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Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedInRussian hackers compromised Microsoft’s cloud customers through a third party, putting email and other data at risk – The Washington Post
“If it’s true that a cloud service provider customer’s data has been exfiltrated and is in the hands of some threat actor, that’s a very serious situation,” said John Reed Stark, who runs a consulting firm and is former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Internet Enforcement. “It should raise all sorts […]
The Cyber Threat Is Real and Growing – WSJ
It appears that this was purely an intelligence-gathering effort. The SVR sat on government networks collecting as much data as it could, whenever and however it wanted. It was less like tapping into phone lines and more like breaking into the library and wandering around. Every country conducts espionage. That’s not the alarming part. What […]
Trump downplays Russia in first comments on hacking campaign
While Trump downplayed the impact of the hacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has said it compromised federal agencies as well as “critical infrastructure.” Homeland Security, the agency’s parent department, defines such infrastructure as any “vital” assets to the U.S. or its economy, a broad category that could include power plants and financial institutions. One […]
Russia’s Ex-Cybersecurity Chief Gets 22 Sentence in Jail | World News | US News
A Russian military court convicted a former senior counterintelligence officer and a cybersecurity firm executive of treason Tuesday, concluding a case that initially aroused speculation of a manufactured effort to punish the source of leaks about Russian campaign hacking. Moscow’s District Military Court heard several months of evidence and arguments behind closed doors before delivering […]
Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference – The New York Times
They were even more surprised when they asked the F.S.B. agent why the Russians were devoting such resources to the blockchain standards. “Look, the internet belongs to the Americans — but blockchain will belong to us,” he said, according to one delegate who was there. The Russian added that two other members of his country’s […]
Russian Agents Behind Yahoo Breach, U.S. Says – The New York Times
Federal prosecutors announced charges against four men, including two Russian intelligence agents, on Wednesday for their roles in a conspiracy that led to the 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, one of the largest known data breaches. The four men together face 47 criminal charges, including conspiracy, computer fraud, economic espionage, theft of trade […]
Someone Has Hacked the U.S. Electricity Grid, Round Up the Usual Suspects . . .
In my recent article entitled, “Someone Has Hacked the U.S. Electricity Grid, Round Up the Usual Suspects . . .” This third article about the Russians and hacking addresses the Washington Post’s recent fake news story about a Russians cyber-attack of the U.S. energy grid, which the Washington Post has now fully reversed and retracted.
US states re-examine cybersecurity | Post Register
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday it had found on one of its laptops […]
Trump, The Russians, The Elections and Hacking
In my recent article entitled, “Why Donald Trump is Spot-on About the Russians and the Election,” I was inspired by the surprising level of misinformation being spread about the Russians and the Election — I wanted to take an objective, detailed, comprehensive and scientific analysis of the facts, so intelligent readers could rise above all of the noise.
Why Donald Trump is Spot-on About the Russians and the Election | John Reed Stark | LinkedIn
President-elect Donald Trump has recently questioned: 1) President Obama’s finger pointing at the Russians for election-related cyberattacks; and 2) the current media and pundit frenzy alleging a Russian cyber-strike targeting Secretary Hillary Clinton in order to insure a Trump presidency. President-elect Trump plans to press U.S. intelligence agencies to defend their conclusions, stating, Having worked […]
The Truth About the Russians and the Elections | John Reed Stark
No one truly knows the identity of the perpetrators of any of the purported election-related hacks, including the 17 agencies signing off on the Statement. The Statement, recklessly seized upon by some journalists, pundits and politicians, said the hacks “. . . are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures […]
Exclusive: Big data breaches found at major email services – expert | Reuters
Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email […]
Record-breaking data breach by Russian gang highlights widespread security flaws — Mercury News
In what appears to be the biggest data breach ever, a Russian gang reportedly has stolen 1.2 billion user names and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses from 420,000 websites. via Record-breaking data breach by Russian gang highlights widespread security flaws — Mercury News
Pittsburgh Is Fertile Ground for Prosecution of Cybercrime Cases | The Legal Intelligencer
A pair of recent international cybercrime cases out of Pittsburgh—one against an organized conspiracy based in Russia and another against a hacking unit of the Chinese military—have been heralded as groundbreaking and likely forecast a focus on that kind of prosecution. via Pittsburgh Is Fertile Ground for Prosecution of Cybercrime Cases | The Legal Intelligencer.