UK
NHS lost £92 million and Cancelled 19K appointments due to WannaCry Ransomware Attack
Do you know how much loss did the WannaCry Ransomware Attack cause to UK’s NHS? The news is out that the national healthcare provider lost almost £92 million and had to cancel almost 19,000 appointments due to the computer network disruption caused by the malware in May’17. The loss estimate of WannaCry Cyber Attack was […]
Google kills Google + after bug exposes 496,000 user details
Google has finally decided to shut down the business of Google + after a software bug in its servers exposed critical user data to third-party developers. As a result of the data exposure of nearly 496,951 accounts, the business unit of Alphabet Inc. has decided to disable the consumer functionality of the service for the […]
Russia launched cyber attacks on Foreign Defense Bodies says Latvia
Latvia, a country in the European Union has openly confessed that Russia has carried out cyberattacks on its Foreign and Defense apparatus and other state institutions. The statement was given by Latvian Intelligence Agency yesterday and added that Russia’s Military intelligence was consistently trying to access the nation’s info by e-mail phishing attacks against the […]
UK plans to blackout Russia via Cyber Attack
Britain is reportedly planning to blackout Russia if the latter tends to execute its plan of launching a missile attack at the UK’s military base which is said to be ill-equipped to respond to such attacks as of now. The exercise to blackout Moscow is said to be the biggest war game of this decade […]
Britain and Australia blame Russian GRU for Cyber Attacks
Perhaps its time countries like Britain, the US and Australia should stop blaming their cyber adversaries and instead start acting on how to make their country’s cyber infrastructure immune to cyber attacks. That’s because the populace of the respective countries is no more interested in who is launching the attacks. But are more interested in […]
Britain on high ‘cybersecurity’ alert due to Russia
Britain is reported to be on a high ‘Cyber Security’ alert these days and the news has been confirmed by Ciaran Martin, the Chief Executive of National Cyber Security Center(NCSC). The reason, the nation wants to guard the nation’s IT infrastructure against any variant of cyber attacks coming from Russia. Martin says that a number […]
UK TV License website glitch makes 40,000 households vulnerable to Hackers
In Britain and the territories attached to it on Coast, every household watching or recording television content during broadcast needs to hold a television license to do so. It is like a legal permission given by the Broadcasting authority to watch the content via terrestrial, satellite, cable or internet. Cybersecurity Insiders has learned that nearly […]
Most SMBs in the UK are keeping Cyber Attacks secret
A survey conducted by Appstractor Corporation has discovered that SMBs operating in the UK have faced at least 5 cyber threats in the last year. And most of them have kept them as a secret for reasons. Almost four IT decision makers working for SMBs across the UK have confirmed the report findings admitting that […]
Over 20K Superdrug customer details leaked in Cyber Attack
Superdrug Stores PLC, an online health and beauty retailer in the UK has admitted that hackers stole details of its 20K customers for ransom. A spokesperson who apologized to its customers via Twitter added that the stolen details include customer names, addresses, phone numbers, reward points and DOBs for most of the customers. It’s said […]
Only 38% of UK firms are covered by Cyber Security Insurance
A survey conducted by Ovum on behalf of FICO Insurance claims that only 38% of firms in the United Kingdom have a cybersecurity insurance cover and rest of the 62% either have no coverage or doesn’t have a cover engrossing all risks. This discovery was made in a survey based on numerous interviews with senior […]
