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Some simple steps could prevent 99 percent of these types of cyber onslaughts.

Social networks are a great way to stay connected with others, but users, particularly millennials, should be wary about how much personal information they post.

Twitter, Spotify, Amazon and AFCEA are among the sites hit by Friday hack.

The next 17 days leading up to the presidential election pose a rather vulnerable time for the United States—more so than usual during a transition of power, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “This year, for lots of reasons, people are nervous, particularly for an election cycle that has been sportier than normal,” Clapper shared during at presentation Thursday at AFCEA’s Emerging Professionals in Intelligence Committee (EPIC) speaker series. 

Cyber criminals have become quite savvy in luring people to click on a link or open an attachment through spam and phishing attacks. Learn how to spot and avoid these cyber attacks with tips from the National Cyber Security Alliance.

The alliance intends to enhance development and deployment of cyber capabilities.

Last year, the Defense Department issued the Cybersecurity Culture and Compliance Initiative, a memorandum containing alarming statistics on the actual number of successful network compromises and their causes, and principles for guiding daily operations for network users. The good news is that out of 30 million known malicious intrusions occurring over 10 months, 99.9 percent were prevented. The bad news is that .1 percent—or 30,000 attacks—successfully compromised a DOD cyber system.

Tightening up the process and its hardware will eliminate many vulnerability gaps.

It would take a nation-state with advanced cyber capabilities to alter U.S. election; those adversaries exist today.

Devices are more vulnerable than the electorate realizes, but provide less of an opportunity than many hackers might hope.