Justice Department Indicts 80 in Substantial Email Scam and Money Laundering Scheme

The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed a 252-count federal indictment charging 80 defendants with involvement in a massive business email scam and money laundering scheme. The 145-page indictment, unsealed Thursday, said the 80 named individuals are charged with conspiracy to...
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LATEST NEWS

DISA Launches SAFE to Allow Enterprise-Wide Ability to Safely Transfer Files in the DoD

Agencies
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on August 15 launched the Department of Defense (DoD) Secure Access File Exchange (SAFE), to provide users with...
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Hackers Can Downgrade Tor Network Efficacy Through Costly DoS Attack: Research

CyberNews
A new study has revealed that a hacker or a nation-sponsored bad actor can degrade the performance of the Tor network for a few...
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NIST Releases Plan For Federal Engagement in the Development of AI Standards

AI
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week announced the release of its long-anticipated Plan for federal engagement and U.S. leadership on artificial...
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UPS is Testing Delivery With Autonomous Vehicles

Vehicles
Atlanta-based shipping giant UPS revealed on Thursday that it is entering the self-driving vehicle space by investing in TuSimple, an autonomous driving company that...
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Texas Hit With Ransomware Targeted Against 23 Organizations Connected to Local Government Departments

CyberNews
A cybersecurity incident on August 2019 in the U.S. state of Texas in which about 23 entities connected to smaller local governments where hit...
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Microsoft Acquires jClarity to Boost Java Workloads on Azure

Tech
Microsoft announced on Monday that it is acquiring jClarity, a contributor to the AdoptOpenJDK project, to support their continued contributions to open source while...
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FEATURED

US Grants Huawei Another 90-day Extension to Purchase From American Suppliers

Security
The Trump administration has extended a deadline for U.S. businesses to cut ties with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, according to a statement by Department...
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Management and Control of Data a Key Inhibitor to Federal Cloud Adoption – NetApp

Exclusives
Tight budgets and the need for greater flexibility and agility in government IT has led to a rise in cloud adoption. Even so, the...
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Exclusive: The Consensus is That FedRAMP is Broken and Confidence Lost – Avnet

Exclusives
Government cloud adoption is definitely showing an upward trend as federal, state and local agencies hampered by limited resources and bogged down by regulations...
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IoT is a Very Scary Environment: We Have Only Seen The Tip of The Iceberg – Cyber adAPT

Exclusives
Defense in depth is the best solution with regards to cybersecurity, many security experts agree. With the upward trend in BYOD, many enterprises are...
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POPULAR

Exclusive: Cyber Is Battlefield Of Choice When Countries Disagree – FireEye Chief Security Strategist

Exclusives
NATO recently officially declared cyberspace a domain of warfare as the battle between nations shift to the so-called fifth domain. Lance Dubsky, Chief Security...
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For BlackMesh, Scaling And Securing Sites Makes Business Sense As Demand For IaaS Soars

Vendor Spotlight
Cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) currently hold sway in the realm of IT, and with the growth in mobility, no other platform offers quite as...
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EVENTS

JOBS

VENDOR WATCH

We Are at The Edge of Realizing the Potentials of Bug Bounties and Crowdsourced Security – Hackerone

More organizations are taking advantage of bug bounty programs to strengthen their security postures. It simply makes sense – crowdsource the best cyber talent at scale to find those security gaps before the bad actors find them, and exploit...
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Virtru

Virtru is Like a Spell Check for Security: We Take Privacy Very Seriously – Virtru CEO

John Ackerly is the cofounder, CEO of Virtru Corporation. He spent the earlier part of his career working as the lead policy adviser on technology issues at the White House, and Policy Director at the Department of Commerce. Ackerly...
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NEWS

Legislators Introduce Bill to Force Social Media Firms to Disclose How Much They Make From User Data

Legislation
Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday introduced the Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data...
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NEWS

DHS CISA Warns That Iranian Hackers Increasingly Using Destructive ‘Wiper’ Attacks

Security
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher C. Krebs on Saturday released a statement in response to...
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Legislators Introduce Bill to Force Social Media Firms to Disclose How Much They Make From User Data

Legislation
Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Monday introduced the Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data...
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Hackers Target Mobile Phone Networks in Sophisticated Cyber Espionage Attack

Security
Hackers compromised companies in more than 30 countries with the aim of gathering information on individuals in government, law-enforcement and politics, according to a...
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Google to Purchase Analytics Firm Looker for $2.6 Billion

Acquisitions
Google LLC today announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Looker, a privately held big-data analytics company, for $2.6 billion...
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NSA Releases Advisory on BlueKeep Vulnerability

Agencies
The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a cybersecurity advisory for CVE-2019-0708—a vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep. Although Microsoft has issued a patch, potentially millions of...
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BMW, Jaguar Collaborate on Electric Car Technology

Vehicles
The BMW Group and Jaguar Land Rover on Monday stated they are joining forces to jointly develop electric motors, transmissions and power electronics, an...
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INTERVIEWS

US Grants Huawei Another 90-day Extension to Purchase From American Suppliers

Security
The Trump administration has extended a deadline for U.S. businesses to cut ties with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei, according to a statement by Department...
Read more

Management and Control of Data a Key Inhibitor to Federal Cloud Adoption – NetApp

Exclusives
Tight budgets and the need for greater flexibility and agility in government IT has led to a rise in cloud adoption. Even so, the...
Read more

Exclusive: The Consensus is That FedRAMP is Broken and Confidence Lost – Avnet

Exclusives
Government cloud adoption is definitely showing an upward trend as federal, state and local agencies hampered by limited resources and bogged down by regulations...
Read more

IoT is a Very Scary Environment: We Have Only Seen The Tip of The Iceberg – Cyber adAPT

Exclusives
Defense in depth is the best solution with regards to cybersecurity, many security experts agree. With the upward trend in BYOD, many enterprises are...
Read more

Interview: Consumer IoT Security Best Practices With Cisco Talos

Exclusives
It is common knowledge that the internet of things is shockingly insecure. The possibility of hackers leveraging the connectedness of your washing machine to...
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If You Could Give Less Than an F Grade, OPM’s Management Deserves a G Grade Over the Breach – Ntrepid CEO

Exclusives
  Ntrepid's Richard Helms explains the reason why browser protection, not identity protection, is the best solution for handling the aftermath of the OPM breach. OPM...
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