Section: The Mercury News (USA)
Russia’s Kaspersky Lab offers up source code for US government scrutiny
By RAPHAEL SATTER and VERONIKA SILCHENKO, Associated Press MOSCOW — The chief executive of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab says he’s ready to have his company’s source code examined by U.S. government officials to help dispel long-lingering suspicions about his company’s ties to the Kremlin. In an interview with The Associated...
New cyberattack causes mass disruption in Europe
PARIS — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard. Company and government officials reported serious intrusions at the Ukrainian power grid, banks and government offices, where one senior official posted a photo of a darkened...
Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault
By Greg Miller,Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous, (c) 2017, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – Early last August, an envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried “eyes only” instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President Barack Obama and three senior...
Putin: ‘Patriotic’ hackers fight those who speak badly of Russia
By IAN PHILLIPS and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the Russian state has never engaged in hacking and said Moscow will wait out the current political storm in the U.S. to forge constructive relations with President Donald Trump, whom he praised as a straightforward person with a...
G-7 commits to climate change deal — except for Trump
By COLLEEN BARRY, SYLVIE CORBET, and DAVID McHUGH TAORMINA, Sicily (AP) — Seven wealthy democracies ended their summit Saturday in Italy without unanimous agreement on climate change, as the Trump administration plans to take more time to say whether the U.S. is going to remain in the Paris accord on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The other...
Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
By Matt Zapotosky,Sari Horwitz,Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous, (c) 2017, The Washington Post Investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and an influential White House adviser, as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters, according to...
The Latest: Annan says extremists ‘will lose this time, too’
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The Latest on the blast at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England (all times local): 6:59 p.m. Former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan says the world must stand together against “the extremists and terrorists” responsible for the attack in Manchester and similar senseless violence elsewhere. Annan told The...
El Daily Stormer: Neo-Nazi website now in Spanish
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Andrew Auernheimer, a notorious computer hacker and internet troll associated with The Daily Stormer. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) How does a leading neo-Nazi website that has railed against Hispanic immigrants expand its audience beyond a loyal base of U.S. white supremacists? By publishing a Spanish-language edition, of...
Log in, look out: Cyber chaos may grow at workweek’s start
By SYLVIA HUI and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER LONDON (AP) — Employees booting up computers at work Monday could see red as they discover they’re victims of a global “ransomware” cyberattack that has created chaos in 150 countries and could wreak even greater havoc as more malicious variations appear. As a loose global network of cybersecurity...
Presence of Russian photographer at Oval Office meeting raises alarms
By Carol Morello, Greg Miller | The Washington Post A photographer for a Russian state-owned news agency was allowed into the Oval Office on Wednesday during President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian diplomats, a level of access that was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach. Related Articles...
