A recent report from Wired claims that schools across the U.S. are facing an epidemic of false school shooting reports, resulting in police SWAT teams arriving at schools filled with startled students and educators. 92 incidents in 16 states occurred in just three weeks of September according to research by Wired.
Following the recent criticism of the Chinese-owned app TikTok, China’s state-run newspaper Global Times has claimed that the app should be praised for “preventing cyber terrorism.”
Al-Qaeda has explored the critical infrastructure in the U.S., such as electric power, telephone communications, and water supplies in search of vulnerabilities to carry out “electronic jihad,” or cyberterrorism, warns the the House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
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.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his first speech on his trip to the United States in Seattle Tuesday. Xi asserted China’s alleged desire to prosper, but not conquer, crack down on cyberterrorism, and end the corruption plaguing the Communist Party for years.
A report on the breach of OPM’s computers systems by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) says hackers did not have to work very hard to gain entry. The report also raises a worrisome new possibility about what hackers might have been doing during the months they had undetected access: adding false data to the systems even as they were stealing from it.
Websites run by the Canadian government were attacked on Wednesday, causing widespread service interruptions. The “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as a protest against the recent passage of a controversial anti-terrorism bill, which the hackers denounced as “a clear violation of the universal declaration of human rights.”
German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.
The IRS had been warned of vulnerabilities in their computer system long before the taxing agency admitted this week that it had been hacked and may have lost the data of up to 100,000 American taxpayers.
Many experts reckon the first cyberwar is already well under way. It’s not exactly a “cold war,” as the previous generation understood the term, because serious damage valued in millions of dollars has been done, and there’s nothing masked about the hostile intent of state-sponsored hackers. What has been masked is the sponsorship.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong arrived in Havana this week, just in time for the resumption of talks between Cuba and the United States. In public statements praising the Cuban government, Ri praised Cuba’s continued “fight against American imperialism” and vowed that North Korea would remain a loyal ally to Cuba.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), the chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, released a manual to help Americans prepare for terrorist attacks and cyber crimes.
The Obama administration has officially linked the North Korean government to the Sony Pictures hack, perpetrated by a group calling itself the “Guardians of Peace” in retaliation for a film that mocks North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
The Sony Pictures hacking drama ended, at least for the moment, with the besieged studio deciding to authorize a limited release for “The Interview” after all. This came after a storm of criticism of Sony, and the U.S. government that failed to protect them, for caving in to the demands of a hacker group with, shall we say, very strong feelings about the impropriety of mocking North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
Now that American officials have determined that North Korea was “centrally involved” in the Sony hack, its time to take a closer look at the state that forced Sony Pictures to make an unprecedented decision and cancel the Christmas Day
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declined to dub the hacking of Sony as “cyberterrorism” terming it a “cyberhack” and arguing that there isn’t any point in “putting new labels on it” on Thursday’s “The Lead” on CNN. She added, “I
