The FBI Botched Its DNC Hack Warning in 2016—but Says It Won’t Next Time

Facing looming election threats and a ransomware epidemic, the bureau says it has revamped its process for warning hacking victims...

12 Russian Intelligence Agents Indicted For Hacking DNC Emails

The US Justice Department has announced criminal indictments against 12 Russian intelligence officers tied to the hack of the Democratic National Committee DNC during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. The charges were drawn up as part of the investigation of Russian interference in the...

US Identifies 6 Russian Government Officials Involved In DNC Hack

The United States Department of Justice has reportedly gathered enough evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials for allegedly playing a role in hacking DNC systems and leaking information during the 2016 presidential race. Earlier this year, US intelligence agencies concluded...

Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who'd turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected ...

LinkedIn Hacker, Wanted by US & Russian, Can be Extradited to Either State

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the Czech police in Prague last October on suspicion of massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, can be extradited to either the United States or Russia, a Czech court ruled on Tuesday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, a 29-years-old Russian national, ...

Trump Cyber Executive Order Calls for 60-Day Review

President Donald Trump cited the hack of the Democratic National Committee as a “good example” for the need of a stronger cyber security measures for both the private and public sector. “The Democratic National Committee was hacked successfully, very successfully, and terribly successfully,” Trum...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

Two US State Election Systems Hacked to Steal Voter Databases — FBI Warns

A group of unknown hackers or an individual hacker may have breached voter registration databases for election systems in at least two US states, according to the FBI, who found evidence during an investigation this month. Although any intrusion in the state voting system has not been reported, t...

Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats

The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee DNC, has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC as well. To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday...

Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign also Hacked in Attack on Democratic Party

There's a lot more to come from the DNC Hack. The Associated Press confirmed yesterday that the computer systems used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were hacked as part of the recent Democratic National Convention DNC hack. Last week's email dump containing almost 20,000 emails from t...

Is Russia Behind the DNC Hack to Help Donald Trump? FBI Initiate an Investigation

On Friday, just three days prior to the start of the party's national convention, WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 e-mails with more than 8,000 stolen from the US Democratic National Committee DNC following a cyber attack in June. Two days later, on Sunday, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz...