America covers cybersecurity incidents, policy, privacy, public services, advisories, and regional developments affecting digital security.
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America covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to America, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving America's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service. [...]
The compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company is being used by threat actors to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. [...]
The compromised infrastructure of an undisclosed media company is being used by threat actors to deploy the SocGholish JavaScript malware framework (also known as FakeUpdates) on the websites of hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. [...]
Roughly half of all Android-based mobile phones used by state and local government employees are running outdated versions of the operating system, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities threat actors can leverage to perform cyberattacks. [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued education technology company Chegg after it exposed the sensitive information of tens of millions of customers and employees in four data breaches suffered since 2017. [...]