The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has seized two domain names used in a cyberespionage campaign that targeted U.S. and foreign government agencies, think tanks, and humanitarian groups.

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The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russia intelligence operatives.

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U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack of Colonial Pipeline.

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Fears that bad actors would fraudulently apply for and receive CARES Act funds are not unfounded, Baltimore-based cybersecurity company ZeroFOX says in a new report.

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The operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems, according to a report Wednesday.

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Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency created two years ago to protect America’s networks and infrastructure lacks the money, tools and authority to counter such sophisticated threats.

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With cybersecurity scandals becoming increasingly prevalent — the 2017 Equifax data breach is just one example — the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is providing non-lawyers with the legal knowledge they need to prevent and handle ...

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Researchers at Tenable have found vulnerabilities in security cameras made by Amazon.

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Bowie State University is partnering with a Virginia firm on cybersecurity workforce development.

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Bowie-based startup Trinity Cyber raised $23 million as it plans to expand its infrastructure and workforce as part of its plan to “hack the hackers.” Trinity wants to go after the “bad guys” rather than placing the blame for every ...

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