cyber attack

Mirai Botnet Hits US College With Massive 54 Hour Attack

Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack

8 years ago

Phishing Attack Targets Saudi Arabia Government

It seems no organisation is safe from cyber criminals as Saudi Arabian government becomes the latest target

8 years ago

GCHQ Warns Political Parties Of Russian Cyber Threat To 2020 General Election

GCHQ warns that Russian tempering during US Presidential election is likely to happen again

8 years ago

Kaspersky Lab: 43 Percent Of DDoS Victims Believe Rival Firms Are To Blame

Industrial sabotage was voted more likely than attacks by cyber criminals, disgruntled employees and political conspiracy

8 years ago

Deutsche Telekom Cyber Attack ‘Mastermind’ Arrested At London Airport

The police plan to extradite him to Germany where he could face up to ten years in prison

8 years ago

Carbon Black: It’s Time For Next-Gen Endpoint Security

Carbon Black believes now is the time to move on from traditional antivirus (AV) software and embrace the next generation…

8 years ago

New Ransomware Campaign Targets The Apple Mac

Mac attack. New ransomware campaign targets Apple Mac users seeking to pirate popular software

8 years ago

RSA Conference 2017 Gets Political Amidst Election Hack Fallout

ANALYSIS: A look at the strong political focus of day one of RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco

8 years ago

RSA 2017: Microsoft President Calls On World Governments To Join Forces In Cyber Battle

As nation state cyber attacks have grown in prominence, is collaboration the solution?

8 years ago

DDoS Attack Takes Down Austrian Parliament Website

The DDoS attack, one of the most common cyber threats, is being investigated by authorities

8 years ago

Defence Secretary: Putin’s Cyber Attacks Seek To Destabilise West

Defence Secretary Fallon says Russian hackers are targetting critical Western infrastructure

8 years ago

MPs Slam ‘Dysfunctional’ Governmental Breach Reporting

Parliamentary committee also warns of real skill shortage to tackle growing cyber menace

8 years ago

A Third Of NHS Trusts Targeted By Ransomware Attacks

FOI report further highlights the prevalence of ransomware targeting the healthcare sector

8 years ago

Nearly One Third Of NHS Trusts Hit By Ransomware Attacks

Of the 94 NHS Trusts that responded, none admitted to paying a ransom

8 years ago

Patient Data Safe After Barts NHS Health Cyber Attack

An unknown Trojan malware was responsible for the attack, but failed to access patient data

8 years ago

Britain Launches Cyber Security Inquiry

After Russian hacking of US election, the UK launches a national security inquiry into cyber defences

8 years ago

US Expels Russian Diplomats For Cyber Attacks

35 Russian diplomats handed their marching orders by the United States in revenge for cyber attacks

8 years ago

Ukraine Probes Kiev Power Grid Cyber Attack

From Russia with love? Ukraine investigates weekend cyber attack on Kiev's power grid

8 years ago

IBM Security Reveals 70 Percent Of Businesses Pay Up To Ransomware

A quarter of business executives would be willing to pay up to $50,000 (£40,000) to get their data back

8 years ago

Money, Data And Disruption: Cyber Attacks Of 2016

2016 has been an interesting year for cyber security, and that's putting it mildly

8 years ago

Hackers Pilfer Trade Secrets In ThyssenKrupp Cyber Attack

Hackers have looted sensitive trade secrets from a German conglomerate in latest damaging data breach

8 years ago

Ransomware Attacks Show Threefold Increase In 2016

Ransomware attacks developed significantly in 2016, both in prevalence and sophistication, making it the threat of the year for businesses…

8 years ago

Businesses Must Prepare For Bigger And Badder DDoS Attacks In 2017

Rise of the botnets levies threats at businesses and governments

8 years ago

European Commission Victim Of “Large Scale” Cyberattack

The EC has passed details of the attack to the EU’s cyber emergency response team

8 years ago

Cyber Security Challenge UK Tasks Hackers With Energy Firm Defence

Challenge sees amateurs battle to protect energy firm from cyber attacks, both internal and external

8 years ago

Lincolnshire Hospitals Cancel Operations After Their IT Suffers Virus Infection

The hospital has been forced to shut down it IT network to seek out and destroy the virus

8 years ago

Data Breach Exposes 550,000 Australian Red Cross Blood Service Donors

Security flaws on the organisation’s website led to personal data bleeding out after a basic hack attack

8 years ago

Energy Sector Is A ‘Prime Target’ For Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks against energy companies have risen massively, with the industry a prime target for attackers

8 years ago

Hack Attacks On Satellites Pose ‘Catastrophic’ Risk To The World

Chatham House researchers warn space assets are ripe targets for cyber criminals, hackers and terrorists

8 years ago

Bruce Schneier: ‘Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet’

Security expert Bruce Schneier suspects state-sponsored DDoS attacks are being levied at major internet infrastructure providers to test cyber defences

8 years ago