Attacks

One in every 5 UK businesses hit by Cyber Attacks

A research conducted by British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) suggests that one in every 5 British businesses is being targeted by Cyber criminals. The said trend is said to be continuing from the past couple of years on a consistent note and is said to head further into future. The BBC study also suggests that […]

2017 witnesses 43,000 cyber attacks on every UK Business

Beaming which is one of the Britain’s leading broadband services provider has conducted a survey of UK businesses and came to a conclusion that the first quarter of 2017 witnessed 43000 cyber attacks hitting every single business in the UK.  When the numbers are analyzed further, Beaming claims that each business gets attacked 474 times […]

Cyber Attacks on Businesses cost investors £42 billion loss

Cyber Attacks on businesses is costing investors £42 billion loss says a study commissioned by cyber security firm CGI and conducted by Oxford Economics. The study also confirmed that a company which is listed in FTSE 100 Index gets worse off by an average of £120 million after a breach. Oxford Economics made the study […]

England’s NHS Trust turns vigilant after 5 unsuccessful Cyber Attacks

Britain’s National Health Service Trust(NHS) has turned extremely vigilant these days after it learned from a security firm’s report that one of the Trust hospitals was cyber attacked 5 times in 2016 with ransomware. As the hackers failed to get into the database of the NHS Trust no money was exchanged between the cyber criminals […]

Broadcast signals make Smart TVs vulnerable Cyber Attacks!

Smart TV Broadcast signals are being used to launch cyber attacks which enable hackers to spy on people with the TVs camera and microphone. The attack also offers the hackers a potential to access several TVs at once without the need of any physical tampering. So, a single attack on home a smart TV can […]

Terrorists to launch cyber attacks on UK’s Airports and Nuclear Power Stations

Britain government has issued a nationwide alert which asks the authorities related to Aviation and Nuclear Power Stations to tighten their defenses against cyber attacks propelled by terrorists. The law enforcement agencies have also issued a series of alerts in the past 24 hours, cautioning about terrorist attacks launched in masked format. The Intelligence agencies […]

Here’s the list of Five Major Cyber Attacks of 2016!

Cyber attacks became something of a hot topic of 2016 and that’s due to the fact that they not only have the potential to break a business on a financial note ( ex- Verizon deal of buying yahoo) but also can bring in a kind of political instability into a nation’s current affairs. For instance, […]

Study proves that Desktop scanners are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

Researchers from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found out a way to make office scanners as source points to launch cyber attacks. To make it possible, they are using a laser or smart bulb light to establish a covert channel between an outside attacker and malware […]

Why state-sponsored actors launch cyber attacks?

Eric O’Neill, the former CIA operative recently shared his thought on why some countries are super-interested in launching cyber attacks on other nation’s critical infrastructure. As cyber espionage and cyber terrorism have emerged as the most critical threats to public and private sectors in the United States and the United Kingdom, let’s hope that his […]

List of Countries which are most vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

As soon as Wikileaks revealed to the world that it has valid documents to prove that US law enforcement agency CIA has the potential to hack any Smart Phone, Smart TV or devices related to Internet of Things existing on this globe, it surprised the entire world, along with those connected to the cyber security […]

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