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Destructive Attacks Surged in 2020 for Financial Institutions Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine The tech giant’s Modern Bank Heists 4.0 report was compiled from interviews with over 120 CISOs and security leaders from some of the world’s biggest banks. It revealed that attackers are becoming increasingly adept at circumventing incident responders — in fact, counter incident response happened 63% of the time over the past year. This includes activities such as blocking events from hitting SIEM systems, disabling security tools, clearing logs, manipulating t...

US Blacklists 7 Chinese Supercomputer Entities May 5, 2021 Twitter Get Permission Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce this week placed seven Chinese supercomputer organizations on the Entity List, which effectively bars them from receiving supplies or components from American companies. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo notes that the high-performance computing technologies developed by these entities could be used in weapons of mass destruction programs. "Supercomputing capabilities are vital for the development of many - perhaps almost all - modern weapons...

On the heels of President Biden introducing his American Rescue Plan (pictured here), the American Jobs Plan is a national infrastructure initiative that will have a palpable impact on cybersecurity. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) President Biden on Wednesday announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, offering a broad range of spending targets – including fixing roads and bridges, planting a nationwide electric vehicle charging network, greening the power grid, and rebuilding schools. Cybersecurity was not specifically mentioned as part of the infrastructure plan, but t...

Get Permission A pair of U.S. intelligence agency reports released Tuesday conclude that Russia and Iran attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election via disinformation campaigns. But they found no attempt by foreign hackers to directly manipulate vote tabulations or results. The reports - one from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the other from the Department of Homeland Security - do note, however, that hackers from Russia, China and Iran cracked the security of networks associated with campaigns and candidates and accessed some data. "We identified sever...

Get Permission A pair of U.S. intelligence agency reports released Tuesday conclude that Russia and Iran attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential election via disinformation campaigns. But they found no attempt by foreign hackers to directly manipulate vote tabulations or results. The reports - one from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the other from the Department of Homeland Security - do note, however, that hackers from Russia, China and Iran cracked the security of networks associated with campaigns and candidates and accessed some data. "We identified sever...