Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the director of NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate; Neuberger will join the Biden admin as deputy adviser on the NSC
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Mike Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign, the first Trump administration official to publicly blame the country
and Chose Not to Fix Them Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News : Secretary of State Pompeo says hack was ‘pretty clearly’ Russian Oriana Gonzalez / Axios : Pompeo says Russia is “pretty clearly” behind c...
DOD and DHS say malware dubbed SlothfulMedia is being used in ongoing campaigns in India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Russia, and Ukraine
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How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop : Tweets: @jeffstone500 , @snlyngaas , @iblametom , @jgamblin , @jscros , @underworld_pod , and @shanvav . Thanks: @jwarminsky Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : I've spent ...
Behind the US cybersecurity defense led by DoD's Defense Digital Service of Operation Warp Speed, meant to protect vaccine research from nation-state attacks
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New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service
on its app, website, security white paper—that its video calls are “end-to-end encrypted,” but when @theintercept asked them about it they said: “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption...
Bipartisan congressional committee report gives 75 recommendations for how US government should approach cyber security issues, from Cyber Command's goals to 5G
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Court filing sheds light on how US was able to attribute the Equifax hack to China and the techniques alleged state sponsored hackers used
Even for U.S. law enforcement, the Equifax hack was different. — Unlike in previous examples of apparent Chinese government-backed cyber-operations … Tweets: @shanvav , @decaturand , @profcarroll , ...
Sources: US Cyber Command launched an offensive cyber strike on Thursday that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches
*** A new report from the Deloitte Center … Alexandra Ma / Business Insider : Iran says that US cyberattacks — said to be Trump's preferred retaliation — didn't work SecurityWeek : Iran Denies Being H...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...