• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia’s 5 largest banks

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia.The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Georgia says it’s traced an attempted voter hack to the Department of Homeland Security

Georgia’s secretary of state says the state was hit with an attempted hack of its voter registration database from an IP address linked to the federal Department of Homeland Security.
The allegation by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is one […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Georgia says it’s traced an attempted voter hack to the Department of Homeland Security

Georgia’s secretary of state says the state was hit with an attempted hack of its voter registration database from an IP address linked to the federal Department of Homeland Security.
The allegation by Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is one […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-09-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Snowden documents: U.S. and UK spy agencies have been intercepting in-flight phone calls for years

U.S. and U.K. spy agencies have been monitoring in-flight mobile phone users for years, according to new revelations from the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.As early as 2012 the U.K. Government Communications Headq... Read More