Apple removed VK's flagship social network VKontakte, often described as Russia's equivalent of Facebook, along with VK Music, VK Messenger, VK Video, Odnoklassniki and Mail.ru services, including its email application.
Once a new CISA director is in place, the agency will ramp up hiring efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers. The White House has not yet announced a nominee.
Ukraine's state-owned postal operator said it was experiencing disruptions to some of its app services due to a suspected cyberattack, but did not say who was behind it.
The continued use of the powerful data extraction product soon after the company in March 2021 said it would stop working with Russia suggests the firm has been unable to pull back its technology from authoritarian government customers, researchers say.
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The Department of Justice announced the “seizure of a cloud computing account” used by subsidiaries of the Huione Group, a conglomerate severed from the U.S. financial system last year.
An executive order signed Monday aims to accelerate the government's transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), a new generation of encryption designed to protect data from the powerful quantum computers expected in the future.
The so-called duty of care provision that was excluded would have mandated that online platforms take reasonable measures to prevent specific harms such as suicidal ideation, eating disorders and cyberbullying by changing algorithm and design features.
The incident occurred early Saturday when at least a dozen unauthorized alerts were sent through Brazil's Civil Defense Alert system, a platform designed to warn residents about imminent threats such as floods, landslides and other natural disasters.
Writing on LinkedIn, Edwards said that while he has not agreed with how the investigation into him has been conducted, he has come to accept that his position “has become untenable.”
The nonprofit Human Rights Watch obtained export licensing records covering 2018 through 2023, which show the Bulgarian government allowed the surveillance firm Circles to peddle the tech to law enforcement and intelligence agencies in several countries known for human rights abuses.
NCSC CEO Richard Horne warned that “kinetic targeting in any conflict tomorrow will be based on intelligence gathered today” and that nation-state adversaries were “prepositioning” throughout British critical infrastructure.
Authorities said scammers previously exploited the feature by posting fake exam questions before the test and later replacing them with the real questions, making it look like they had leaked the exam in advance.
Estonia will require additional security screening for emails sent from Russia’s .ru top-level domain before they reach government officials, according to the country's minister of justice and digital affairs.
The ban will apply to all “user-to-user platforms, whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material, alongside algorithms,” according to a press release from the government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Maine is still allowing companies to report breaches, but won’t make the portal easily available to the public until after it completes an audit of its procedures to stop such incidents, according to a press release from the Maine attorney general’s office.
According to customer complaints, the disruption affected a range of services used by businesses, leading to interruptions in cash register operations, difficulties selling certain regulated goods, loss of access to customer portals and corporate email and problems with electronic human resources document management systems and authentication using digital certificates.
According to the deputy prosecutor general, the ship’s officers have now been charged with “having damaged two subsea telecommunications cables and of having attempted to damage a total of eight other subsea connections.”
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