Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center
The Russian military has been jamming some U.S. military drones operating in the skies over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to four U.S. officials.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/russia-has-figured-out-how-jam-u-s-drones-syria-n863931
A fierce internal debate may undermine the company's bid for the JEDI program.
A pioneering fingerprint technique used to convict a drugs gang from a WhatsApp message "is the future" of how police approach evidence to catch criminals.
The United States Congress passed late last night a $1.3 trillion budget spending bill that also contained a piece of legislation that allows internal and foreign law enforcement access to user data stored online without a search warrant or probable cause.
Microsoft's updates for the Meltdown microprocessor mega-flaw inadvertently left users running Windows 7 64-bit systems open to a "way worse" flaw, a researcher has claimed.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/03/29/microsofts-windows-7-meltdown-patch-created-worse-flaw/
The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on. But as the city government's desktops, hard drives and printers flickered back to life for the first time in five days, residents still could not pay their traffic tickets or water bills online, or report potholes or graffiti
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/cyberattack-atlanta-ransomware.html
MOSQUITO is new technique devised by a team of researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University, led by the expert Mordechai Guri, to exfiltrate data from an air-gapped network.
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/70192/hacking/mosquito-attack-airgapped-networks.html
The police chief of Tempe, Arizona, where a woman was struck and killed by one of Uber's self-driving cars Sunday, says the ride-sharing company is likely not at fault for the accident, following a preliminary investigation.
Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, and its related company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, pilfered data on 50 million Facebook users and secretly kept it, according to two reports in The New York Times and The Guardian. The apparent misuse of Facebook data-and the social media giant's failure to
https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-50m-facebook-users-data/
The growing popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is generating curiosity - and concern - among security specialists. Crypto mining software has been found on user machines, often installed by botnets. Organizations need to understand the risks posed by this software and what actions, if any, should be taken.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/02/cryptocurrency-mining-threat.html
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