US Cyber Command warns about hackers exploiting a 2017 Outlook vulnerability in new attacks against US entities
US wants to isolate power grids with 'retro' (analog, manual) technology to limit cyber-attacks. SEIA bill, inspired by the 2015 cyber-attack on Ukraine's power grid, passes Senate.
Liveuamap is down with @Cloudflare down, even websites that tracking if the website is down are down too cause of Cloudflare, so it is hard to say how widespread this outage
A Texas jury has found that Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. misappropriated the trade secrets of a Silicon Valley chip startup
3 month agoConfirmed: Major internet disruption registered across Iran amid geopolitical crisis; real-time network data indicate international connectivity drop to 65% of normal levels
Reports from Iran that many foreign hosted websites as well as VPNs seem to be blocked. Internet intelligence shows 50% drop in BGP routes at 20:00 UTC
Blackout in Petrogradskaya district of St.Petersburg, power completely off in the areas of Gorkovskaya and Petrogradskaya metro stations. Reportedly 110kV line failed
No Internet in Western Myanmar until Security Situation Eases: MPT Official
Blackout in Simferopol: over 100 000 users are without power
3 month agoRoute Leak Impacting Cloudflare
Iranian Communications Minister: US cyber attacks against Iranian targets were not successful
"White House Is Pressing for Additional Options, Including in Cyberspace, to Deter Iranian Attacks; officers are working on additional clandestine plans to counter Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf" - @nytimes
3 month agoUS launched a cyber attack against Iranian systems the night after the drone incident: Washington Post
President Trump approved an offensive cyber strike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches
[email protected]: the "(Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) is aware of a recent rise in malicious cyber activity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian government actors and proxies."
On Thursday evening, U.S. Cyber Command launched a retaliatory digital strike against an Iranian spy group linked to the IRGC that supported last week's limpet mine attacks on commercial ships, according to two former intelligence officials
Prosecutors rebut Roger Stone, say the government independently verified that Russian operatives hacked the DNC in 2016 and didn't just rely on @CrowdStrike analysis
A Florida city is paying $600,000 in Bitcoins to a hacker who took over local government computers after an employee clicked on a malicious email link three weeks ago.
Internet hacking attack just caused widespread outages for Reddit, 4chan, Hulu, Spotify, Discord, Megapath, and League of Legends
A significant power failure has halted @Amtrak trains traveling between New York and North Philadelphia.
Train services are suspended into and out of Penn Station in New York City due to a power outage.
Canadian Government is creating a new Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force, an investigative team led by the RCMP and leveraging recent commitments, including the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism and a Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Instagram has flaws in its platform worldwide.
The Bellingcat YouTube channel has been restored after it's earlier permanent suspension
3 month agoYouTube has banned Bellingcat's YouTube channel
3 month agoResponding to allegations of Russian interference in European Parliament elections, Russian Amb to EU Chizhov says there was "no such thing" as from any official Russian source.
Putin's spokesman Peskov says there is hypothetical possibility of a cyberwar against Russia by the US
Information about the conflict in Chemodanovka was deleted from social networks, which the Prosecutor General's Office recognized as "unreliable". Group "Chemandovka is on fire" blocked
The Government will investigate the reasons for the massive power outage: "We will know the causes in about 15 days"
NSC officials said they had no national security concerns about the details of reporting about the targeting of the Russian grid, perhaps an indication that some of the intrusions were intended to be noticed by the Russians
