From Russia's most powerful security agencies to obscure firms with meaningless names, here is a look at the entities sanctioned by the United States for alleged hacking targeting November's presidential election.
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Using Cyber Threat Intelligence to Make 5 Security Forecasts for 2017
I spend most of my time analyzing vast quantities of cyber threat data, looking for trends and insights that we can use to help our customers better prepare for what cyber threats are coming next. There are some clear trends that have emerged over the past 12 months that we can use to offer cyber security guidance and strategies in the coming year.
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U.S. Attributes Election Hacks to Russian Threat Groups
U.S. Government Maps Election Hacks to Russian Threat Groups, But Industry Raises Concern Over Attribution Evidence
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Trump to Meet U.S. Spy Chiefs to Get Russian Hacking ‘Facts’
US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday responded to a slew of US election related sanctions against Russia with a call for the country to "move on" and a conciliatory pledge to meet US spy chiefs he has harshly criticized.
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U.S. Punishes Russia Over Election Hacks
President Barack Obama on Thursday unleashed a barrage of retaliatory measures against Moscow for meddling in the US election, imposing sanctions on two intelligence agencies, expelling 35 agents and shuttering two Russian compounds inside the United States.
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OSCE Confirms ‘Major’ Cyber Attack
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an international election and war monitor, said Wednesday it had become the latest global institution to suffer a "major" cyber attack.
The Vienna-based OSCE has its origins in the Cold War but after 1991 it expanded and now has 57 member states including the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
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Sundown Exploit Kit Starts Using Steganography
A new version of the Sundown exploit kit uses a technique called steganography to hide its exploits in harmless-looking image files, Trend Micro reported on Thursday.
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Serious PHP Issues Revealed by Flaws in PHPMailer, SwiftMailer
Experts have determined that the remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting the PHPMailer and SwiftMailer email-sending libraries are caused by PHP design flaws.
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Mozilla to Kill Firefox for Windows XP, Vista in 2017
Support for Windows XP and Vista will be removed from Firefox, currently the last major web browser out there to still support the two outdated operating system versions.
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Topps Customer Data Exposed After Website Hack
Topps this week sent out emails informing users that its website was hacked earlier this year and that personal information, including credit card data, was stolen.
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