During the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the United States next week, the parties plan to sign a non-aggression agreement on critical infrastructure in peacetime, according to The New York Times. Earlier, US President Barack Obama threatened to significantly complicate bilateral relations, ...
Unauthorized access to classified information resulting from hacker attacks on computer systems by the US Government's Human Resources Office poses a "significant counterintelligence threat" and could lead to the declassification of US intelligence agents in foreign countries, a senior administration official said Thursday. Speaking to one of the committees ...
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 ...
Barack Obama's administration is developing a package of economic sanctions against a series of Chinese individuals and entities, which, according to the White House, are involved in hacker attacks on American institutions with the aim of stealing trade secrets. This is reported by the Washington Post with reference to ...
Among the data of 37 million users of the Ashley Madison portal, an account was found that may belong to Hunter Biden, the son of US Vice President Joseph Biden. Hunter Biden has already denied these reports, CNN reports. Scandals related to the Ashley Madison hack, intended for dating cheating spouses, ...
Telecommunications company Tecnilógica from Madrid has mapped the world with the data of 30 million users of the Ashley Madison website, which is used to search for one-time acquaintances and adultery. To do this, the developers used an array of data that hackers from the Impact Team posted on August 19 in ...
A group of UN governmental experts has prepared a recommendation document according to which twenty leading countries of the world have agreed on international information security, the use of cyber technologies for peaceful purposes and the prevention of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The signatory countries undertake to fight on their own territory with ...
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 ...
An insider scheme of hackers who were involved in stealing corporate messages and selling the information received was disclosed in the United States, Bloomberg reports, citing a source. According to the newspaper, at the moment nine members of the group have been identified, probably from Ukraine and Russia. They hacked the servers ...
The administration of US President Barack Obama decided to answer China to the theft of personal data of millions of American officials by hackers. It is not yet known exactly what the US response will be. The main option at the moment is to hack the Great Firewall of China. With his help, the Chinese authorities ...