The White House | June 01 2017 (Video Above) – Reuters | June 01 2017: President Donald Trump, in phone calls on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Theresa May, personally explained his decision to withdraw the Read more…
Defense One | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 1, 2017: The Facebook algorithm that auto-tags people in photographs might be slightly creepy, but also of interest to the intelligence community. The IC’s research and development unit is hosting a new contest in search of the best facial recognition algorithms that Read more…
Waterworld | By: Alanna Maya | Assistant Editor: Access to safe drinking water is a global crisis, which is why developing new, innovative ways to convert river water, wastewater and agricultural waste into clean water is critical. Thanks to new innovations in the field of treatment, promising technologies could eliminate Read more…
WaterWorld | By Sarah Fister Gale: Water security is a global issue and even in the United States, with our rich and diverse water resources, once relied-upon water systems are now at risk. California is slowly recovering from a five-year drought, the Colorado River is beginning to run dry in Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By Richard L. Cassin | Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 8:02AM: Shearman & Sterling has published a client alert a lot of us need these days — “Transacting Business During a Corruption Investigation.” Why an alert about doing business during an investigation? Because investigations can continue Read more…
Nextgov | By: Heather Timmons | May 31, 2017: U.S. President Donald Trump continues to rail against press coverage of leaks from his administration and government agencies, most recently accusing the news media—offering no evidence—of reporting on lies and calling them leaks. But there’s no sign the leaks are going Read more…
The FCPA Blog |By: Richard L. Cassin |Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:08AM: The son of a former Prime Minister of Gabon was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing government officials in Africa. Samuel Mebiame, 43, was a Read more…
The Guardian |By: Fiona Harvey | Thursday 1 June 2017 00.01 BST: Intensive farming cited as main reason for destroying natural barriers to deluge and making low lying areas more vulnerable to floods. Only a tenth of England’s extensive floodplains are now fit for purpose – 90% no longer function Read more…
Reuters | By: Yeganeh Torbati |Thu Jun 1, 2017 | 5:45am EDT: The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. The new questions, part of an Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Alexandre de Juniac | May 30, 2017 3:36 p.m. ET: Airlines have considerable expertise on safety and security matters. Governments should tap it. As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security considers expanding its ban on laptops and other large portable electronic devices from the Read more…
Mining Weekly | By: Martin Creamer | 31st May 2017: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The South African government is refusing to grant an exemption to diamond mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) relating to the exportation of diamonds to neighbouring Botswana for aggregation, Mining Weekly Online can today report. Aggregation Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | 31 May 2017: A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 flying transcontinental made an emergency landing May 30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan after a passenger’s laptop computer emitted smoke. Flight 915 operating from New York JFK to San Francisco was diverted “following reports of Read more…
AEC Magazine |Published: 30 May 2017: Built in 1949, the Pinto Creek Bridge is a historic crossing on Highway 60, an hour and a half east of Phoenix, Arizona at the foothills of the Tonto National Forest. Built as part of President Roosevelt’s public works initiative, the steel arch bridge Read more…
Vox | By: Zeeshan Aleem May 26, 2017, 8:50am EDT: BEIJING — In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used a 60 Minutes segment to demonstrate his company’s newest innovation: a drone that he said would be capable of delivering packages to a customer’s doorsteps within 30 minutes of an order. Read more…
Reuters | By: Eric Auchard | Wed May 31, 2017 | 12:03pm EDT: Veteran espionage researcher Jon DiMaggio was hot on the trail three months ago of what on the face of it looked like a menacing new industrial espionage attack by Russian cyber spies. All the hallmarks were there: Read more…
FINRA | May 2017: FINRA has received a number of calls recently from individuals who have received unexpected checks, some from organizations whose names are household words. To those callers, we offer a concise response: Don’t cash the check, it’s almost certainly counterfeit. In many instances, the name of a Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Selva Ozelli | Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 8:22AM: Bill Steinman recently wrote a post for the FCPA Blog about compliance risks in offset obligations. I’d like to continue that discussion, this time with some information about international cooperation to clean up offset transactions, and Read more…
Financial Times | 31 May 2017: Businesses warn rules will increase costs and leave them more vulnerable to spying. China’s first cyber security law will increase costs for multinationals, leave them vulnerable to industrial espionage and give Chinese companies an unfair advantage, business representatives and analysts have warned. Aspects of Read more…
NextGov | By: Caitlin Fairchild | May 26, 2017 Password manager service 1Password has introduced a new feature designed to protect the privacy of people traveling abroad. The Trump administration has attempted to introduce new security procedures for people coming into the United States, such as requiring them to hand Read more…
Security Today | May 26, 2017: After the summer rush, TSA may change up their security procedures. Travelers should expect more changes at airport security checkpoint lanes in the coming months, according to an article by The Wall Street Journal. The Transportation Security Administration has been playing around with new Read more…
Reuters | By: David Gray |Tue May 30, 2017 | 1:31am EDT: The Australian government has delayed the date of the first payment of its A$6.2 billion ($4.60 billion) bank tax by three months and excluded some liabilities from the levy, according to proposed legislation released on Tuesday. The legislation Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | May 26, 2017: On Friday, May 26, on what was expected to be one of the hottest days of the year, solar panels in the UK generated a record amount of power, enough to meet almost 25 percent of demand. Read more…
Xinhua| 2017-05-30 06:25:43|Editor: Zhang Dongmiao: NAIROBI – Robust involvement in activities that promote social good and ecological sustainability has become the defining feature of Chinese firms that have invested in Kenya, a report said on Monday. The 2016 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, launched by the China Communications Construction Company Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Max Colchester | May 29, 2017 | 2:20 p.m. ET: Shareholders accepted 82 pence per share, well below £2 to £2.30 they paid during 2008 rights issue. Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC investors reached a settlement with the bank Monday in a dispute related Read more…
Reuters | World News | By; Tom Miles | Mon May 29, 2017 | 3:33pm EDT: Britain is undergoing a subtle but alarming shift towards criminalizing peaceful protest and free expression, said a U.N. report on Monday that likened it to a “Big Brother” state of surveillance and suspicion. The Read more…
Tribune De Geneve: Financial Spot: The President of the Swiss Bankers Association expresses concern about the automatic exchange of tax information with the United States. Since New Year, Swiss banks collect data on the assets of the majority of their foreign customers in order to send them to the federal Read more…
Reuters | By: Dustin Volz | Technology News | Fri May 26, 2017 | 11:56am EDT: Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Adam Janofsky | May 25, 2017 11:02 a.m. ET: As companies rush to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the United Kingdom’s data regulator said Thursday that businesses must be prepared to “tell it all and tell it fast” if they experience Read more…
Wall Street Journal | Deloitte | Risk & Compliance Journal: Twenty years ago, the typical consumer had only one password—for email—and it was likely an easily guessed word or name. Today, users visit countless online resources and seem to create a new account every few days. Whether it’s to access Read more…
The FCPA Blog: By: Richard L. Cassin and Qui Tam | Friday, May 26, 2017 at 8:22AM: A doctor who worked for a hospital in Missouri will received $5.4 million from the settlement of a false claims lawsuit he filed against his employer and another hospital. Dr. Viran Roger Holden Read more…
About The Video Above: People would care more about privacy if they knew how exposed they already are online, says WSJ Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler. In an experiment, he showed a handful of strangers their own personal info—and managed to shock every one. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Read more…
Financial Times | May 26th 2017: The Blackstone-Saudi deal can help the president deliver his campaign promise. When the White House caravan headed to the Arabian Desert last weekend, Donald Trump’s team were keen to score big “wins”. Stephen Schwarzman, head of the president’s business advisory council, duly obliged: on Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Paul J. Davies |May 25, 2017 9:14 a.m. ET: Long battle over update to Basel capital rules is finishing closer to U.S. demands If walking away from the table was a U.S. tactic in negotiations over global bank capital rules, it appears to have Read more…
Reuters | Business News | Thu May 25, 2017 | 7:23pm EDT: Saudi Aramco plans to spend $18 billion in the next five years to expand its operations in the Americas, focusing on its U.S. oil refining subsidiary Motiva Enterprises, Motiva said on Thursday. Motiva (MOTIV.UL) called the $18 billion Read more…
Reuters | Cyber Risk | Thu May 25, 2017 | 12:51pm EDT: A newly found flaw in widely used networking software leaves tens of thousands of computers potentially vulnerable to an attack similar to that caused by WannaCry, which infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide, cybersecurity researchers said on Thursday. Read more…
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The Financial Times | May 25 2017: Latest step in watchdog’s assault on Washington’s ‘political intelligence’ industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged that an alleged four-man insider trading ring had turned confidential government information about Medicare reimbursement rates into lucrative healthcare stock tips. Christopher Worrall, 39, a Read more…
Financial Times | 25 May 2017: British security officials consider holding back sensitive information from America. British security officials investigating the Manchester terror attack are considering withholding sensitive information from Washington after a series of damaging leaks they fear are endangering British lives. Such a move would break with years Read more…
The Washington Post | By: By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg | May 23 2017: Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday. The Read more…
The Washington Post | Opinion | May 24th 2017: This newspaper’s legendary former publisher, Philip Graham, famously described journalism as the business of writing the “first rough draft of history.” This week, as President Trump gave a historic speech in Saudi Arabia before the leaders of more than 50 Muslim-majority Read more…
The Washington Post | May 25 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not reveal meetings with Russian officials when he applied for his security clearance to serve as the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official. Sessions came under fire earlier this year for not disclosing to the Senate Judiciary Committee during Read more…
Reuters | Politics | Wed May 24, 2017 | 12:25pm EDT: Democrats on a U.S. of House of Representatives panel have asked Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) to provide information on whether any accounts connected to President Donald Trump have ties to Russia, adding another dimension to probes into connections between Moscow Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | By: Jack Stubbs | Wed May 24, 2017 | 11:35am EDT: Russia’s postal service was hit by Wannacry ransomware last week and some of its computers are still down, three employees in Moscow said, the latest sign of weaknesses that have made the country a Read more…
American Affairs Journal | By: Travis Kavulla: Electricity is an input in virtually everything we do as a modern society. Few Americans remember what it was like to live without it and its attendant benefits on quality of life, labor productivity, and human health. Electricity is today largely taken for Read more…
Rotor And Wing International | By: S.L. Fuller | May 23, 2017: A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., recently ruled that the FAA cannot require unmanned aircraft system (UAS) hobbyists to register their drones under a December 2015 rule. No registration means no information and no efficient way Read more…
Norton Rose Fulbright Report | Executive Summary: We have analysed the substance of a broad range of national anti-corruption strategies. Our purpose in doing so has been to extract lessons and insights, as best we can, that can guide leaders responsible for developing their own national strategies into making better Read more…
Financial Times | 24 May 2017: Criminal gangs cost Mexican state oil company $1bn a year through stolen petrol. José Antonio González Anaya, the turnround economist at the helm of Pemex, flips open his iPad and pores over footage shot by a drone. Taken at midnight in central Mexico some Read more…
Data & Society Research Institute | By: Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Internet subcultures take advantage of the current media ecosystem to manipulate news frames, set agendas, and propagate ideas: Far-right groups have developed techniques of “attention hacking” to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Rachel Weiner | May 23 at 3:38 PM: A lawsuit challenging electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency will go forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Wikimedia can now make the case that the NSA is unconstitutionally spying on Americans though a program called Read more…
Defense One | By: Mohana Ravindranath | May 22, 2017: While the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency keeps its operations secret, it’s looking into the some of the country’s flashiest technology hotbeds for new ideas. The spy agency, whose mapping projects are used in combat support and general intelligence operations, has been Read more…
Bankingtech.com | By: Antony Peyton | 23 May, 2017: Corporate treasurers have a moment to treasure as Swift has unveiled its new cross-border payments “Tracker” for real-time tracing. Swift says Tracker is the “cornerstone” of its global payments innovation (gpi) initiative – which went live in February – with the Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Tom Ewing | May 22, 2017: In the U.K., National Grid (NG) is the utility that owns the high voltage electricity network in England and Wales. It is also one of four British gas distribution companies. It’s a big player — “joining everything up” (NG Read more…
Reuters | Cyber Risk | By: Jack Stubbs | MOSCOW | Mon May 22, 2017 | 1:57pm EDT: Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning to target European lenders before their arrest, investigators and sources with knowledge of Read more…
2017 OECD Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum: Global Standard for Payment Disclosure Introduction To The Report: The need for globally applicable transparency and anti-corruption legislation gained momentum after the global credit crisis of 2007/2008 that was tied to losses from opaque leveraged mortgage-backed securities, which were hidden in tax havens. It Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin |Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7:28AM: The U.S. Senate voted in February to repeal an SEC rule that would have required oil and gas and mining companies to disclose each year all of their payments to foreign governments for exploration and production Read more…
Pacific Institute | Water Conflict Chronology List | Full List Shows 400 entries from 3000 BC to 2017: Below is a very small sample of recorded incidents – to see full details in the full list, please click here. Date Parties Involved Basis of Conflict Violent or In the Context Read more…
Tribune De Geneve | May 21 2017: Switzerland-United States The question of the confidentiality of bank data is not settled, one year from the entry into force of the automatic exchange of information. According to the president of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) Herbert Scheidt, there is a risk that Read more…
Reuters | Guardian | Mon May 22, 2017 | 12:20am EDT: Leaked Facebook Inc. documents show how the social media company moderates issues such as hate speech, terrorism, pornography and self-harm on its platform, the Guardian reported, citing internal guidelines seen by the newspaper. New challenges such as “revenge porn” Read more…
Reuters | Sat May 20, 2017 | 12:19pm EDT: U.S. private equity firm Blackstone (BX.N) and Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday they planned to create a $40 billion vehicle to invest in infrastructure projects, mainly in the United States. Blackstone and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) Read more…
Source: Xinhua | 2017-05-21 15:39:21 | Editor: MJ: The recent WannaCry ransomware outbreak across the world is the latest alarm about cybersecurity that demands immediate efforts at different levels, including international cooperation. It has been found that measures as simple as official Microsoft patch installation and security software update can Read more…
ESR | Latest News: How can past criminal case data help justice today and in the future? ESR’s Forensic Intelligence project is currently developing ways to enhance the value of forensic science to the justice system. The six month pilot project is a collaboration between ESR’s Jeff Foote and Graeme Read more…
Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-20 20:00:42|Editor: Song Lifang: New Zealand is in no way insulated from the global growth in antimicrobial resistance that is predicted to kill more than 10 million people worldwide every year by 2050 and to have major impacts on animal health, the Royal Society of New Zealand has Read more…
Source: Xinhua| 2017-05-21 03:29:21|Editor: Yamei: Stanford University electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic and colleagues at her laboratory are working on new materials that could become the basis for quantum computing. While silicon transistors in traditional computers push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros, quantum computers work by Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | Fri May 19, 2017 | 3:31pm EDT: Ford Motor Co said on Friday it would delve into the growing arena of “over-the-air” software updates, adding Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to its Sync 3-equipped 2016 vehicles for the first time via a wireless software update. Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | By: Andrew Torchia | Sun May 21, 2017 | 11:02am EDT: The world’s largest private equity fund, backed by Japan’s Softbank Group and Saudi Arabia’s main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Betsy Otto | Suzanne Ozment | May 16, 2017: Natural infrastructure like healthy forests can support clean water. America’s water infrastructure is in a state of disrepair, as evidenced by disasters such as the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan and dangerous flooding at the Read more…
Reuters | Cyber Risk | By: Eric Auchard | Fri May 19, 2017 | 5:13pm EDT: French researchers said on Friday they had found a last-chance way for technicians to save Windows files encrypted by WannaCry, racing against a deadline as the ransomware threatens to start locking up victims’ computers Read more…
Privacy Laws & Business | May 19 2017: The EU Council’s Maltese Presidency’s progress report on the EU Commission’s proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation reveals that while Member States are still preparing their national positions, some delegations are already asking for greater flexibility. Some Member States’ delegations think that the Read more…
The White House | Washington | December 29, 2005: MEMORANDUM FOR WILLIAM LEONARD – Director, Information Security Oversight Office: SUBJECT: ADJUDICATIVE GUIDELINES The President has approved the attached revision of the Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information as recommended unanimously by the NSC’s PCC on Records Read more…
Creating an Insider Threat Program – Adjusting to NISPOM Change 2 | By: Christopher Burgess / Jun 13, 2016: Change 2 to the NISPOM requires all contractors to set up a formal insider threat program. Counterespionage capabilities will now be the norm within cleared contractor workforces. “Trust but verify.” It’s Read more…
Defense One | By: Lindy Kyzer | May 18, 2017: If you have spent any time in Washington recently, you’re probably quite familiar with the ‘If you see something say something’ slogan promoted by the Homeland Security Department. For security clearance holders, the slogan is now more than a catchphrase. Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Graham Warwick | May 15 – 28 2017: Airbus, Boeing and Lockheed push to break into the commercial unmanned—aircraft market the growing commercial unmanned aircraft market, but rather than developing new vehicles they are targeting the business of providing services to large customers. Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dave Michaels | WASHINGTON | May 17, 2017 1:32 p.m. ET: Finra to expand use of report cards to reduce manipulation. Wall Street is cracking down on a common, manipulative trading technique after its self-regulatory organization began grading brokers on how much bad behavior Read more…
Reuters | Technology News | By: Joel Schectman | WASHINGTON | Wed May 17, 2017 | 6:50pm EDT: A bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would require the U.S. National Security Agency to inform representatives of other government agencies about security holes it finds in software like the one that Read more…
Defense One | By: Echo Huang Yinyin | May 16, 2017: In the name of safeguarding its 1.4 billion people, China has been collecting biometric information from millions of people whom it deems potential threats—among them, Uyghurs, migrant workers, and college students—as part of national DNA database. China’s Ministry of Read more…
Reuters | Business News | Wed May 17, 2017 | 5:33am EDT: China invests $3.98 billion in Belt and Road countries over Jan-April: commerce ministry China’s non-financial outbound direct investment in 45 countries related to the Belt and Road initiative over the first four months of 2017 was $3.98 billion, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Natalia Drozdiak – Updated May 16, 2017 8:50 a.m. ET: Watchdog claims social media giant’s privacy policy breaches French rules France’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday slapped Facebook Inc. with a €150,000 ($165,616) fine on allegations the social media giant’s privacy policy breaches French law, Read more…
The Washington Post | May 16 2017: Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on a Pacific island Henderson Island, an uninhabited atoll in the South Pacific, is so isolated that it’s one of the few places in the world “whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence.” Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brian Fung | May 16 2017: The hacking group that leaked the bugs that enabled last week’s global ransomware attack is threatening to make public even more computer vulnerabilities in the coming weeks — potentially including “compromised network data” pertaining to the nuclear or missile Read more…
The Washington Post |By: Ellen Nakashima | Craig Timberg | May 16 2017: When the National Security Agency began using a new hacking tool called EternalBlue, those entrusted with deploying it marveled at both its uncommon power and the widespread havoc it could wreak if it ever got loose. Some Read more…
Report: Is Your Compliance Program Ready For A Multipolar World? Introduction To The Report: With political volatility at home and abroad, it’s tempting to assume that the days of escalating Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption (ABAC) enforcement are over. However, the facts tell a different story. The United States is doubling down Read more…
Fox News | By: Elizabeth Llorente | May 15, 2017: The GPS has increasingly become a drug dealer’s new partner in crime. Drug-smuggling groups are relying on the device to keep tabs on drug packages as they wind their way through Central America to the United States, according to published Read more…
Wall Street Journal | Joe Flint | May 15, 2017 6:38 p.m. ET: CEO says hackers claim to have stolen unreleased film, threaten to release it if not paid ransom. A hacker or hackers claim to have stolen an unreleased film from Walt Disney Co. DIS -0.51% and threatened to Read more…
Financial Times | May 16 2017: The ransomware attack shows that the internet’s age of innocence is over. The other evening I saw part of the 1969 film The Italian Job and it set me thinking. Not about the balance of payments, the Common Market or avoiding a cliff edge Read more…
Financial Times | 16 May 2017: Tool dubbed EsteemAudit available on dark web after impact of WannaCry attack. Criminal hacking groups have repurposed a second classified cyber weapon stolen from US spies and have made it available on the so-called dark web after the success of the WannaCry attack that Read more…
Financial Times | Associated Free Press | May 16 2017: Records were shared with the Google-owned AI company to trial Streams health app. The National Health Service, Britain’s largest employer and one of the biggest in the world, will pay a large bill towards the levy. DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial Read more…
Microsoft | RSA Conference 2017: From Microsoft Blog: This year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco brings the world’s security professionals together to discuss cybersecurity at a critical time. The past year has witnessed not just the growth of cybercrime, but a proliferation in cyberattacks that is both new and disconcerting. Read more…
Financial Times | May 15 2017: Group says WannaCry attack is a ‘wake-up call’ in strongly-worded blog post To read article in Financial Times – please click here. From The Original Blog By Brad Smith Of Microsoft: The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from Read more…
Reuters | World News | By: David Lawder | Washington | Sat May 13, 2017 | 10:25pm EDT: The U.S. Treasury is considering all of its available tools to deny North Korea access to the international financial system to rein in its nuclear weapons and missile development programs, a senior Read more…
The New York Times | By: Jane Perlez & Yufan Huang | May 13, 2017: Chinese workers and engineers at a tunnel being created near Vang Vieng, Laos, as part of a $6 billion Chinese rail project that will connect eight Asian countries. Adam Dean for The New York Times Read more…
Financial Times: May 14 2017: Sensitive data exposed by deep flaws at the heart of the interconnected global digital economy Authorities around the world are scrambling to tackle one of the most virulent cyber attacks to date, as fears mount over the safety of huge amounts of sensitive data, ranging Read more…
UK Gov – National Cyber Security Centre | 13th May 2017: Media reports today have rightly praised the efforts of MalwareTech to tackle the Wannacry cyber attack. The NCSC has been working in collaboration with a number organisations in the cyber security community, including MalwareTech and 2SEC4, to understand and Read more…
22-year-old spots ‘kill switch’ and helps delay spread of virus Below: Article By MalwareTech Security Researcher Who Found The Kill Switch: How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks – May 13, 2017 MalwareTech ms17-010, ransowmare, worm 168 So finally I’ve found enough time between emails and Skype calls to Read more…
Financial Times: May 14 2017: Cyber attack exploited vulnerability in ‘retired’ software that is still in use Microsoft has taken the rare step of issuing a fix for versions of Windows it had previously “retired”, in an attempt to halt the global spread of the malware that hit the UK’s Read more…
Financial Times: Designers super-charged ransomware using tools leaked by US National Security Agency Dozens of organisations and networks worldwide have been hit by a cyber weapon known as WannaCry. Already it has proved itself to be one of the most virulent and potentially destructive cyber attacks ever observed. What does Read more…
Fox News | Published May 12, 2017: Cyber attacks that hit 74 countries across Europe and Asia Friday, impacting the public health system in Britain, apparently involved a leaked hacking tool from the National Security Agency. The attack used ransomware, which is malware that encrypts data and locks a user from their data until they pay a ransom. The tool, which was leaked by a group known as Shadow Brokers, had been stolen from the N.S.A. as part of a wide swath of tools illegally released in 2016.
The Washington Post | May 13 2017: Computers around the world are suffering an attack from malicious software. The compromised computers have been hit by “ransomware” — software that encrypts the computer’s hard drive so that all the information on it is unavailable, and refuses to release it until a Read more…
The Washington Post | By Amanda Erickson | May 12 2017: Worldwide hack exploits flaw identified in leaked NSA document. A massive cyberattack hit tens of thousands of computers in dozens of nations. It was first reported in England — hackers gained access to the National Health Service computers, effectively Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Hayley Tsukayama | May 12 at 6:52 PM: Are you one of those people who ignores prompts to update your Windows system? Well, Friday’s massive international cyberattack may give you the best reason of all to hit “update” when prompted. Microsoft on Friday said in Read more…
Reuters | By: Dustin Volz | Washington | Cyber Risk | Sat May 13, 2017 | 7:17am EDT: A global cyber attack on Friday renewed concerns about whether the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries’ intelligence services too often hoard software vulnerabilities for offensive purposes, rather than quickly alerting Read more…