Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Famous Romanian hacker Guccifer, who is currently serving time in Romania for having hacked some e-mail accounts of important political figures and celebrities, spoke to a Fox News journalist about the latest diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Russia. During The…
10 Years Prison Time For Hackers, Russia Plans New Law
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In order to teach a lesson to cyber criminals and hackers, the Russian government has proposed changes to the law. Cyber attacks on Russian infrastructure will lead to hard consequences including up to 10 years imprisonment and heavy fines. Proposed The…
White House Tried Barring Senior Lawmakers From Blaming Russia for Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The White House attempted to prevent top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees from publicly confirming the Russian government was behind the recent cyber attacks against political computer systems. Senior administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff The…
U.S. Considers Sanctions Against Russia in Response to Hacks of Democratic Groups
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WASHINGTON—U.S. officials are discussing whether to respond to computer breaches of Democratic Party organizations with economic sanctions against Russia, but they haven’t reached a decision about how to proceed, according to several people familiar with the matter. Levying sanctions would The…
‘Anything’s Possible’ Obama Points to Russia on DNC Hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Russia may have been behind the leak of hacked Democratic National Committee documents, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his first public comments on the breach. Asked whether Moscow was trying to influence the presidential election, Obama said, “Anything’s possible.” Obama,…
Russia Wages Sophisticated Cyberwar in Ukraine – This Hacktivist Strikes Back
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Eugene Dokukin, a Ukrainian hacker, is fighting a cyberwar against Russia and the separatists in Eastern Ukraine. He knows his opponent has the upper hand. Russian cyberspies have managed to even make an electric grid crash in Ukraine. Yle travelled to…
FBI, Russia Team Up to Destroy Firefox, Hillary and Apple
Hackers on both sides of the law are placing personal privacy at risk. The FBI hacked into Mozilla Firefox. And Russia may release presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, which were obtained from Romanian hacker “Guccifer.” How far will hacking go, as personal, political, and government privacy may be at stake….
US AND RUSSIA DON’T WANT TO MISTAKENLY GET INTO A CYBER WAR
The USA and Russia are holding talks this week aimed at making sure the two superpowers don’t mistakenly get into a cyber war. According to CNN, the meeting will take place this week in Switzerland, and will include officials from the White House, State Department and FBI, and their Russian…
UNSCR 2270: A Conundrum for Russia
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The international community’s relationship with North Korea has reached a bifurcation point that may have far-reaching consequences for the strategic positions of key national players. Specifically, the latest UN sanctions against the DPRK appear likely to substantially harm Russian economic and…
Apple iPhone 6s lands in 40 more markets, Russia and India score the highest prices
Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and many more countries are seeing the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus launch get released in the Apple Stores of their respective location today. It’s Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy,…