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energy
DOE invests $50 million to improve critical energy infrastructure security

Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) is announcing awards of up to $50 million to DOE’s National Laboratories to support early stage research and development of …

money
European banks at mercy of US regulators

European banks are under disproportional enforcement pressure from US regulators. Since 2012, of the $38.4bn levied in economic crime fines worldwide, 97 percent of all fines …

Equifax
How Equifax failed miserably at handling its data breach

A data breach, as conventional wisdom goes, can happen to anyone, but how an organization handles the fallout is what shows us if they care about users at all – and …

power system
Dragonfly hackers gained operational access to European, US power companies

The Dragonfly hacking group is back – or should we say it probably never went away – and is still interested in penetrating the networks of European and US …

Lenovo
Lenovo settles FTC charges it harmed consumers with preinstalled software

Lenovo has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and 32 State Attorneys General that the company harmed consumers by pre-loading software on some laptops …

target
New, custom ransomware delivered to orgs via extremely targeted emails

Ransomware campaigns are usually wide-flung affairs: the attackers send out as many malicious emails as possible and hope to hit a substantial number of targets. But more …

USA flag
Judge limits DOJ’s search of anti-Trump website data

After the US Department of Justice demanded from DreamHost data that could identify visitors of anti-Trump website Disruptj20.org and the web host refused to comply with such …

United States Cyber Command
US Cyber Command gets unified military command status

Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States Cyber Command, which is currently a division of the NSA, will be elevated to the status of a Unified …

Trump
DOJ wants to know who visited anti-Trump website

The US Department of Justice wants DreamHost to hand over IP addresses of some 1.3 million visitors to disruptj20.org, a website that helped organize political protests during …

Law legislation
PACER vulnerability allowed hackers to access legal docs while sticking others with the bill

A CSRF flaw that made it possible for attackers to access court documents on the PACER system while making legitimate users pay for it has finally been plugged. What is PACER? …

Power lines
How a port misconfiguration exposed critical infrastructure data

Much has already been said and written about the dangers of potential cyber attacks targeting the electric/power grid. And in Ukraine, they’ve already gone from …

HBO
HBO hackers demand money, leak more stolen data and GoT scripts

The hackers who’ve breached HBO and supposedly made off with 1.5TB of the company’s data have released a second data dump. According to the Associated Press and …

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