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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO.”

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Acknowledging this, a few cybersecurity innovators are taking a different tack. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004.

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The History of Malware: A Primer on the Evolution of Cyber Threats

IBM Big Data Hub

At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military. 2004: Mydoom worm Similar to ILOVEYOU, the Mydoom worm also used email to self-replicate and infect systems around the world.

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

In 2016, Mayhem -- then still a research prototype -- showed that fully autonomous cybersecurity was possible. Mayhem is deployed and already helping the DoD in DevSecOps, for T&E (Test and Evaluation) , and cybersecurity teams make the world safer. I say 3 years at best, because cybersecurity is evolving.

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

In 2016, Mayhem -- then still a research prototype -- showed that fully autonomous cybersecurity was possible. Mayhem is deployed and already helping the DoD in DevSecOps, for T&E (Test and Evaluation) , and cybersecurity teams make the world safer. I say 3 years at best, because cybersecurity is evolving.

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MAYHEM MOVES TO PRODUCTION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

ForAllSecure

In 2016, Mayhem -- then still a research prototype -- showed that fully autonomous cybersecurity was possible. Mayhem is deployed and already helping the DoD in DevSecOps, for T&E (Test and Evaluation) , and cybersecurity teams make the world safer. I say 3 years at best, because cybersecurity is evolving.