Lawsuits may decide whether most digital assets are illegal securities offerings. If you have paid casual attention to crypto news over the past few years, you probably have a sense that the crypto market is unregulated—a tech-driven Wild West in which the rules of traditional finance do not apply. If you were Ishan Wahi, however, you would probably not have that sense. Wahi worked at Coinbase, a leading crypto exchange, where he had a view into which tokens the platform planned to list for trading—an event that causes those...
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US Government declassifies cybersecurity subjects they want you to learn about, and is hoping to pay you to learn them Recent initiatives, in response to a scathing study highlighting the lack of workforce pools capable of helping the country’s digital defenses, see the government releasing information about the areas on its wish list to prime the cybersecurity education pipeline. It can’t tell you everything, but hopes to reveal just enough for prospective students’ and educators’ appetites to pump those subjects into curricula willy-nilly, to boost future tech worker pools.If...
China uses personal, business and political relationships to gather information and influence actions. U.S. and UK government agencies urge caution. In an apparent, concerted effort to spread the word on the threat posed by China to governments at the state and local level as well as businesses of all sizes, the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Centre (NSCS), issued a “Safeguarding Our Future” bulletin. “Protecting Government and Business Leaders at the U.S. State and Local Level from People’s Republic of China (PRC) Influence Operations” differs from previous warnings on...
The government of Ukraine on Sunday formally accused Russia of masterminding the attacks that targeted websites of public institutions and government agencies this past week. “All the evidence points to the fact that Russia is behind the cyber attack,” the Ministry of Digital Transformation said in a statement. “Moscow continues to wage a hybrid war and is actively building forces in the information and cyberspace.” The purpose of the attack, said the ministry, “is not only to intimidate society,” but to also “destabilize the situation in Ukraine by stopping the work...
In January 2022, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts detected a wave of targeted attacks on military-industrial complex enterprises and public institutions in several countries. In the course of our research, we were able to identify over a dozen of attacked organizations. The attack targeted industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments in several East European countries (Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine), as well as Afghanistan. The attackers were able to penetrate dozens of enterprises and even hijack the IT infrastructure of some, taking control of systems...
A new investigation has revealed rare screenshots of NSO Group’s Pegasus iPhone spyware in action, showing off its user interface, capabilities, and more. The screenshots depict a prototype version of Pegasus meant for use by Israeli police. Some of the spyware’s abilities include reading WhatsApp messages, activating a phone’s microphone, and recording incoming or outgoing calls. Watch @Seytonic’s Quick overview of the latest on Pegasus: It isn’t clear if the version of Pegasus in the screenshots is the same as the ones used by government entities across the globe to surveil activists, dissidents, and...
The United States’ federal court system “faced an incredibly significant and sophisticated cyber security breach, one which has since had lingering impacts on the department and other agencies.” That quote comes from congressional representative Jerrold Lewis Nadler, who uttered them on Thursday in his introductory remarks to a House Committee on the Judiciary hearing conducting oversight of the Department of Justice National Security Division (NSD). Nadler segued into the mention of the breach after mentioning the NSD’s efforts to defend America against external actors that seek to attack its...
A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion. Emmanuel Macron secretly aided Uber lobbying in France, texts reveal Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne Company used ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data Former Uber CEO told executives ‘violence guarantees success’ The unprecedented leak to The Guardian of more than 124,000 documents – known as the Uber files – lays bare...
Though the information age has revolutionized the way we work, it has also directly resulted in businesses becoming susceptible to cyber attacks. In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, even more, resulting in many of us working from home full-time. With such an unexpected and colossal shift, cyber crime skyrocketed. Working from home may be beneficial for some businesses, but most homes have weaker security measures, leaving data ripe for targeting. It is essential that companies provide their employees with information or training on...
In a predominantly bipartisan vote, the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Act was passed by the House of Representatives on the evening of June 21, 2022. The bill, sponsored by Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) establishes within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) an initiative to provide the cybersecurity workforce with no-cost training related to securing industrial control systems. These information systems are used to control industrial processes such as manufacturing, product handling, production and distribution. Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Act This bill will supplement an already impressive array of...
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