How Putin's trolls killed Star Wars
All your views are manipulated
Russian Tsar Putin ordered his online trolls to kill off Star Wars the Last Jedi by manipulating online opinion.
Republican senators fight to keep hackers in the US elections
Putin is helping us to win why should we stop him?
The Republican-controlled Senate has defeated a push by Democrats to set aside an additional $250 million for states to upgrade their voting systems to protect against hacking and other cyberattacks.
Russians ready to hack your car
They've got a blinking swerve
A top brass from the UK's army has warned that Vladimir Putin's cybertroops may well target British traffic lights and Belisha beacons and other vulnerable points as the move to IP based systems builds up a head of steam.
Google to purge Putin's propaganda
Ending the Kremlin's reign over Google News
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, says the company will purge Russian propaganda from Google News after facing criticism that Kremlin-owned media sites were given royal treatment on the search giant’s news and advertising platforms.
Russian press admits Putin’s trolls targeted activists
Russian troll factory paid US activists to help fund protests
A respected Russian media outlet has concluded that Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the US to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues.
Russian spammer fears death if he is extradited
The US military will torture him for Putin's secrets
Russian hacker and alleged spam kingpin Peter Levashov, who was arrested in Spain on a US warrant, said that if he is extradited to the US he will be tortured and dead in a year.
Congress wants to stop Trump giving Putin cyber intelligence
Apparently some people think it might be risky
President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump thinks it is rather a good idea to hand over cyber intelligence to the Russians before they have to go through the dangerous practice of hacking any computers.
Trump u-turns on Russian cyber deal
Tweet not so sweet
The czar of the United States was forced to re-track on a proposal he made to Russian czar Vladimir Putin to cooperate on cyber security.
Western tech surrenders to Putin
We would love to let you look at our secrets
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets.
Russian hackers focused on 21 electorates
But failed to do much good
Homeland Security says that it has found evidence that Russian hackers targeted 21 US state election systems in the 2016 presidential race – a small number were breached but there was no evidence any votes were manipulated.