By Waqas

An Amazon customer in Germany under the European Union data protection law called GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requested the company to send all the data it stored on him but little did he know he was about to get his hands on a trove of 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger speaking in their home. The customer who […]

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US brings more indictments against a cyber espionage group operating in China, but what will they accomplish?

US brings more indictments against the APT10 cyber espionage group operating in China for its Operation Cloud Hopper campaign against managed service providers, but what will those indictments accomplish?

It makes it simple for attackers to find devices to take over and add to botnets.

The homeland security implications are significant: the two, working with Beijing-backed APT10, allegedly stole sensitive data from orgs like the Navy and NASA.

Risk scoring is a way of getting everyone on the same page with a consistent, reliable method of gathering and analyzing security data.

Authorities in the United States this week brought criminal hacking charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different "booter" or "stresser" sites -- attack-for-hire services that helped paying customers launch tens of thousands of digital sieges capable of knocking Web sites and entire network providers offline.

In an indictment unsealed this morning, the US ties China's state security agency to a widespread campaign of personal and corporate information theft.

In an indictment unsealed this morning, the US ties China's state security agency to a widespread campaign of personal and corporate information theft.