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CrowdStrike announces Falcon Complete for Service Providers

CrowdStrike announced Falcon Complete for Service Providers, a new program that gives Managed Security Service Provider’s (MSSPs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), System Integrators (SIs) and Global System Integrators (GSIs) the ability to create and augment their service offerings with CrowdStrike’s elite 24/7 expert monitoring, proactive threat hunting, integrated threat intelligence, and end-to-end remediation offerings. Designed to help partners rapidly scale managed security services portfolios, close skills gaps, […]

September 13

Featured

CrowdStrike reports surge in identity thefts

Arabian Post Staff CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), today announced the release of 2023 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report – the ninth annual edition of the cybersecurity leader’s seminal report on the evolving behaviors, trends and tactics of today’s most feared nation-state, eCrime and hacktivist threat actors around the world. Now tracking the activities of 200+ adversaries – including 33 new adversaries identified in the past year alone – […]

March 01

World

Global cyberattack disrupts shipper FedEx, UK health system | Reuters

By Costas Pitas and Carlos Ruano | LONDON/MADRID LONDON/MADRID A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in dozens of other countries on Friday. Russian cyber security software maker Kaspersky Lab said its researchers had observed more than 45,000 attacks in 74 countries as […]

May 13

Biz Tech

Australia to work with China on cybersecurity

The federal government has announced it has agreed to enhanced cybersecurity cooperation with China, following discussions between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs Meng Jianzhu. During the discussions held last week in Sydney, Australia and China agreed that neither country would conduct or support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, trade secrets, […]

April 24

World

FBI analysis fingers Russian spy agencies for U.S. election hacks

By Dustin Volz | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The FBI squarely blamed Russian intelligence services on Thursday for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, releasing the most definitive report yet on the issue, including samples of malicious computer code said to have been used in a broad hacking campaign. Starting in mid-2015, Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, the FSB, emailed a malicious link to more than 1,000 recipients, including […]

December 30

India Takes

The most important moments for journalism in 2016

Good morning. Here’s our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? Subscribe here. Most of us can feel unavoidably like Mongo in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles,” meaning a self-perception that “Mongo only pawn in game of life.” (YouTube) Yes, we all try to be philosophical but can lapse into merely being dim-witted, like […]

December 23

Newsbox

Cyberattacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Harming Aviation Agency

Saudi Arabia’s aviation agency was attacked last month by an aggressive computer virus intended to disrupt high-profile government targets, officials and experts said on Thursday. The attack, which experts say emanated from outside the country, used a version of Shamoon, malware used to target the Saudi energy sector four years ago. Similar kinds of data-clearing software were used in 2014 against the Las Vegas Sands and Sony. […]

December 01

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Biz Tech

FBI trying to build legal cases against Russian hackers – sources

By Mark Hosenball and Joseph Menn | WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO The Federal Bureau of Investigation is intensifying efforts to find enough evidence to enable the Justice Department to indict some of the Russians that U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded are hacking into American political parties and figures, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials said on Thursday. Building legal cases is difficult, largely because the best evidence […]

September 16

Biz Tech

Software security suffers as upstarts lose access to virus data

Security analyst Rachit Sood (R) registers for the Black Hat USA 2015 cyber security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada August 4, 2015. Reuters/ STEVE MARCUS/Files SAN FRANCISCO A number of young technology security companies are losing access to the largest collection of industry analysis of computer viruses, a setback industry experts say will increase exposure to hackers. The policy change at the information-sharing pioneer VirusTotal takes aim […]

May 08

Biz Tech

Hunt for Deep Panda intensifies in trenches of U.S.-China cyberwar

A map of China is seen through a magnifying glass on a computer screen showing binary digits in Singapore in this January 2, 2014 photo illustration. Reuters/Edgar Su/Files SINGAPORE Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyberattack on the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management: PinkPanther, KungFu Kittens, Group 72 and, most famously, Deep Panda. But to […]

June 21

Biz Tech

U.S. employee data breach tied to Chinese intelligence – sources

A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration file picture. Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files SAN FRANCISCO The Chinese hacking group suspected of stealing sensitive information about millions of current and former U.S. government employees has a different mission and organizational structure than the military hackers who have been accused of other U.S. data breaches, according to people familiar with the matter. While […]

June 19