Attivo Networks has named FireEye veteran Tony Cole as its CTO as the company looks to boost its presence in the government, financial services, and oil and gas verticals. The Fremont, Calif.-based vendor brought Cole on board to help Attivo deliver more clarity to the...
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced yesterday that it detected malware on the computer networks of 20 Russian government organizations. FSB's announcement come when the US is in turmoil following two separate cyber-incidents at the Democratic Party, the party of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.First...
A hacker is selling stolen credentials that purportedly give access to servers of the US Navy, Centers for Disease Control, US Postal Service, and other US government sites.Listings for the accounts were found recently by Tech Insider on a dark web marketplace called The Real...
Some of the U.S. Library of Congress’s websites are currently inaccessible as the result of a denial-of-service attack, the Library of Congress announced Monday.The cyberattack was originally detected on July 17, a spokesperson told FedScoop. The attack has also caused other websites hosted by...
A hacking group called the Turk Hack Team is taking credit for a shutdown of the Library of Congress website and hosted systems including Congress.gov, the Copyright Office, Congressional Research Service and other sites.The group claimed credit on an online message board where users go...
A sustained distributed denial-of-service attack is being blamed for dropping Congress' central website from the web for the past three days.The Library of Congress (loc.gov) and the US Copyright Office (copyright.gov), which are operated on the same servers, also struggled to stay online.The Library of...
The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013, including the workstation of then-FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, a congressional report says.The report issued Wednesday by the Republican majority staff of the House Science,...
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced it is retiring the e-Filing PIN system following a new wave of cyber-attacks after crooks previously abused the same system last February. In a statement on the IRS website, the agency says it was planning to eliminate the...
As part of a years-long cyber attack, North Korean hackers have allegedly stolen 42,000 materials from South Korean organizations and government agencies, including blueprints for F-15 fighter jet wings.The hacking began in 2014 and was first detected in February, according to South Korea's police cyber...
The U.S. Federal Reserve detected more than 50 cyber breaches between 2011 and 2015, with several incidents described internally as "espionage," according to Fed records.The central bank's staff suspected hackers or spies in many of the incidents, the records show. The Fed's computer systems play...