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CRN Exclusive: Attivo Networks Snags Ex-FireEye CTO Tony Cole To Accelerate Vertical Push
15:55 14 March in Attivo News
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...
Russia Says It Detected Malware on PCs at 20 Government Organizations
08:11 02 August in Industry News
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 claims to have stolen credentials to a bunch of US government sites — and he’s selling them on the dark web
14:48 26 July in Industry News
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...
Library of Congress hit with a denial-of-service attack
10:04 25 July in Industry News
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...
Turkish hackers claim credit for Library of Congress attack
16:00 21 July in Industry News
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...
Congress’ website was down for three days
10:34 21 July in Industry News
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...
Chinese Government Suspected of Hacking Into FDIC Computers
11:06 15 July in Industry News
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,...
IRS Retires e-Filing PIN System After More Cyber-Attacks
07:51 28 June in Industry News
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...