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May 10 2021
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Concerns mount over Biden's new cybersecurity executive order following Colonial Pipeline hack
Senior government officials are privately sounding the alarm over a new cybersecurity executive order President Joe Biden is poised to sign.
Biden vowed in April to take steps toward securing U.S. cyber-infrastructure and preventing future security breaches like the 2020 SolarWinds hack. The New York Times reported Sunday night, however, that some officials and lawmakers involved in the
Washington Examiner
Jul 10 2017
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Trump Walks Back Russian Cybersecurity Pact 12 Hours After Proposing It
Early Sunday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted his support for a new partnership with Russian President Vladimir Putin to craft an “impenetrable cyber security unit” that would work to prevent election hacking.
Some 12 hours later, those plans were dramatically scaled back as the president said even though he discussed them, they “can’t” happen.
HuffPost
Jan 14 2020
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A Cybersecurity Firm Responsible For A Report On Russia Hacking Burisma Has Ties To The 2016 DNC Hacks
The co-founder of a security firm behind reports suggesting Russia is targeting the company that employed Hunter Biden previously worked with a group at the center of Democratic National Committee email hacks in 2016, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis.
Area 1 co-founder Brad Darche worked as a consultant with CrowdStrike, a group responsible for not doing more to
The Daily Caller
Jun 05 2015
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US believes China behind cybersecurity breach affecting at least 4M federal employees
The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 23 2022
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Whistleblower Says Twitter Has ‘Egregious’ Cybersecurity Deficiencies
Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko accused the social media company of “egregious” cybersecurity failures in a whistleblower complaint dated July 6.
Zatko alleged he had seen “egregious deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy” while at Twitter. He said thousands of employee laptops contained copies of the platform’s source code
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The Daily Wire
Jul 21 2023
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AI will require ‘some new laws,’ Biden says, even as tech giants agree to safeguards
Realizing the promise of artificial intelligence by managing its risks will require “some new laws, regulations and oversight,” President Joe Biden said Friday, even as several tech companies agreed to new AI safeguards.
Amazon AMZN, +0.03%, Google GOOG, +0.65% GOOGL, +0.69%, Meta META, -2.73%, Microsoft MSFT, -0.89% and other companies voluntarily agreed to steps meant to ensure that
MarketWatch
Jul 12 2023
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Senators Want Answers About Pentagon's 'Heavy Reliance' on Microsoft
Lawmakers are demanding that Pentagon officials report within six months about how the military's increasing reliance on a single software vendor, Microsoft, will affect the nation's cybersecurity and competition between IT companies for defense contracts.
The Senate version of the annual defense authorization bill instructs Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Information Officer John
Newsweek
Jul 13 2023
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U.S. officials blame China for hack
U.S. officials say state-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft's cloud-based security to break into unclassified U.S. government email systems at an unspecified number of agencies, including the State Department. The extent of the hack was not immediately clear Wednesday, but a person familiar with the hack investigation said U.S. military and intelligence agencies were not among those
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Jul 12 2023
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Microsoft finds China-based hackers spying on government-linked email accounts
Microsoft disclosed in a blog post Tuesday night that a China-based hacking group gained access to an unspecified number of email accounts across approximately 25 organizations. Why it matters: Many of the accounts affected are tied to government agencies and individuals likely associated with those agencies, Microsoft said. • The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency also said in
Axios
Jul 12 2023
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U.S. government emails compromised by China-based espionage group
Over two dozen government agencies in Western Europe and the United States were hacked by a China-based espionage group, according to Microsoft and U.S. national security officials.
The hackers accessed Microsoft-powered email accounts at the agencies as part of a continued effort by China-based actors to spy on and steal sensitive government and corporate data. The hacking group, code-
CNBC