Security News

NSA Contractor Charged With Leaking Russia Hacking Report (Security Week)
2017-06-06 07:49

A federal contractor has been charged with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday. read more

Russia Tried to Hack US Voting Systems for Months: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-05 22:20

A top secret National Security Agency document shows that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election, The...

Leaked NSA report says Russians tried to hack state election officials (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-05 22:00

Source of leak arrested by FBI after Intercept provided copy to NSA.

Spear-Phishing Attacks Increasingly Focused: Report (Security Week)
2017-05-31 14:15

Spear-phishing attacks have become increasingly “laser-focused,” with many campaigns aimed at only a small number of inboxes belonging to the targeted organization, according to a report published...

Google Blacklists Sites Using Logins Over HTTP: Report (Security Week)
2017-05-30 13:30

In what appears to be yet another effort to encourage site owners to adopt HTTPS, Google is marking newly registered sites that serve login pages or password input fields over HTTP as unsafe,...

Apple Receives First National Security Letter, Reports Spike in Requests for Data (Threatpost)
2017-05-23 17:06

Apple revealed this week that it received at least one National Security Letter from the U.S. government for user data during the last six months of 2016