Surprise, surprise, surprise – an internal audit of the US Government cyber security situation has uncovered widespread weaknesses, legacy systems and poor adoption of cyber controls and tooling. US Government security has often been called into question but we’d hope in 2019 it would have gotten better and at least everyone would have adopted the […]
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U.S. State Department Hacked
So the U.S. government has been getting fairly hammered lately with breaches/attacks hitting the White House, USPS (Postal Service) and NOAA. The latest victim of this onslaught has been the State Department, which had to totally shut down their email systems on November 14th after discovering various ‘areas of concern’. I wonder who’s going to […]
1 Million Accounts Leaked From Banks, Government Agencies & Consultancy Firms
Seems like some hactivists have been working hard, 1 million accounsts were leaked over the weekend from some pretty serious sources by the group Team GhostShell – who are affiliated with Anonymous. It seems like these weren’t particularly complex or technically adept multi-layer attacks, they were carried out via the most common avenue – SQL […]
Obama To Create Cyber Security Czar In White House
[ad] It looks like Obama is taking a serious stance on Cyber Security and Cyber Crime with his introduction of a new position which will be known as the ‘Cyber Czar’. As a senior White House official this is quite a serious position with the responsibility of protecting both the US government networks and looking […]