12/19/2020 5:00PM
12/19/2020
President-elect Joe Biden introduced his picks for a team that will address climate change during an event in Wilmington, Del., on Saturday. If confirmed, Michael Regan would be the first Black man to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Rep. Deb Haaland would be the first Native American cabinet secretary. Photo: Associated Press
Continue Reading →Examining the backdoor’s DNS communications led researchers to find a government agency and a big U.S. telco that were flagged for further exploitation in the spy campaign.
Continue Reading →U.S. government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. According to sources, among those was a flaw in software virtualization platform VMware, which the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec. 7 was being used by Russian hackers to impersonate authorized users on victim networks.
On Dec. 7, 2020, the NSA said “Russian state-sponsored malicious ...
Continue Reading →The ongoing, growing campaign is “effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical institutions,” Microsoft warned.
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