Cyber
North Korea Cyber Attacking banks around the world to fund its nuclear program
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab claimed that North Korea is launching cyber attacks on Banks around the world in order to fund its Nuclear Program. The cyber security firm added that it has enough digital evidence to prove that N Korea was involved in last Year’s cyber heist of $81 million siphoned from the account of […]
Cyber Security check is must during a Merger and Acquisition
The year 2016 saw a lot of news headlines related to data breaches and hacks and Yahoo topped the most among those. At first, the web services giant became the victim of a largest cyber attack in history which saw over 1 billion accounts being compromised. Then it experienced the worst as Verizon which was […]
Broadcast signals make Smart TVs vulnerable Cyber Attacks!
Smart TV Broadcast signals are being used to launch cyber attacks which enable hackers to spy on people with the TVs camera and microphone. The attack also offers the hackers a potential to access several TVs at once without the need of any physical tampering. So, a single attack on home a smart TV can […]
Terrorists to launch cyber attacks on UK’s Airports and Nuclear Power Stations
Britain government has issued a nationwide alert which asks the authorities related to Aviation and Nuclear Power Stations to tighten their defenses against cyber attacks propelled by terrorists. The law enforcement agencies have also issued a series of alerts in the past 24 hours, cautioning about terrorist attacks launched in masked format. The Intelligence agencies […]
Here’s the list of Five Major Cyber Attacks of 2016!
Cyber attacks became something of a hot topic of 2016 and that’s due to the fact that they not only have the potential to break a business on a financial note ( ex- Verizon deal of buying yahoo) but also can bring in a kind of political instability into a nation’s current affairs. For instance, […]
Ransomware encrypts critical files of Dutch Parliament
Some state sponsored actors have succeeded in encrypting critical files related to a computer network of the Dutch parliament. As per our sources, the lower house of Dutch Parliament, the Tweede Kamer was hit by ransomware attack which managed to encrypt some election and finance related documents of the parliament. Note-Ransomware is a form of […]
Sound waves being used to launch cyber attacks!
Have you ever imagined that simple sound waves can be used to launch cyber attacks on smart devices..? Yeah, you’ve read it right! Researchers from the University of Michigan have found a new way of using sound waves to launch cyber attacks on devices loaded with Accelerometers. The study made by the researchers states that […]
North Korea takes hackers on lease to launch cyber attacks on other nations!
The North Korean government seems to be banking on cyber attacks these days as it is hiring other nation hackers on lease to launch cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of developed nations. As per a report compiled by a group of reporters from the New York Times, the said nation is trying to launch […]
United States appoints Four Thousand trained cyber security professionals to protect nation’s critical infrastructure
Idaho National Laboratory in association with Department of Homeland Security has made it official that over 900 cyber security professionals have succeeded in passing out the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Training Course in this year. Technically speaking, the above said the specialized course is meant to offer training to interested personnel who will then […]
Why state-sponsored actors launch cyber attacks?
Eric O’Neill, the former CIA operative recently shared his thought on why some countries are super-interested in launching cyber attacks on other nation’s critical infrastructure. As cyber espionage and cyber terrorism have emerged as the most critical threats to public and private sectors in the United States and the United Kingdom, let’s hope that his […]
