by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 31, 2024 | Security
The U.S. Treasury Department was confirmed to have its computers and documents compromised by Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat hackers in an attack targeted at its BeyondTrust Remote Support software-as-a-service instance just over a week after the...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 31, 2024 | Security
The US Department of the Treasury has admitted that miscreants were in its systems, accessing documents in what has been called a “major incident.” A letter shared by Reuters with the Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 31, 2024 | Security
GitHub has a problem with inauthentic “stars” used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar to “Like” buttons on social media sites,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 31, 2024 | Security
The Chinese government’s intrusions into America’s telecommunications and other critical infrastructure networks this year appears to signal a shift from cyberspying as usual to prepping for destructive attacks. The FBI and other US federal agencies rang...
by Syndicated News Feed | Dec 31, 2024 | Security
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to secure patients’ health data following a surge in massive healthcare data leaks. These stricter...
