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Residential proxies are often used by bad actors to hide the true source of Internet traffic and now one of them appears to have taken up residence in the White House.   The Residential Proxy Observatory, set up by Layer3 Intel to monitor the threat of anonymized network activity, and has identified proxy exit activity on one particular network, AS2650, which is registered to the executive office of the US President and operated out of the White House.[1]  Hmmmmm.

Residential proxies are so-call

No, the current US presidential administration has not created a game show, but it has launched a competition offering millions of dollars in prize money for creating new artificial intelligence systems that can defend critical software from hackers.  Competitors vying for some of the $18.5 million in prize money will need to design novel AI systems that quickly find and fix software vulnerabilities in electric grids, subways or other key networks that could be exploited by hackers, a Biden admi

The Killnet group and its collaborators are claiming they were able to pull off a trio of symbolic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at punishing some of the most critical supporters of Ukraine against the Russian invasion: Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service and the websites of the White House in the US and the Prince of Wales in the UK.  Researchers at Trustwave were able to find evidence corroborating the Russian-backed threat group's claims.[1] 

Just last month

The White House has begun its second annual International Counter Ransomware Summit in which Biden administration officials will convene with representatives of three dozen nations, the EU, and private business to discuss the growing threat posed by data-destroying cyberattacks. President Biden will not be attending the meetings.

According to administration officials previewing the summit over the weekend, the two-day event will focus on priorities like improving system resilience and developing