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DHS to Congress: The Russians Are Coming Back
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:17
A Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russian government-backed hackers targeted as many as 21 states during the 2016 presidential election.
Hackers attempted to penetrate Internet-connected systems related to the elections in up to 21 states, but they were successful only in a small number of them, said Samuel Liles, acting director of the cyber division of the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis.
Shadow Brokers tease more Windows exploits and cyberespionage data
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:16
A group of hackers that previously leaked alleged U.S. National Security Agency exploits claims to have even more attack tools in its possession and plans to release them in a new subscription-based service.
The group also has intelligence gathered by the NSA on foreign banks and ballistic missile programs, it said.
Malware in encrypted traffic uncovered with machine learning
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:14
Detecting malware activity in encrypted traffic was thought to be an impossible task, but machine learning appears to have led to a working technique.
The Kaggle data science community is competing to improve airport security with AI
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:12
Going through airport security is a universally painful experience. And despite being slow and invasive, the TSA doesn’t have a great record at catching threats. With the help of the Kaggle data science community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is hosting an online competition to build machine learning-powered tools that can augment agents, ideally making the entire system simultaneously more accurate and efficient.
'Russian hackers traded' passwords of senior British politicians and diplomats
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-06-23 01:11
Passwords belonging to British politicians, diplomats and senior police officers have been traded by Russian hackers, it has been reported.
Security credentials said to have belonged to tens of thousands of government officials, including 1,000 British MPs and parliamentary staff, 7,000 police employees and more than 1,000 Foreign Office staff were in the troves sold or swapped on Russian-speaking hacking sites.
