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NASA Was Also Breached in SolarWinds Hack
In addition to infiltrating the unclassified networks of seven other US government agencies, the suspected Russian hackers who compromised the IT services firm SolarWinds as a jumping off point also penetrated NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration. Researchers and officials testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday about the scope and scale of the…
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Oxford Univ. Covid-19 Lab Has Been Hacked
Oxford University confirmed on Thursday it had detected and isolated an incident at the Division of Structural Biology (known as “Strubi”) after it was disclosed that hackers were showing off access to a number of systems. These included machines used to prepare biochemical samples, though the university said it couldn’t comment further on the scale of the…
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Cybercrime-as-a-Service: It Was Inevitable
Cyber-criminal hacking operations are now so skilled that nation-states are using them to carry out attacks in an attempt to keep their own involvement hidden. A report by cybersecurity researchers at Blackberry warns that the emergence of cybercrime-as-a-service schemes means that nation states increasingly have the option of working with groups that can carry out attacks…
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IBM is Out of Date To Be Effective For Data Security
IBM, though a behemoth of consulting, are out of touch when it comes to data security. In a report released Wednesday, security arm IBM X-Force describes some of the latest threats that have surfaced and offers advice on how to protect your organization against them. On Page 48, IBM X-Force offers the following “recommendations for…
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China Is Collecting the World’s DNA…Our Patented DNA Binding (TM) Cryptography Will Protect Data Misuse
Your DNA is in high demand by the Chinese government. The Chinese government is heavily invested in bioindustry. However, human rights groups say the Chinese government uses DNA testing for security purposes — such as identifying and tracking Uigher Muslims, the ethnic and religious minority whose members are being held in detention camps, in huge numbers, in western China.…
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Myth: Macs Have Better Data Security Than PC’s
Mac’s have recently been the subject of a fair number of cyber attacks. This article p0ints out that 30,000 units are infected with a Silver Sparrow malware. The main reason that Mac’s have been less the target of cyber attack is simply that there is fewer of them. PC’s have been running on Windows for…
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We’ll Know the C-Band/5G Spectrum Soon…Helix22 Offers the Lowest Latency of any Data Security Product
C-Band will be critical to the wide spread implementation of 5G. The top C-Band bidders are Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and Charter (together, in a joint venture), T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Dish. The official bid period ended last week and now it is juts a matter of who gets what and how much it will cost.…
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BLAKFX Offers 22nd Century Data Security
BLAKFX offers a full range of custom products and services including the state of the art Helix 22 SDK (backed by 28 patents) that provides the most secure data encryption technology in the world. Our product offering is so advanced, we like to think of ourselves as offering 22nd Century capabilities for data and physical…
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France To Increase Cyber Defense After Numerous Attacks
France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, indicated that the French government would increase their cyber defenses. Part of the French plan is to inaugurate a Cyber Security center in Paris. Additionally, they will invest approximately €500 million in IT programs, training, jobs and the private sector. Every national government needs to invest substantively more in their cyber…
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Kia Is The Victim of a $20,000,000 Ransomware Threat
It appears that Kia Motors America is the latest victim of a rather substantive ransomware attack, as reported by Bleeping Computer. The attack appeared first with a nationwide IT outage across Kia’s North American business earlier this week. The outage affected Kia’s mobile UVO Link app, phone services, payment systems, payment systems, owner portal and…