“Russia is the hurricane, and China is climate change,” a top U.S. cybersecurity official said Tuesday, underscoring White House warnings about the long-term cyberespionage threat posed by Beijing.
Tech companies — including several global VPN providers — and privacy advocates are bristling at new cyber requirements they say could jeopardize the security of Indian citizens.
In its first-ever report for the Department of Homeland Security, a group of top government and industry cyber experts said the Log4j vulnerability triggered “one of the most intensive cybersecurity community responses in history” last December — and it’s far from over.
Finland offers a model of how a Western democracy can harden its vital industries against cyberattacks while resisting hybrid conflict and information operations, but can other countries follow suit?
The U.S. Justice Department last week softened its stance on prosecuting hackers under a decades-old law. Will the updates thaw DOJ’s relations with hacking communities famed for testing limits?
About 80,000 companies that sell to the U.S. military will need to pass a cybersecurity audit before they can bid for business under rules the Defense Department plans to impose next year. But many small defense contractors aren’t prepared for the brave new world of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
The newly discovered Pipedream malware is aimed at American energy companies’ critical networks with alarming precision. Though it was caught before it could be used, the hacking tool’s emergence against the backdrop of war in Ukraine has drawn stark warnings from the U.S. and its allies.
Cybersecurity officials in the U.S. and Ukraine have exposed two powerful hacking tools aimed at the industrial control systems that underpin critical energy networks.
Every two years, the electricity industry runs a stress test designed to find and fix gaps in the North American grid’s cyber and physical defenses. The latest GridEx event presaged a blitz of real-world hacking threats that have kept U.S. power providers on high alert.
A government-backed push in Ukraine to get grassroots support for hacking Russia is raising legal and ethical questions.