Cyber

Hackers steal $30 million worth Ethereum Cryptocurrency through Cyber Attack

The news is out that around $30 million worth Ethereum Currency was stolen by hackers through a cyber attack launched on the three of the largest wallets on a recent note. And as per the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, the latest heist launched on the multi-sig wallets of Ether happens to be a major […]

Ohio County buys $200,000 insurance policy against Cyber Attacks

The Ohio County which includes the capital city of Columbus has decided to buy $200,000 worth cyber insurance policy against cyber attacks. The decision was to take in wake of increase in cyber threats on a global note. Security experts of the county say that the new spending on insurance will help in improving internal […]

Cyber Attack on UK’s House of Parliament

Hackers launched a cyber attack on UK’s House of Parliament on 23rd of last month causing data breach to email accounts including a select committee’s mailbox. Investigators who were pressed into service by the law enforcement discovered that 0.5 percent of 9000 accounts were compromised during the sustained and determined attempt which leaked email systems […]

Cisco predicts that future cyber attacks could have potential to destroy the Internet!

Cisco researchers predict that some countries might launch cyber attacks having the potential to destroy entire internet. The networking giant predicts that Russia already has such systems in place which can make countries suffer internet disruption for weeks and in some cases months. Therefore, Cisco through its 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report predicts that future cyber […]

Obama had a plan to combat cyber attacks on Election Day

Former US President Barack Obama had plans to combat cyber attacks on Election Day. And this surprising news was leaked out to Time by a close associate who worked for Obama administration until last year. Time reported that the plan to combat cyber attacks on election day included ideas such as sending armed federal law […]

Phishing email subject lines which launch Ransomware

The Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report states that ransomware is growing at an annual rate of 350 percent. Means, ransomware has turned into a game changer in the world of cyber crime. Therefore, enterprises all over the world are seeing ‘ransomware’ as a big threat to their digital assets. Reason-the said malware not only has […]

San Francisco radio station suffers a ransomware attack!

San Francisco based KQED Radio Station is said to be suffering from a massive ransomware attack since one month. And as per the report published by The San Francisco Chronicle, the infection began on June 15th disrupting critical systems at the National Radio Member station. KQED which happens to be the biggest radio station in […]

University of Aberdeen leads a global project to combat Cyber Attacks

University of Aberdeen has made it official that it is going to lead an international project to help businesses combat cyber attacks. The £1 million project which will be carried out in a 3-year time frame has been projected to help companies examine ways of preventing hackers enticing people into downloading malware. From past couple […]

IBM to offer Next Generation Mainframe with encryption driven Cyber Security

IBM has announced that its next generation Mainframe will be offered with innovation driven cyber security along with the feature of processing 12 billion encrypted transactions per day which are 5 fold increase compared to its predecessor. Known as IBM ‘Z’  the machine will have a memory power of 32 terabytes which is triple than […]

Ashley Madison agrees to pay $11.2 million as Cyber Attack settlement

Toronto based Ashley Madison has officially agreed to pay $11.2 million as cyber attack settlement in response to an American Class Action lawsuit which stemmed from a massive security breach which took place 2 years ago. However, the proposed settlement is yet to get the approval of United States District Court for the Eastern District […]

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