Attack
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp not down due to cyber attack
The long weekend turned out murky to many as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down to users across the world. And those affected took to Twitter to express their grief about the issue within the first hour. Some complained that the mobile and desktop versions of Facebook-owned sites were down to them till mid-afternoon on […]
DraftKings becomes a victim of DDoS Cyber Attack
Boston based Sports betting contest provider DraftKings has released an official statement yesterday which says that it has become a victim of a Cyber Attack. The company says that it has become a victim of a distributed denial of service attack in early last month that is of increasing concern to businesses these days. DraftKings […]
How to survive a Ransomware attack
Ransomware attack has become a nightmare to most of the companies these days. And a survey conducted by IDC has proved that most of the CIOs or CTOs leading organizations do not know on how to deal with the situation when ransomware authors target their company’s database. In this article, we will discuss on a […]
Bank ATMs in the UK can be hacked any time says FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) of the United States has issued a fresh alert which says Bank ATMs in the UK can be hacked any time soon. The confidential alert says that some high profile cyber crooks, probably backed by some state-funded hackers are plotting a concerted global malware attack on free cash vending machines […]
The FCC faked a DDoS Cyber Attack for Congress
A startling report published by David L Hunt, the Inspector General of Federal Communications Commission, says that the Ajit Pai led organization is said to have faked a cyber attack during the height of last year’s ‘Net Neutrality’ debate. But in reality, the so-called “Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attack did not take place in […]
What “expanding attack surface” means and what you can do about it
This post was originally published here by casey pechan. Not to state the obvious but organizations adopting public cloud services don’t always do so in a coordinated manner. Cloud adoption takes testing – meaning multiple cloud accounts are often created by different teams for various applications. In the old days, if someone wanted a physical […]
Cyber Attack on Security Software Company Domain leaks Customer Data
A Cyber Attack on Netherlands based Security Software Company is said to have allowed hackers to take control of its servers and intercept clients’ login credentials and confidential data. The firm in the discussion is Fox-IT a business subsidiary of NCC Group which suffered a man-in-the-middle attack which lasted for 10 hours and 24 minutes […]
US Men found guilty in Mirai Botnet Cyber Attack of 2016!
A Student (former) from Rutgers University and two other men were found guilty to create a Mirai Botnet that was used to disrupt services of thousands of websites in 2016. It is said that the three men used to infect 100s of thousands of web-connected devices including CCTV cameras and webcams, which were then turned […]
Eight in Ten doctors have experienced Cyber Attack in their Clinical Practice
A survey conducted by Accenture in association with American Medical Association (AMA) reveals that every 8 in 10 doctors in the United States have experienced cyber attacks in their clinical practices. The surveyed physicians also admitted that not enough Cybersecurity support is being rendered by the government that holds them responsible for a data breach […]
American PepsiCo launches Cyber Attack on Russian Agricultural Watchdog!
Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian Agricultural Watchdog has put forward allegations on PepsiCo that the latter has cyber attacked its database to siphon confidential information. But the American Food, Snack, and Beverage Corporation headquartered in New York denied these allegations and said that the Russian agency was trying to tarnish its image in public through baseless allegations. […]
