Cyberattack
US SEC issues new Cybersecurity Guidelines
United States Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) has issued new guidelines to companies on when to report a cyber attack. And security analysts say that the guidelines are lacking teeth, even after the commotion created by Equifax saga. In general, it has been 7 full years since SEC has advised companies on how to disclose details […]
GitHub hit by a DDoS Cyber Attack!
GitHub, the world’s famous web-based hosting service for version control using Git has revealed that it became a victim of a DDoS cyber attack last week. The website which is mostly used for computer coding reported that the hackers took over its server’s memory systems by ‘memcaching’ and amplified the volume of data by 51k […]
Germany accuses Russia of launching cyber attacks on its Defense and Interior Ministries
Many media sources in Germany are seen accusing Russian government funded hacking group Fancy Bear for launching cyber attacks on Defense and Interior Ministries in December last year. The hack was realized by the German law enforcement in December 2017 and their investigation revealed that the hack may have lasted for up to a year. […]
British homes with Smart Electric Meters are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks!
Security experts from UKs’ intelligence agency GCHQ say that millions of homes running on smart electric meters are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks. As the agency has raised its concerns over the security of the meters last week, Ministers have taken a note of it and are about to act after discussing an apt solution with […]
Russia and China wondering about United States insecurity on Cyber Threats!
As soon as Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia might try to influence the 2018 US elections, Russia and China retaliated to his statement by saying that their governments have no idea on why the United States feels so insecure on Cyber Threats. Issuing an official announcement […]
Russian Intelligence behind Winter Olympic Games Cyber Attack!
PeyongChang Games which are being held in South Korea’s PeyongChang Olympic Stadium witnessed a minute disruption yesterday when some hackers tried to disrupt the official website of the Winter Olympic Games. The organizers of the Olympics sporting event say that attack could be the work of Russian Intelligence in retaliation to the ban imposed on […]
Great British Firewall blocks 54 million cyber attacks and news about Lauri Love
United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Center(NCSC) has disclosed that its security teams have succeeded in blocking around 54 million malicious online attacks last year and have taken down around 120,000 fake websites- all as a part of a ‘Great British Firewall’ program designed to stop cybercriminals targeting the public to steal money and sensitive data. […]
Rabobank and other Dutch financial institutions hit by DDoS Cyber Attack!
Banking services of Rabobank, ABN Amro and ING were hit by cyberattacks when hackers targeted the said financial institutions with Distributed Denial of Services. Reports about the attack emerged when customers of Rabobank vented their ire on the bank’s website disruption through Twitter. It was then the authorities of Rabobank reacted by first rendering an […]
Russian Cyber Attack could kill millions in Britain!
Russia, now touted as the biggest threat to all western countries is once again in the news for all wrong reasons. Britain’s Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson claimed that a cyber attack from the said nation could kill millions of populace in Briton. Giving an interview to ‘The Telegraph’, Williamson said that Russia is always in […]
Cryptocurrency Rating release despite North Korea Cyberattack!
For the first time in the history of Cryptocurrency, an American rating agency covering various finance-related business verticals like stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, insurance companies and banks have released the ratings for various cryptocurrency variants. Among them, Ethereum has bagged a ‘B’ class rating and Bitcoins has been accredited with ‘C+’ ratings. But the rating […]
