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Activists fight “cyber-security” bill that would give NSA more data
An online activist site has collected 300,000 signatures in opposition to a pending “cyber-security” bill that critics say would allow increased government spying on the Internet. The petition focuses on a bill by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), but his legislation is one of at least four proposals now being considered by Congress. According to Jerry […]
Mass exploitation of Ivanti VPNs is infecting networks around the globe
Hackers suspected of working for the Chinese government are mass exploiting a pair of critical vulnerabilities that give them complete control of virtual private network appliances sold by Ivanti, researchers said. As of Tuesday morning, security company Censys detected 492 Ivanti VPNs that remained infected out of 26,000 devices exposed to the Internet. More than […]
Sysadmin security fail: NSA finds Snowden hijacked officials’ logins
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the font of information security wisdom for the US defense and intelligence communities. But apparently, the NSA’s own network security is so weak that a single administrator was able to hijack the credentials of a number of NSA employees with high-level security clearances and use them to download data […]