Cyber Attack
Cyber Attack on Police Federation leads to cancellation of Centenary Celebrations
Cyber attacks which took place on the UK based Police Federation in March this year has made the authorities cancel the annual conference organized for celebrating the Federation’s Centenary supposed to be attended by Home Secretary. Going by the details, a ransomware attack is reported to have taken place on the database of The Police […]
Air Strikes in retaliation to Cyber Attacks
Israel resorted to air strikes on a building located in Gaza Strip which the military forces claim to be housing Hamas Cyber Operatives. This was in retaliation to a cyber attack launched on Israel’s critical infrastructure last week this year. While there is no qualitative evidence that bomb attacks have really pinned down the Hamas […]
Power grids of Los Angeles and Salt Lake under Cyber Attack
Power grids operating in Los Angeles County in California, and Salt Lake County in Utah claimed that they were hit by a powerful DDoS cyber attack on March 5th of this year. However, the authorities have cleared the air that the impact of the attack was never passed onto the customers or the computer systems […]
Cyber Attack on Japan to initiate war with the United States
As per the latest security treaty signed between Japan and the United States, any state-funded cyber attack on Japan is enough to infuriate the United States which could make it launch back cyber attacks in retaliation. Yes, you’ve read it right! As per the bilateral security talk signed by Japanese officials in the presence of […]
Julian Assange arrest leads to 40m cyber attacks on the Ecuadorian government
Since, the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday last week, the Ecuadorian government claims that the country’s IT infrastructure has been hit by more than 40 million cyber attacks. This includes DDOS attack on the WebPages of South American country’s public institution, internal revenue service, universities and the website run by the office […]
Cyber Attack on Wipro helps hackers launch advanced Phishing attacks
KrebsOnSecurity, a research source which operates against cybercrime and run by investigative reporter Brian Krebs has disclosed that a network breach at India’s IT outsourcing giant Wipro has targeted some of the company clients through advanced phishing attacks. News is out that some hackers managed to intercept the servers operating at the Bengaluru based Wipro […]
Finland election results service hit by Cyber Attack
Finland police have issued a press statement early today that its election result services which help publish vote tallies were hit by a serious cyber attack just a week before the national elections. However, the situation is reported to have been brought under control and will show no effect on the voting process or the […]
Cyber attack on large companies operating in the Asia Pacific could fetch $10.7 M loss
Large companies which are into manufacturing stream and are operating in the Asia Pacific(APAC) are said be on the verge of being cyber attacked says a survey conducted by Frost & Sullivan which was commissioned by Microsoft. And it is estimated that on an average the economic loss from such attacks could reach $38,000. The […]
Cybersecurity news trending on Google
1.) Cloud Storage vendor Dropbox suffered a business drawback last week when security researchers participating at the ‘HackerOne’ bug hunt program in Singapore discovered over 264 vulnerabilities on its data storage platform. According to those familiar with the news from the company, the data storage firm had already been alerted by its internal engineers about […]
Pharma giant Bayer becomes victim to Chinese Cyber Attack
Bayer AG, a Germany based Pharmaceutical company and probably one of the largest pharma companies in the world have made an official announcement today that it became a victim of a cyber attack early last year. And after monitoring and analyzing its database until March this year, its cybersecurity experts came to a conclusion that […]
