Cyber Attack
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 […]
Iran cyber attacks the UK
US Security experts claim that an Iranian hackers group named Iranian Revolutionary Guards has planned cyber attacks on UK infrastructure which includes random DDoS attacks on Post Offices across the UK and siphoning of medical records of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Cyber attacks launched on the UK say that the hacker’s group which […]
Israel to become a victim of Cyber Attack on April 7
A Hebrew based news resource Mako suggests that IT hub Israel could become a victim of an annual cyber attack which is reported to take place on April 7th of this year i.e on Sunday. The authenticity of this news is yet to be known. But the source suggests that the attack could also show […]
Cyber Attack news which is trending now on Google
1.) Dubai British School based in Jumeirah Park, Gulf claims that it became a victim to a cyber attack which compromised the email database of the educational institute for a few hours of time last week. But the British Educational Institute also added in its statement that all necessary action has been taken to preserve […]
Cost to launch a cyber attack
All these days we have been discussing companies protecting their digital assets from cyber attacks, but now in this article, we will be talking about the cost of a cyber attack versus defense strategies. Research carried out by a top VPN provider says that logins related to Amazon, Uber, Spotify, Gmail, Twitter, PayPal and GrubHub, […]
