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A Department of Homeland Security worker listens to President Barack Obama talk at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Israel Fends Off Tehran-Linked Cyber Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv – Israel’s national cyber-security authorities briefed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a defense operation it completed on thwarting massive cyber espionage. The complexity in which the security breach was attempted suggests that an organized...

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (C) exits One World Trade Center following a meeting in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 6, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

U.S. Intelligence Got the Wrong Cyber Bear

by Leonid Bershidsky | Jan 9, 2017 | Opinion

The “Russian hacking” story in the U.S. has gone too far. That it’s not based on any solid public evidence, and that reports of it are often so overblown as to miss the mark, is only a problem to those who worry about disinformation campaigns,...

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Man poses in front of on a display showing the word ‘cyber’ in binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica December 27, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Can Anyone Keep Us Safe from a Weaponized ‘Internet of Things?’

by Andrea Peterson | Nov 8, 2016 | Technology

It will be hard — if not impossible — to stop hackers from weaponizing the “Internet of Things” anytime soon. That’s what some experts are warning in the wake of a massive cyberattack Friday that used compromised Internet-connected devices like security...

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Tools used by the Cate family at its welding shop in Belleville, Wis.- Lauren Justice for The New York Times

The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office

by Nicole Perlroth | Jun 13, 2016 | Technology

Drive past the dairy farms, cornfields and horse pastures here and you will eventually arrive at Cate Machine & Welding, a small-town business run by Gene and Lori Cate and their sons. For 46 years, the Cates have welded many things — fertilizer tanks,...

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Some of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) online recruitment propaganda. Asharq Al-Awsat)

EU in new drive to target ISIS online recruiters

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2015 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, will target the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) online recruiters in a new campaign beginning July 1, the agency has said. A Europol spokesperson told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday the agency would...