"The SolarWinds hack was a victory for our foreign adversaries and a failure for DHS," said Rob Portman, top Republican on the Senate homeland security committee. "We are talking about DHS's crown jewels."
The AP interviewed more than a dozen current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"The concerns raised by this story should not be understated," he said. "Even unclassified communication between sensitive parties can disclose a great deal of actionable intelligence."
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U-M Computer Chip MORPHEUS Defeats 500+ Hackers - DBusiness Magazine
MORPHEUS, a computer chip developed by computer science researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has defeated more than 500 hackers invited by the school to find its vulnerabilities.
The chip weathered a three-month virtual program the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) dubbed the Finding Exploits to Thwart Tampering (FETT) Bug Bounty without a single successful attack. Bug bounty programs by organizations or software developers offer compensation or other incentives to individuals who can find and report bugs or vulnerabilities in their systems.
Corporate doxing is on the rise: Here's how hackers are doing it and how to stop them -
Doxing an individual can be a time-consuming and ultimately fruitless process, but the potential payout for doxing corporate employees can be huge, making them a much more tempting target.
The doxing of individuals can be time-consuming and costly, and can result in little net gain for an attacker looking to financially capitalize.
Cybercriminals are using a variety of methods to harvest data and turn it against corporations in order to reroute bank transfers, steal paychecks, and perform other nefarious actions. None of them are new, unique or surprising, but they are tricky and can be hard to defend against.
SolarWinds Hackers Breached Homeland Security Officials Emails: Report
Many software vendors will be required to inform their federal government customers of any cybersecurity breach under a Biden administration executive order.
During Friday's Mad Money program, Jim Cramer told viewers his game plan for this week. Today, Cramer is looking for developments with China's labor situation and if any more negative news comes out with companies doing business there - like Nike .
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Hackers hit Harris in latest 'highly sophisticated' cyber attack
Harris Federation, which runs 49 schools, detected the attack on Saturday , and has been working through the weekend to resolve the issues.
A Schools Week investigation last week revealed at least three academy trusts have already been struck by the devastating cyber crime in March alone.
Harris today warned that the "highly sophisticated attack . . . will have significant impact on our academies but it will take time to uncover the exact details of what has or has not happened, and to resolve".
Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server | Ars Technica
A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said.
Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server over the weekend added a line that, if run by a PHP-powered website, would have allowed visitors with no authorization to execute code of their choice. The malicious commits here and here gave the code the code-injection capability to visitors who had the word "zerodium" in an HTTP header.
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Hackers Target University of Miami Health System Patients
(TNS) — The University of Miami is investigating a possible data breach that could compromise information belonging to patients in the University of Miami Health System, UHealth, the university said in a statement.
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