Monthly Archives: August 2016

Can the US voting system be hacked by anti-US interests?

The FBI has warned state officials to boost their security, since state election websites in Arizona and Illinois experienced hack-related shutdowns earlier this summer. More than 30 states have provisions for online voting. The FBI alerted Arizona officials in June … Continue reading

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Look out – powerful NSA hacking tools have just been hacked…

Transparency has its limits! Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and … Continue reading

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Insider Threats are Behind a Sharp Rise in Data Theft

Insider threats are behind the sharp increases over the past 18 months in the percentage of organizations that have experienced loss of company data.  According to the Ponemon Institute, three out of every four organizations (76%) have been hit over … Continue reading

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The focus of cybersecurity in this next episode should be on fraud and money laundering

Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money laundering and financial fraud online, the government said on Tuesday, because of “unprecedented” threats to national security. The measure expands on a major platform of conservative Prime Minister … Continue reading

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