Contents tagged with Cyber Attacks
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Russian Senator: Trump will probably reverse latest round of sanctions
According to the First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Federation Council Committee for Defense and Security, Frants Klintsevich, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will most likely reverse Washington’s latest round of sanctions which were imposed on Thursday in response to the Kremlin’s alleged interference in the U.S. presidential election, TASS reported.
"There is a big chance that Donald Trump will reverse the latest anti-Russian sanctions after he takes office," Klintsevich told reporters. …
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French media: OSCE accused Russia of cyber-attacks on the servers of the organization's headquarters
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe stated that its headquarters in Vienna was subjected to a massive hacker attack. Western security services suspect that the attacks were organized by Moscow, and that Angela Merkel may be the attackers’ main target, Le Monde reported.
The OSCE officially refuses to make any assumptions about who might be behind the Internet pirates that took advantage of vulnerabilities in the operating systems used by employees of the organization. …
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McCain called on NATO to tune in to Russia’s aggressive behavior
According to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, John McCain, the election of Donald Trump as the president of the United States was a surprise, but this result will not affect the US - NATO relationship. According to McCain, who was speaking in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, NATO should prepare for Russia’s possibly aggressive behavior.
When he touched upon the issue of cyber security, he stated that, "there is no doubt that the Russians were engaged in hacking, but …
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EU security services collectively strive to prevent hackers from influencing elections
On the 18th of December, the German President of the Federal Office for Security and Information Technology (BSI), Arne Schoenbohm, stated in an interview with Welt am Sonntag that the security services of European countries exchange information in order to prevent the intervention of hackers into elections that will take place in a number of EU Member States in 2017.
The cyberattack on the IT systems of the Bundestag in Spring 2015, and an attempt to hack party servers, have given rise to a …
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Obama said Russian cyberattacks ceased after he spoke with Putin in September
According to US President Barack Obama, at the September G20 summit in China, after a conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the attacks on the Democratic party servers during the election campaign stopped as Obama threatened Russia with "significant consequences." Speaking at a press conference in Washington on Friday, December 16th, Obama said that after a tete-a-tete conversation with Putin, the cyberattacks stopped, but the leak through WikiLeaks happened earlier so …
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Sweden identified Russia as the largest source of cyber-attacks against the country
The Director of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service, Major General Gunnar Karlson, stated that Russia is the largest source of cyber-attacks against Sweden, the Local reported.
“We have information about the sources of many activities; they can be traced more or less directly. It can be distribution of false information, distortion of truth, exaggeration of certain facts that makes it harder to understand the real picture of the situation,” Karlson said. He revealed that …
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister: US cyber attack accusations are 'anti-Russian hysteria'
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Washington is attempting to fan "unprecedented anti-Russian hysteria” with its accusations that Moscow is responsible for cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations, Reuters reported.
"This whipping up of emotions regarding 'Russian hackers' is used in the U.S. election campaign, and the current U.S. administration, taking part in this fight, is not averse to using dirty tricks," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday.
"There is no …
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US formally accuses Russia of carrying out cyber-attacks against Democratic party
On Friday, Washington formally accused Russia of carrying out cyber-attacks against the Democratic party in an attempt to interfere with US presidential elections, Reuters reported.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security made the announcement, saying “The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political …