(Getty) Facebook removed white nationalist accounts encouraging guns at anti-racist protests The Proud Boys and American Guard both are designated hate groups. Jun 5, 2020 By Jeff Stone
(Ivan Radic / Flickr) Ransomware crooks attack Conduent, another large IT provider Maze is but one of a series of ransomware affiliates that like to target IT services companies. Jun 5, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
USTRANSCOM’s Control, Communications and Cyber Systems Directorate adding software and imaging laptops at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, April 15, 2020. Cyber Command has been working on a project for two years is going to cost five times more than what military officials originally estimated, according to a Government Accountability Office report. GAO: Cyber Command is overspending on data tools The project is going to cost five times more than what military officials originally estimated. Jun 5, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
Attendees walk past a Facebook logo during the company’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. (REUTERS / Stephen Lam) Facebook announces it will flag state media posts, eventually decline ad dollars Twitter said in 2019 it would no longer accept advertisements from government-sponsored media outlets. Jun 4, 2020 By Jeff Stone
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in February. His campaign staff has been targeted with spearphishing emails from Iranian-linked hacker groups. (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Google: Biden and Trump campaigns targeted by separate spearphishing campaigns Google Threat Analysis Group has seen Chinese and Iranian nation-state linked hackers targeting Joe Biden and President Donald Trump’s campaigns. Jun 4, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
(Getty Images) There’s a new Java ransomware family on the block BlackBerry and KPMG researchers uncovered a new ransomware strain targeting education and software entities. Jun 4, 2020 By Shannon Vavra
(Emma Whitehead/Getty/Open Whisper Systems) Signal wants to protect protesters’ privacy with new face-blurring feature Use of Signal has surged since George Floyd's killing. Jun 4, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
(Getty Images) Email scammer pleads guilty to defrauding Texas firms out of more than $500,000 Spending all the money in the world on high-tech cybersecurity tools doesn’t do much for organizations if they still can’t stop email scammers. Jun 4, 2020 By Jeff Stone
(Thomas Hawk / Flickr) Google updates anti-phishing tools by streamlining iOS capabilities The update comes amid the ongoing realization that text-based authentication is incomplete. Jun 3, 2020 By Jeff Stone
(Zoom) Zoom has partially fixed two new flaws, with other security hurdles ahead Cisco Talos researchers uncovered two new flaws in Zoom, only one of which is fully fixed, according to Talos. Jun 3, 2020 By Shannon Vavra