Defense Secretary Ash Carter used his personal email account to conduct official business until December 2015, according to documents revealed from a Freedom of Information Act request.
Google yesterday announced several new protections for its Gmail service, aimed at protecting users from malicious links and government-sponsored cyberespionage.
Maktub Locker ransomware is targeting its victims with a spam campaign that attempts to trick people into thinking they are getting a terms-of-service update when in fact the attached document contains malware.
A ransomware campaign with an unusual method of propagation—infecting servers via unpatched vulnerabilities, then spreading laterally across the local network—experienced a marked spike in activity Monday, according to researchers at Talos.
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