The U.S. government on Tuesday took sweeping action against four Iranian nationals, accusing them of participating in hacking operations that targeted the U.S. Treasury and State departments, defense contractors and two New York-based companies on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). All four were indicted and charged with conspiracy to commit computer fraud, conspiracy

Avideo by a Russian hacking group claiming responsibility for last week’s cyberattack on Tipton West Wastewater Treatment Plant in Indiana surfaced on social media Thursday. It’s evidence of the latest cyberattack by nation state cybercriminals targeting water facilities in small towns across the United States. The “People’s Cyber Army of Russia” took credit last Saturday

The wild and woolly debate over a powerful but divisive surveillance tool got even wilder Friday when the House of Representatives, in an about-face from two days ago when former President Donald Trump had mobilized his allies to scuttle the law, passed a measure to extend the expiring authorities.  To make matters wilder still, a

The federal official in charge of a crucial vulnerability database that has recently gone mostly dark said Wednesday that she hoped the formation of a consortium would improve the repository, a move that some experts immediately criticized as too slow to address an urgent problem. In mid-February, the National Institute of Standards and Technology stopped