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Security experts: Foreign nation not behind Friday internet attack

The attack Friday targeting internet company Dyn that briefly knocked Netflix, Twitter and The New York Times offline was not the work of state actors, says a new report. After the attack, speculation ... read more

Australian security services investigate attempted cyber attack on parliament

Australia’s security agencies are urgently investigating an attempt to hack the federal parliament’s computer network, with the parliament unable to rule out a foreign government being behind the ... read more

Saudi foreign minister calls Iran most dangerous nation for cyberattacks

The most dangerous nation for cyber threats is Iran, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir told CNBC on Sunday. Though the minister did not offer specific examples for his claim, security experts ... ... read more

Foreign government suspected in federal MP computer hack

A foreign government is suspected of being behind ... security. Just because you can't see who your enemy is, because they're on the internet, doesn't mean they're not your enemy." The Australian ... read more

The Latest: UK says it agrees with US Iran behind attacks

It said it also believed Iran was behind an attack last ... between our nations." The Iranian leader added that "external pressure and foreign sanctions" have made such cooperation "even more acute." ... read more

The Cybersecurity 202: Democratic base fired up by effort to ban Internet-connected voting machines

As the 2020 election approaches, voting security groups are trying to rally the public behind an effort to ban Internet connections from U.S ... to me that in this day and age, when we know foreign ... read more

Nations battle cyberattack damages; UK focuses on hospitals

It was not yet known who perpetrated Friday's attacks. Two security firms — Kaspersky Lab and Avast — said they had identified the malicious software behind ... the National Cyber Security Center says ... read more

On Huawei and Autos, Trump Aligns Trade With U.S. Security

But with its emphasis on technological superiority it is not that ... a China expert at the Crumpton Group, a Washington consultancy. China has long invoked national security to justify censorship of ... read more

More disruptions feared from cyber attack; Microsoft slams government secrecy

The NSA and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Microsoft statement. Economic experts ... for cyber attacks is notoriously difficult. The original attack lost ... read more

Trump’s National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’

After the indictment on Friday Mr. Trump declared in a Twitter post that “the results of the election were not ... his own National Security Strategy, or of the elaborate $1.2 million-a-month effort ... read more

Cyber attacks disrupt PayPal, Twitter, other sites

Security experts said ... of denial-of-service attacks against unnamed core internet infrastructure providers in what seemed like a test of capability. Nixon said there was no reason to think a ... read more

Researchers see possible North Korea link to global cyber attack

WASHINGTON/TORONTO (Reuters) - Cyber security researchers have found technical evidence they said could link North Korea with the global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack that ... say who might be ... read more