLY AND GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR A MOMENT, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013, and European investigators were looking into an unprecedented breach of Belgium’s telecommunications infrastructure. They believed they were on […]
The “Meltdown” Story: How A Researcher Discovered The “Worst” Flaw In Intel History
The “Meltdown” Story: How A Researcher Discovered The “Worst” Flaw In Intel History Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel, something we discussed in “Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” […]
“Everyone Is Affected”: Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering
“Everyone Is Affected”: Why The Implications Of The Intel “Bug” Are Staggering Earlier today, we reported that according to a press reports, Intel’s computer chips were affected by a bug that makes them vulnerable to hacking. Specifically, The Register said the bug lets some software gain access to parts of a computer’s memory that are […]
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA
NBC Pushes an Unfounded Conspiracy Theory on Behalf of CIA Retired National Security Agency (NSA) chief technology officer William Binney is being branded as a “conspiracy theorist” by corporate media outlets, most notably, the Comcast-owned National Broadcasting Corporation, for co-authoring a controversial memo issued this past summer by a group of former intelligence officers – […]
