Cybersecurity experts warn that it may take weeks or months after the presidential election for a winner to be decided, thanks to the threats of security issues and litigation around the results (MSFT, GOOG)

Election cybersecurity experts said Tuesday that “the electorate may not be prepared for how long it’s going to take” for winners to be declared after the general election on November 3rd. A panel that included two cybersecurity experts who served in the White House agreed that simply counting ballots may take a week or two. …

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Who is behind the Russian cyberattacks on coronavirus vaccine research?

Who is behind the Russian cyberattacks on coronavirus vaccine research?

Description  A cybersecurity and defence expert on the history and development of Russian cyberwarfare Credits  Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alt Text  Vladimir Putin A cybersecurity and defence expert on the history and development of Russian cyberwarfare In Depth Thursday, July 23, 2020 – 9:35am Dorothy Denning, emeritus distinguished professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School,…

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Group Petitions EFCC To Investigate, Prosecute Lagos Speaker, Obasa, Over Corruption Allegations

Group Petitions EFCC To Investigate, Prosecute Lagos Speaker, Obasa, Over Corruption Allegations

Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa The Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate and prosecute Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, over allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement. GCSDN in a petition signed by its Chairman, Fredrick Odorige, said recent revelations on…

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FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies

FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies

‘Completely unacceptable’ spouts British Foreign Secretary Russian hackers at the state’s FSB spy agency have been caught breaking into Western institutions working on potential vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hope of stealing said research. That’s according to the British National Cyber Security Centre and America’s NSA today.…

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The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System

The Intercept Discloses Top-Secret NSA Document on Russia Hacking Aimed at US Voting System

On Monday, the Intercept published a classified internal NSA document noting that Russian military intelligence mounted an operation to hack at least one US voting software supplier—which provided software related to voter registration files—in the months prior to last year’s presidential contest. It has previously been reported that Russia attempted to hack into voter registration…

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Beijing-linked hackers ‘tried to steal’ coronavirus vaccine data

Beijing-linked hackers ‘tried to steal’ coronavirus vaccine data

Credits  Pedro Vilela/Getty Images Alt Text  Coronavirus vaccine US charges two men accused of targeting drug companies during global cybertheft campaign One-Minute Read Joe Evans Wednesday, July 22, 2020 – 1:27pm Two Chinese men linked to Beijing’s intelligence service targeted vaccine development research during a six-year cybertheft campaign in which trade secrets worth hundreds of…

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ISIS Is Setting Up Fake Social Justice Accounts on Facebook

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/Klaus VedfeltAMMAN, Jordan—Bitcoin grifters last week commandeered the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Joe Biden. Russian foreign intelligence operatives have been hacking American, Canadian and British coronavirus vaccine research, according to the UK National Cyber Security Centre. And, as if not to feel left out…

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