cybersecurity

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Sellers on the dark web have been advertising Covid-19 vaccines, asking for bitcoin payments and not delivering the goods, cybersecurity firm Check Point found.

WhatsApp updated its terms of service agreement that appears to give users little choice to opt out of sharing data with parent company Facebook.

On Tuesday, U.S. intelligence agencies said Russians were likely behind the breach, which impacted multiple government departments.

It’s the first time the government has publicly said it appears likely the attack was Russian in origin.

Assange is wanted in the U.S. over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents and diplomatic cables in 2010 and 2011.

The culprit is said to be Russia, but equal responsibility lies much closer to home.

One thing is for certain — the tech battle between the U.S. and China will continue under a Biden presidency.

This year campaigns and party committees adopted physical security keys from Google and other companies to prevent the sort of email leak that happened in 2016.

President-elect Joe Biden condemned the massive security breaches against American businesses and government agencies and pledged to make cybersecurity a priority in his first 100 days as president.

By singling out Russia, Barr sided with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the rest of the national security establishment but contradicted Trump.

China’s government has criticized President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Chinese hackers, not Russia, might be behind a cyber espionage campaign against the United States

The company at the center of the attack, SolarWinds, has not assigned blame to any country thus far.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.”

“What that means is, effectively, if a hacker gets into one part of your organization that it’s contained,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told CNBC’s Jim Cramer.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora also told CNBC he doesn’t think it’s the last major attack.

All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of a punishing hack of U.S. government agencies

Susan Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence, says the massive cyberattack targeting federal agencies “will take years to overcome.”

The government’s cybersecurity agency is expressing increased alarm about a hack of computer systems in the U.S. and around the globe that officials suspect was carried out by Russia

A new CNBC survey found that most tech execs believe state-sponsored cyber attacks are the biggest threat to their company and should be Biden’s top priority.