President Obama Orders 'Full Review' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election

In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The United States intelligence...

Risk of Election Day Cyberattacks Low According To Cyber Chatter

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets say so far, so good. They don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack come Election Day. That’s not to say the U.S. government isn’t ready for the worst. The White...

Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking tools and exploits, is back with a Bang! The Shadow Brokers published more files today, and this time the group dumped a list of foreign servers allegedly compromised by the...

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...

WikiLeaks Promises to Publish Leaks on US Election, Arms Trade and Google

Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come. In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential...

FBI Warned State Election Board Systems of Hacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division this month warned election officials nationwide to fortify voter registration data systems in the wake of two breaches it was able to detect earlier this summer. A “flash” warning sent by the agency about 10 days ago warned state boards of...

Government Promises Comment Period on Next Wassenaar Draft

It’s been months since the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security pulled the U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement off the table for an unusual rewrite of the rules governing so-called intrusion software. The overly broad rule drew the ire of security and privacy...

New RAT Trochilus Skilled at Espionage, Evading Detection

Researchers have uncovered a new remote access Trojan RAT that can evade sandbox analysis, is adept at carrying out espionage, and is being used in targeted threat operations. Named Trochilus, the malware is part of a multi-pronged malware operation that researchers at Arbor Networks are calling...

Virginia Voting Machines Exposed to Low-Level, Election Altering Hacks Since 2004

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency VITA is calling on the board of elections in that commonwealth to immediately discontinue use of its electronic voting devices after an examination revealed the systems lack strong credentials and encryption and are utterly vulnerable to vote...

Internet Voting Hack Alters PDF Ballots in Transmission

Threats to the integrity of Internet voting have been a major factor in keeping the practice to a bare minimum in the United States. On the heels of the recent midterm elections, researchers at Galois, a computer science research and development firm in Portland, Ore., sent another reminder to...

Cybersecurity Legislation Forecast is Grim

MINNEAPOLIS – If you’re expecting federal cybersecurity legislation any time soon, forget it. Despite the number of prospective bills on the Hill right now, Congress is unlikely to move anything forward any time soon, according to Matthew Rhoades, director cyberspace and security program Truman...

MS Windows Server 2003 AD Pre-Auth BROWSER ELECTION Remote Heap Overflow

No description provided by source. MS Windows Server 2003 AD Pre-Auth BROWSER ELECTION Remote Heap Overflow Release date: 2011-02-14 Author: Cupidon-3005 Greet: Winny Thomas, Laurent Gaffie, h07 Bug: Heap Overflow Remote Exploitability: Unlikely Local Exploitability: Likely Context: Broadcast,...

Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website

Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...

Federal Election Committee Audit Finds Security Deficiencies

The Federal Election Commission FEC, the government agency that keeps track of money raised each term by candidates and political action committees, is highly vulnerable to intrusions and data breaches according to a recent audit that discovered “significant deficiencies” in the FEC’s IT security...

College Student Gets Year in Prison for Wire Fraud in Tampering With Student Election

A former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced to a year in prison this week for wire fraud and other charges related to election tampering by using keystroke loggers to grab student credentials and then vote for himself. Matthew Weaver, 22, of Huntington Beach, Calif., stole almost 750...

Google Warns of Spike in Iranian Phishing Attacks

With a key election in Iran looming on Friday, Google officials say they have seen a major uptick in the volume of phishing attacks against users in Iran, possibly coming from the same group that was using fake Google certificates to attack Iranian targets in 2011 after the compromise of DigiNota...

The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to stand in European elections

Peter Sunde, the former spokesman for The Pirate Bay has announced he will run in the European Parliament elections next year. Sunde, will participate for the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party. The Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006, and in 2009 Christian Engström was the first member of...

Hacking United States politics and why India and China won the election

Paul F Renda going to begin a series on hacking the politics in the united states and why India and china won the past Presidential election. This eclectic hacker look will use partial differential equations, game theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and fractals. I am going to show unequivalently tha...

Open-Redirect Vulnerability, Fake Government URLs Duping Users

Spammers have recently taken advantage of an open-redirect vulnerability to phish users and trick them into clicking through links that appear to be coming from government .gov URLs. The scam relies on a malformed series of URLs that appear to be coming from 1.USA.gov, a collaboration between...

Deluge of Election-Related Spam, Threats Begins

It was only a matter of time before the inevitable wave of malicious, election-tinged spam began to rain down upon internet users. In the wake of last week’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it appears the floodgates have opened. According to ...