Internet Security

The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assess that People’s Republic of China's state-sponsored malicious cyberactivity is a major threat to the US and allied cyberspace assets.

I am proud to share the 2023–2025 CISA Strategic Plan, the first comprehensive Strategic Plan since CISA was established as an agency in 2018. The strategic plan represents a forward-leaning, unified approach to achieving our vision of ensuring secure and resilient critical infrastructure for the American people.

The Snake implant is considered the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for long-term intelligence collection on sensitive targets. To conduct operations using this tool, the FSB created a covert peer-to-peer (P2P) network of numerous Snake-infected computers worldwide.

These cybersecurity authorities—herein referred to as “authoring organizations”—are aware that communities may seek cost-savings and quality-of-life improvements through the digital transformation of infrastructure to create “smart cities".

There are some popular scams anybody ought to avoid when trying to work from home. There are individuals who are constantly attempting to beat any system by doing things lawlessly. Never before has this been more true than with the net unemployment rate so low. Nowadays, millions of Americans battle with unemployment. As long as there's a high level of unemployment, there will be elevated levels of predators looking to target individuals at their most vulnerable moment.

Believe you can, and you will! This is a brief story of how a veteran security professional and cyber influencer George McPherson got into cybersecurity.

In today’s modern world, it’s almost impossible not to engage with social media and the internet on some level. Unfortunately, despite its many positives, this constant rate of interaction also means that many of us are at an extremely high risk of personal exposure to the dangerous negative effects of trolling and cyberbullying. Now, with the help of Your Social Media Happy Guide, you can learn the strategies to protect and prevent yourself from becoming a target of these harmful internet practices.

A concise introductory guide to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The 21st century is not only an era of technical and computer innovations, but the time when each of us can face a hacker's attack. However, there’s no need to panic! There are some simple tips and recommendations on how to save your digital space from perpetrators and where to go if something strange happens.

Politics as usual - isn't anymore. Tear up what you know or think you know about politics. It's all changing. Today, information, opinion, and raw data abound on the Internet, unfiltered and unvarnished by press secretaries, reporters or spin doctors. The Internet has sent the information revolution into reverse, letting us talk back to our political leaders, and the result is a cultural revolution.

BlackLotus is a recently publicized malware product garnering significant attention within tech media. Similar to 2020’s BootHole (CVE-2020-10713), BlackLotus takes advantage of a boot loader flaw—specifically CVE-2022-21894 Secure Boot bypass known as “Baton Drop”—to take control of an endpoint from the earliest phase of software boot.

Don't be a victim! Malicious cyber actors may leverage your home network to gain access to personal, private, and confidential information. Help protect yourself, your family, and your work by practicing cybersecurity-aware behaviors, observing some basic configuration guidelines, and implementing the following mitigations on your home network.

Reducing your organization’s cyber risks requires a holistic approach - similar to the approach you would take to address other operational risks. As with other risks, cyber risks can threaten. Managing cyber risks requires building a culture of cyber readiness.

The spying that took place between the USSR and the United States during the cold war era pales in comparison to the spying and covert operations that are taking place now. Of course, the USSR is no more, but the ideology has lingered in the minds of those who were once members of it. Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, is a cold warrior; he has made it quite clear that the cold war is , in fact, not over, it just looks very different now.

Die Internetseite Silk Road vertreibt Cannabis, Kokain und Amphetamine. Die Webseite ist Teil des sogenannten Darknets, also eines weitläufigen Bereichs des Internets, das nicht jedem unbedarften Nutzer zugänglich ist. Denn viele Darknet-Seiten sind nur für eingeladene Mitglieder oder über eine spezielle Technik erreichbar: TOR.