"In August 2016, a group calling itself Shadow Brokers released a cache of top secret cyber spying capabilities almost certainly belonging to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Out of the …
Ukraine hackers claim huge Kremlin email breach
"Two Ukrainians have given details of emails they helped to hack belonging to top Russian officials at the Kremlin. Several emails they claim to have cracked are linked to Vladislav Surkov, one of the …
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White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem
"The U.S. government believes hackers from Russia or elsewhere may try to undermine next week's presidential election and is mounting an unprecedented effort to counter their cyber meddling, American …
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Fear This Man and his Hacking Empire
"To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire..." "This is just the latest fallout of Morocco’s use of Hacking Team software …
Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country
"Experts believe that the future DDoS attack could reach 10 Tbps, which is enough to take down the whole Internet in any nation state. One such incident is happening from past one week where hackers …
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The Competitive Landscape for Machine Intelligence
"The next step is to use machine intelligence to realize value from new sources of data, which we highlight in the ‘Enterprise Intelligence’ section of the landscape. These new sources are now …
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One-Third of Corporate Cyber Attacks Succeed
"About one-third of targeted attempts to breach corporations’ cyber defenses succeed but three-quarters of executives remain unaccountably confident in their security strategies, Accenture Plc. …
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Five Possible Hacks to Worry About Before Election Day
"America’s top intelligence officials say he is highly unlikely to be able to alter the results. But they expect Russian hackers, or others, to try to disrupt the process — perhaps to help Donald J. …
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Exploit code for common Internet database software released
"The issue actually stems from unsafe file handling of error logs and other files, which comes under MySQL system user privileges, allowing it to be replaced with an arbitrary system file, which opens …
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Computer Virus Cripples UK Hospital System
"Citing a computer virus outbreak, a hospital system in the United Kingdom has canceled all planned operations and diverted major trauma cases to neighboring facilities. The incident came as U.K. …
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