Accuracy in Media

Holy (crap)! That’s quite a hack: Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that […]

From the Free Beacon: Six months after China pledged to halt cyber espionage against the United States, Beijing’s hackers continue to conduct cyber attacks on government and private networks, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command told Congress. Despite a formal pledge made by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in September, “cyber operations from China are still targeting […]

Well, that’s not comforting. What if they could release the dam’s waters? That’s a scary thought. Photo by NashvilleCorps

Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital said the ransom was 40 bitcoins, or about $17,000.

That’s a long time, but they reached up to 93% of the federal employees affected by the security breach.

No accountability for the Obama administration, apparently: The Obama administration at the “last minute” on Tuesday declined to allow leading officials to testify before a classified House committee investigating a massive hack attack on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that led to the disclosure of millions of personal records, according to a leading lawmaker. […]

As Fox News reported: The FBI is looking into claims that CIA Director John Brennan’s personal AOL email was hacked, a law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News. An anonymous hacker, who spoke to the New York Post, earlier claimed to have breached Brennan’s personal account and had posted documents online, including a list of […]

OPM keeps losing data to hackers. So (not) comforting.

As the Free Beacon reported: A group of Russian hackers linked to Moscow’s government have for seven years been targeting intelligence information from governments and organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia, according to a new report from researchers at F-Secure. The hacking group, named “The Dukes,” employed nine “unique malware toolsets” to hack computer networks and […]

Fox News reported the following: A private industry IT security firm tells Fox News that personal data stolen over the span of several high-profile U.S. cyber breaches is being indexed by China’s intelligence service into a massive Facebook-like network. According to CrowdStrike founder Dmitri Alperovitch, Chinese hackers are using information gained from the breaches of […]