The database containing information on illegal immigrants living in New York will not be available to Donald Trump until his inauguration, which is scheduled for January 20, 2017. This was announced by New York Mayor Bill De Blasio after Trump's unexpected victory in the elections on November 8 ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected accusations that Russia was involved in hacking the computers of the US Democratic Party, saying that he knows “absolutely nothing” about it. According to Putin, at the state level, Russia does not engage in hacker attacks on other states. "And then,…
Now Internet users have access to the same crime database used by the New York police. The city authorities have unveiled a new digital version of CompStat, which will give the public “unprecedented” access to crime statistics in New York, writes the New York Post. An innovative technology called ...
Independent computer security expert Chris Vickery of Austin, Texas, found a database on the Internet that contains information on 191 million American voters. As Vickery told Forbes magazine, among other things, this database contains names, addresses, dates of birth, political affiliation ...
Foreign intelligence agencies, especially in China and Russia, are actively collecting and analyzing hacked American databases to identify US intelligence officers and agents, according to the Los Angeles Times. Among these bodies of information are security check files, airline data and medical forms ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia and China may have access to his emails. According to Kerry, such a situation is very likely, it should be taken seriously. Kerry did not reveal any evidence that his correspondence was hacked. The Secretary of State noted that the issue of the activities of Chinese hackers will be discussed ...
Hackers who broke into the computer systems of the federal agency, which is essentially the US government's human resources department, obtained the personal information of each employee, including Social Security numbers. The United States Government Employees Union announced this on Thursday. “Hackers stole employee data, including the Social Security numbers of every government employee...
The US FBI is investigating an incident involving a cybersecurity breach in one of the federal agencies, Reuters reports. It is noted that the hacking affected the data of at least 4 million former and current officials of the US federal departments. It is noted that the hacker attack could have originated from China. According to Associated ...