BRUSSELS (AFP) – EU security commissioner Julian King says Europe faces a growing threat of cyber attacks from criminals and those plotting to destabilise the 28-nation bloc politically.
A Democratic state assemblyman from California has announced a bill that would require the State Board of Education to develop a curriculum that will “ensure that all California students will learn about how the Russian government conspired to influence the United States Presidential Election to elect Donald Trump.”
The Department of Homeland Security could not have picked a better succeeding week to perform a Friday news dump announcing its decision to designate state election systems as “critical infrastructure” like previously done for the nation’s transport, electrical, financial, and water systems. Though this largely predictable move has sparked concerns among state election officials and watchdogs with respect to federal over-reach, equal uneasiness has been expressed about the incredibly vague nature DHS has chosen to describe how it will intervene in Constitutionally-prescribed state matters.
The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday.
Frank Gaffney discussed fallout from the Russian hacking intel report with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Wednesday.
A hacker claims to have breached the FBI’s official website for the second time, describing their security systems as “lazy.”
The personal information of thousands may have been compromised by a security breach in San Antonio’s largest school district, only it happened in August and the affected students and staffers are first learning about it now.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan describes Wikileaks editor Julian Assange as a “sycophant” to the Russian government, following the unsubstantiated claims that leaked emails published by Wikileaks came from Russia.
Donald Trump took to Twitter Friday to praise Vladimir Putin for his decision to delay his response to President Obama’s new sanctions against Russia for the country’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
It is interesting that President Barack Obama, who during eight years in office has, historically, been slow to act on international challenges, has moved quickly to impose sanctions upon Russia for alleged interference with the 2016 election. He moves well before a detailed investigation into the issue can be concluded.
Russia has an interest in not getting along with the United States, which is going to frustrate any American administration, like it or not.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway reacted to President Barack Obama’s decision to levy sanctions against Russia for alleged hacking that many have said sway last month’s presidential election outcome. Conway referenced a New York Times
President-elect Donald Trump pledged Thursday to meet with members of the intelligence community in response to President Barack Obama’s new sanctions against the Russia, which Obama says are a punishment for Russian tampering with the American political process.
Thursday in an interview with MSNBC, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said while he supported measures to “protect” American elections, he argued the information that the Russians have been accused of hacking to underm “The truth is, and I think that
House Speaker Paul Ryan issued a statement on Thursday backing President Barack Obama’s new sanctions against Russia.
President Obama issued an executive order on Thursday sanctioning Russian intelligence officials, individuals, and organizations based on as-yet unproven accusations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by hacking the emails of Democratic Party officials.
Adultery hookup website “Ashley Madison” have been been ordered to pay out $1.6 million to exposed users of the site following last year’s hack and leak of account data.
Joining the rest of the hyperventilating left with its spittle-specked, irrational hate of President-elect Donald J. Trump, serially-fired sportscaster Keith Olbermann now insists that Trump is a “puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. is “no longer a free people.”
“I would say that at a certain point, the effort to try to delegitimize President-elect Trump’s win I think, probably most people are getting tired of that [and] probably realize that what President-elect Trump is focused on now is moving the country forward and bringing us together and… actually making good deals that work for American citizens and getting the economy going,” Donald Trump’s spokesman says.
“Going back to this overall narrative that is in the news right now, I think really clearly what this is, is an attempt to try to delegitimize President-elect Trump’s win,” aide Jason Miller says.
As one of his last acts in office, President Barak Obama has ordered a “full review” of the rumored cyber attacks on the 2016 election, despite that there is no proof that any occurred.
Adobe Flash and Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities dominated the Exploit Kit landscape last year, according to a report by Recorded Future.
A McDonald’s drive-thru intercom was hacked at a restaurant in North Carolina, with the perpetrators ridiculing customers through the system.
A report from a group of Israeli researchers claims that hackers may soon be utilising people’s speakers or headphones to listen in on conversations.
The websites of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both came under attack shortly before election day, according to cybersecurity firm Flashpoint.
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Britain will boost its cyber security defences with a 1.9 billion pound ($2.32 billion) investment due to be announced by Finance Minister Philip Hammond later on Tuesday, a statement from the Treasury said.
The Hillary Clinton campaign team believed an email claiming that someone had logged into campaign chairman John Podesta’s email account from Ukraine was “legitimate,” and demanded Podesta’s team switch passwords immediately.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suffered a major system-wide crash on Monday, raising concerns among some observers that the state’s voting system could be vulnerable to hacking.
Some of the internet’s most popular services, including Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, AirBnB, and Reddit, were taken offline Friday by a major cyber-attack across the internet.
“I think that the Russians have taken the measure of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, over the past eight years,” Center for Security President Frank Gaffney told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM. “Vladimir Putin is unquestionably ratcheting up his behavior, his aggression, his rhetoric, his threats – including of nuclear war against our allies, and periodically against us,” Gaffney warned.
NBC News reports that the Obama administration is very serious about its allegations that Russia has been attempting to interfere with the U.S. presidential election — serious enough to have the CIA draw up battle plans for a cyber-war counterattack.
National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested Wednesday for downloading “Sensitive Compartmented Information” to his home computer.
The FBI are investigating a potential hack of Democratic Party staffers’ cell phones, launching a request to examine a number of devices to check for evidence of a malicious attack.
Tesla has patched a security breach in the Model S that could have allowed someone to take control of a car remotely.
Half a million Pokemon Go players have been tricked into downloading an app onto their Android phone that does a little more than advertised.
A 23-year-old old woman identified as S Dhanya was hacked to death in India on Wednesday after rejecting a marriage proposal from a 27-year-old mill worker.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a senior fellow at the AEI Institute, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s emails, which were exposed by a hacker and include colorful negative comments about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton.
Nearly 800,000 users’ information has been exposed in a data breach of the porn site Brazzers.
John Banzhaf, professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School, talked with SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily about his warning that the election system could be hacked, possibly by foreign powers.
Approximately 22,000 pages of sensitive data about India’s six new French-built Scorpene submarines have leaked onto the Internet, creating what retired Vice-Admiral A.K. Singh described as a “potentially fairly disastrous” situation.
