Privacy, Hacking and Virus Alerts

"The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calls data breach "Exhibit A for why we must stop GOP from reversing the CFPB’s rule protecting your right to join class actions"

Let the Equifax hate begin.

"The first ones were discovered within an hour and 30 minutes. And none of these vulnerabilities has ever been found before, they’ll all new," said Harri Hursti, co- coordinator of the event.

The security firm, UpGuard, says the problem stemmed from a cloud server that a third-party vendor had misconfigured.

The malware, which researchers have dubbed CrashOverride, is known to have disrupted only one energy system — in Ukraine in December. In that incident, the hackers briefly shut down one-fifth of the electric power generated in Kiev.

Spread throughout the pages were barely visible yellow dots, each less than a millimeter in diameter, repeated over and over in the same rectangular pattern.

"The bad guys try hard, so we are motivated to try even harder."

It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to make their way into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack didn’t come through an email or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous document.

Put differently, we are — incredibly — inviting trouble. Our commercial interests and our national security diverge.