Cyber-Security
US Says China Backed Hackers Who Targeted COVID-19 Vaccine Research
The indictment said that the hackers operated both for their own profit and also for the main Chinese intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security. US Says China Backed Hackers Who Targeted COVID-19 Vaccine Research In the latest attempt to “name and shame” China’s government-sponsored cyber theft, the Justice Department…
Pentagon Being Investigated For One Of The Most Dangerous Intelligence Breaches In Decades #GotBitcoin
Pentagon Investigates More Social-Media Posts Purporting To Include Secret U.S. Documents. Pentagon Being Investigated For One Of The Most Dangerous Intelligence Breaches In Decades #GotBitcoin Documents include details on Ukrainian forces, U.S. arms provided to Ukraine. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFejmfUNn90&list=PLU1KxUVqGmaNOCvuASgZlr8Kx4lpcDxoE[/embed] The Pentagon is investigating social-media posts that purport to reveal highly classified…
Cyberattack Sends Quadrillion Dollars Derivative’s Trading Markets Back To The 1980s #GotBitcoin
Updated: 2-2-2023: The derivatives market is, in a word, gigantic—often estimated at over $1 quadrillion on the high end. Cyberattack Sends Quadrillion Dollars Derivative's Trading Markets Back To The 1980s #GotBitcoin * Shops Clearing Trades Were Forced To Process Deals Manually * Incident Highlights Importance Of A Little Known Software…
Weaponizing Blockchain — Vast Potential, But Projects Are Kept Secret
“Emerging technologies such as blockchain have the potential to define the war industry over the coming decades,” former NATO Secretary General Rasmussen tells Cointelegraph. Weaponizing Blockchain — Vast Potential, But Projects Are Kept Secret When Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that blockchain and artificial intelligence would “revolutionize war,” as…
Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users
Chrome remains under (unprecedented) attack from all sides this year, and now Google has confirmed a new problem that Chrome’s two billion+ users need to know about. Google Issues Warning For 2 Billion Chrome Users Google revealed the news via its Chromium Bug tracker, the codebase for Chrome, confirming that…
Six Million Tax Returns Are ‘In Suspension’ At The IRS, And That’s Preventing Many Families From Receiving A Valuable Tax Credit
The IRS backlog of 2019 tax returns keeps shrinking — but now for the bad news. Six Million Tax Returns Are ‘In Suspension’ At The IRS, And That’s Preventing Many Families From Receiving A Valuable Tax Credit Days after the latest tax season ended, the Internal Revenue Service still has…
US Ransomware Attack Suspect Hails From A Small Ukrainian Town
Dubrovytsia is a small town near Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus that boasts a Nobel laureate, physicist Georges Charpak, and a high school that attracts tech-savvy teenagers interested in math and computer science. US Ransomware Attack Suspect Hails From A Small Ukrainian Town Dubrovytsia is also the hometown of Yaroslav…
Alibaba Admits It Was Slow To Report Software Bug After Beijing Rebuke
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. conceded it was slow to report a major vulnerability in widely used software because it was unaware of its severity, a day after China’s tech industry overseer suspended cooperation on cybersecurity with the online retail giant. Alibaba Admits It Was Slow To Report Software Bug After…
Japan Defense Ministry Finds Security Threat In Hack
A cyberattack on Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in January last year included data files that may impact Japan’s national security, the defense ministry says. Japan Defense Ministry Finds Security Threat In Hack CyberSecurity Newsflash! In a statement dated Friday, the ministry said its probe of the incident found 59 of the…
Ultimate Resource On Solana Outages And DDoS Attacks
Solana Mainnet Back Online After Day In The Dark. Ultimate Resource On Solana Outages And DDoS Attacks Engineers succeed in restoring service across Solana’s network of node-runners after the system was in the dark for almost 20 hours. Solana’s blockchain validators came back online early Wednesday following a marathon session…
Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas
David Colombo, a 19-year-old cybersecurity researcher in Germany, came upon the biggest discovery of his young career by accident. Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas * Cybersecurity Researcher Began Programming At 10 Years Old. Teen Cyber Prodigy Stumbled Onto Flaw Letting Him Hijack Teslas * Flaws…
Those $#%$# Idiots At The New York Federal Reserve Allow Hackers To Take $100million From An Account Held For Bangladesh
Hackers Compromise Swift System. Those $#%$# Idiots At The New York Federal Reserve Allow Hackers To Take $100million From An Account Held For Bangladesh Hackers have again gained access to the world’s largest system for transferring funds among banks, a breach the network’s operator said indicates a wide-ranging effort to…