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U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday said a hacking group known as MuddyWater is part of an Iranian intelligence agency responsible for widespread online attacks across the world.

Chinese communists are villains, but it is American political leaders who have permitted them to be villainous.

The new research provides a weird little look at how online goons could mess with your documents, should they be so inclined.

By Caitlin OKane May 5, 2021 / 12:37 PM / CBS News A Florida mother and her teenage daughter each face up to 16 years in prison after rigging a high school homecoming court competition, officials announced on Tuesday. The daughter who, was 17 when the crime took place, recently turned 18 and will be tried as an adult.  50-year-old Laura Rose Carroll, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School in Pensacola, Florida, was arrested alongside her daughter, Emily R...

More than one in two Indian adults (59 per cent) experienced cybercrime in the last 12 months, as seven in 10 Indian adults (among those surveyed) believed that remote work has made it much easier for hackers and cybercriminals to take advantage of them, a new report revealed on Monday. More than 27 million Indian adults experienced identity theft in the past 12 months and 52 per cent of Indian adults admitted they dont know how to protect themselves from cybercrime, according to the 2021 Nor...

Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images) A hacker group claims to have recently broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada, a Silicon Valley startup that sells and manages security systems to thousands of organizations across the country. Advertisement Once inside the firm’s walls, the hackers were able to use its 150,000 live camera feeds to peer into the internal workings of countless organizations, including medical facilities, psychiatric hospitals, jails, schools and po...

One hacker decried "nonexistent and irresponsible" lack of security on cameras used inside hospitals, prisons and major companies.

While the hack doesn't pose the kind of national security threat as the more sophisticated SolarWinds campaign​, it can be an existential threat for victims who didn't install the patch in time.

Read more about White House says closely following Microsoft email breach by China hackers on Business Standard. The US government said it is closely following the breach of a Microsoft email application reportedly carried out by Chinese hackers, calling it an "active threat" with a "large number" of victims.

© Getty Images As cyber investigators continue to examine the SolarWinds attack, a more complicated picture of what actually happened has begun to emerge. The Acting Director of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Brandon Wales, said that federal investigators had found Russian intelligence agents alleged to have been behind the SolarWinds hack actually used a variety of techniques well beyond the eponymous compromised software. Wales added that Russian agen...