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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. government civilian and military units have warned for nearly 25 years about a damaging cyber attack dubbed the “electronic Pearl Harbor,” but while threats continue to intensify, America’s ability to deter and defend against such an assault still suffers from capability gaps, testified a top expert before a House panel.

The intelligence community has released the declassified version of its assessment of “Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections” for public review.

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are calling it quits on their efforts to create a select committee on cybersecurity to investigate Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election, Burgess Everett reports at Politico.

Readers were unable to access the pioneering powerhouse news website Drudge Report for an hour and a half on Thursday, due to what site founder Matt Drudge says was a denial-of-service attack.

It is odd that the very people who insisted prior to the election, that Hillary Clinton’s email “mistake” was a non-scandal are now claiming that an e-mail hack is responsible for a foreign intervention in our election that is a major national crisis.

House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favor of deepening collaboration with the Israeli government to strengthen the cybersecurity defenses of both countries on Tuesday.

Cybersecurity firm Kryptowire claims that many Android phones are loaded with a backdoor that is transferring data, call logs, and text messages to China.

A British cybersecurity firm has reportedly uncovered the compromised personal data of approximately 5.5 million employees of the world’s 1,000 largest corporations.

Poland’s ambitious programme to modernise its armed forces is one of the biggest in Europe, and with billions of dollars likely to be spent over the coming years it is attracting major players in the industry.

The auto industry is barreling headfirst toward a driverless future – and a cybersecurity nightmare, as Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed off for the second year in a row how easy it is to hack into a smart car.

A massive hacker attack on Vietnam’s airports two weeks ago, which forced many airlines to temporarily revert to manual check-ins, has been blamed on a hacker group linked to the Chinese government.

European security and intelligence agencies are scrambling to regroup and reorganize following a steady, growing flow of jihadist atrocities. They have a steep learning curve ahead of them when it comes to thwarting terrorism.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with his recently appointed British counterpart Theresa May on Tuesday afternoon, wishing her luck in her new role.

Anti-virus software company Avast conducted an experiment at the Republican National Convention over the past few days to see just how many people would connect to fake, and potentially dangerous, Wi-Fi networks they had set up.

Sixty percent of all world wide web applications attacks targeted the United States in the first quarter of 2016, with the majority coming from China, USA and Turkey.

TEL AVIV – No other country on earth has successfully integrated private, academic, government and military cyber-expertise as Israel has done in its new cyber-city blossoming in the desert, a new report by the Washington Post claims.

Cybersecurity leader SecureWorks Corp. may be the first tech IPO filing that actually completes an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016.

Apple Inc. is about to suffer huge reputational risk, now that the FBI is taking its new capability to hack encrypted Apple products on the road to help other law enforcement agencies.

Libertarian presidential candidate and anti-virus company founder John McAfee doled out some harsh words for the state of our government alongside an offer to solve at least one of its current issues.

Yahoo reports:  The first day of the recent CyberTech 2016 conference on cybersecurity in Tel Aviv, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of national infrastructure, energy and water resources, dramatically demonstrated the urgency of the matter at hand: He admitted that the state electric

President Barack Obama signed two executive orders on Tuesday about cybersecurity and described his Cybersecurity National Action Plan in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Critics will wonder why many of the ideas in the National Action Plan were not implemented years or

BEERSHEBA (AFP) — A modern metropolis rising from Israel’s Negev desert stands on the front-line of a global war against hacking and cyber crime, fulfilling an ambition of the country’s founding father. David Ben-Gurion famously said he wanted to make

On Friday, Obama Administration officials held a summit with Silicon Valley executives to discuss the use of social media platforms by groups such as the Islamic State.

There are many problems with funding our gigantic, intrusive federal government by passing gigantic omnibus bills in a blind year-end panic, as has become customary in decadent Washington, D.C. One problem is that voters don’t know what their “representatives” have slipped into those gruesome trillion-dollar pork sausages. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is trying to repeal a controversial cybersecurity law that slipped under America’s nose in the omnibus package, despite public unease about similar measures in the past.

GOP presidential candidate former Hewett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina tells Breitbart News exclusively about the need for the government to engage the private sector in order to help protect American citizens from detected cyber and terrorist attacks.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina stressed the need for the United States to take cybersecurity seriously because of the threat the Islamic State (ISIS) poses on national security.

The magazine Wired has published a document purported to be the operational security manual for the Islamic State: a 34-page PDF file uncovered by the Combating Terrorism Center at the West Point military academy, and somewhat loosely translated from Arabic.

Two former contractors for the Department of Defense (DoD) have agreed to pay close to $13 million to settle a legal case alleging that they hired Russian workers without security clearances to work on DoD computer projects.

Something embarassing in your web history? British police will be able to see it under new powers granted by the draft Investigatory Powers Act, dubbed the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ by critics.

China and North Korea were judged weak on defense against hacker attacks in a recent Australian assessment of Asian-Pacific electronic security.

An anonymous hacking group attacked the website of the Egyptian presidency and took it offline for a short time on Thursday, according to a report at Al-Arabiya News.

An independent forensics team has analyzed all the raw footage of the undercover videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress and has determined they are “authentic and show no evidence of manipulation or editing.”

The Wall Street Journal reports on a study from cybersecurity group ThreatConnect and the security consultants at Defense Group, Inc., indicating that China’s military is heavily involved in hacking and cyber crime.

The end of another “red line” farce draws nigh, as China waves aside the Obama administration’s bluster about cyberwar sanctions and claims to be more victimized by hackers than the United States is.

Lt Gen Michael T. Flynn, who served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under President Obama, recommended this weekend that Hillary Clinton’s Top Secret security clearance be immediately revoked, due to concerns she incorrectly handled classified information in establishing a private, insecure email server for her personal use.