Cyber Attack
Iran hackers Cyber Attack Australian Universities
Hackers from Iran are reportedly found targeting Australian Universities in order to rob valuable digital information from research work- a serious threat to national security. According to a news post from ABC News, Australia hackers have so far targeted thousands of staff and student accounts at prominent universities to siphon data from academic journals, dissertations, […]
DNC Cyber Attack allegations on Russia were fake
The Democratic National Committee released a statement a couple of hours ago saying the attempted cyber attack by Russia on party candidates was fake. And was, in fact, a simulated phishing test attempted by white hat security analysts hired by Michigan Democratic Party. Therefore, the statement which was released by DNC on Tuesday of a […]
Government websites in Finland suffer DDoS Cyber Attack
A distributed denial of service attack is said to have disrupted few of the government websites in Finland on Sunday last week. And authorities say that the denial of the service attack was the biggest to have taken place in the past few months. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that the first to bear […]
Cyber Attack on Boys Town Hospital and Blue Springs Family Care
A cyber attack on the database of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska is said to have potentially compromised more than 105,309 patient medical records in May this year. After investigating the crisis, a spokesperson from Boys Town Healthcare chose to update the cyber incident to the press on Thursday this week. As […]
Cyber Attack on COSCO
COSCO US, a shipping agency having its headquarters in Shanghai, China is reported to have been hit by a cyber attack on Tuesday this week. The company has issued a press statement to its customers which confirmed an attack on its digital assets affecting the ocean water carrier’s communication in the American region only. COSCO […]
Russian cyber attack on US Power Utilities for blackout
Hackers claimed to be from Russia are reported to have succeeded in penetrating into the power utilities of United States last year. Their intention was clear, to cause blackouts across America and cause panic and chaos among the populace. An official statement released a few hours ago from Department of Homeland Security claims that the […]
Details about SingHealth Cyber Attack
SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore was targeted by hackers recently, leaking personal as well as outpatient medication details of nearly a quarter of the state’s population. The disclosed data includes health details of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and personal data of more than 1.5 million people and medicine dispense details of […]
Cyber Attack tools are now easily available online
Earlier, launching a cyber attack needed a lot of expertise. But these days’ wannabe or newbie cybercriminals are finding it very easy to launch an attack- all thanks to the online shopping platforms. Michael McGuire, a criminologist from Surrey University says that cybercriminals are nowadays using $1.5 trillion in profits a year to acquire, launder, […]
Timehop data breach details
New York-based Timehop Company which provides an application for smartphones users to collect their memories from their old social media posts has disclosed that almost all of the private information of all its 21 million users was hacked by cyber crooks last week. The hacked info includes usernames, email address, telephone numbers and the virtual […]
Vladimir Putin urges the world to fend off cyber attacks on a collective note
All these days we have seen many nations including the US, UK, and Ukraine alleging that Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin have malicious intentions to launch cyber attacks on developed countries in order to create a political instability in the respective nations which would help the Russian federation emerge as a world leader in […]
