Cyber Security News and Education
Encryption Crackdown – Attorney General Barr Calls for Access to Amrican’s Personal Electronics US Attorney General William Barr called for increased access to Americans’ personal electronic devices and argued that tech companies should be compelled […]
Tax Scams – Beware of Two New IRS Tax Scams The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning taxpayers about two new tax scams. Even though tax season and the height of tax scam season […]
Amazon solidly defeats a proposal to stop sales of facial recognition tech to police Amazon shareholders voted not to limit the sales of the company’s facial recognition technology to law enforcement and governmental agencies. They […]
Perceptics license plate reader technology hacked Perceptics, a US technology firm that sells land border security technologies to governments was hacked. Perceptics deals in border security vehicle data acquisition, commercial vehicle inspection, electronic toll collection, […]
List of Advanced Persistent Threat Groups. The hackers behind some of the most successful and well-known cyber attacks in the world Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are organized hacking and cyber intelligence actors, including individuals […]
CIA Set Up an Onion Site – Here’s How to Find It The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched a dark web website to expand and improve communications. The CIA launched a new website on […]
City of Baltimore, Maryland Hacked by Ransomware Again Baltimore, Maryland has once again been struck by another ransomware attack. The cyber attack began yesterday morning and is the second ransomware attack for Baltimore. It is […]
Stolen NSA Hacking Tools Were Used by Chinese Hackers Symantec released a post that concludes Chinese hackers acquired and used US government developed hacking tools earlier than previously thought. Cyber security experts have tracked China’s […]
Takeaways from William Barr’s Testimony on the Mueller Report Confused about how Russia hacked the 2016 election? US Attorney General William Barr testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was questioned about his opinions […]
Tax Day – Don’t Fall Victim to the Taxpayer Advocate Service Scam It’s tax day which means tax scammers are also in the final days of their seasonal push to take your tax refunds, steal […]