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A crucial State Department database used to vet travelers to and from the U.S. had gaps in its security that could have allowed hackers to either steal or edit visa information, according to a Thursday report. The recently discovered vulnerability — which has been repaired, according to one agency official — was considered a risk because […]

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Capitol Hill is increasingly concerned about the lack of international laws governing cyber war. In the last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers sent the State Department a letter urging greater attention to the issue and one House leader introduced a bill that would require the department to produce a comprehensive cyberspace strategy. The letter […]

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2011

Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file […]

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