Internet
The internet is now at the mercy of open source vulnerabilities.
The future of the Internet and new innovations, such as the metaverse and Web 3.0, is at a crossroads. The growing menace of vulnerabilities in open source platforms, siloed web management systems, and insufficient website oversight threaten to push the internet to breaking point. At Forrit we conducted a comprehensive survey involving more than 500 […]
Russia to launch offensive cyber attacks on UK
From the past few hours, some reliable news resources report Putin has asked the Russian Ministry of Digital Development to cut down internet connection to the west by severing internet lines laid in international waters. At first, the target will be the UK and then their target will be the rest of the western world, […]
Russia now launches cyber attacks on Satellites
Viasat Inc, an American company that offers satellite based broadband internet services across Ukraine and Europe, has openly confessed that there was a disruption caused to its services that coincides with the date of Putin waging a war with Ukraine. Though the Carlsbad based company is unsure of what exactly caused its high-speed internet beam […]
US hacker claims to have downed the internet of North Korea
A hacker from United States named P4x has admitted that he took down the internet of North Korea last week by launching a distributed denial of service attack on the central DNS servers of the country. The denial of service attack launched by P4x was retaliation for the digital attack made on him or the […]
Google wants you to follow these cybersecurity basics
As the world is turning completely digital, the need to be connected to the internet has become a necessity to everyone, rather than just a trend. However, not all seem to be merry for staying connected to the web 24×7. As hackers and cyber crooks are always on a prowl of vulnerable of those who […]
Internet in New Zealand disrupted due to a DDoS Cyber Attack
A Distributed Denial of Service attack shortly known as DDoS resulted in the disruption of internet services across New Zealand leading to shut down or temporary closure of businesses from afternoon today, i.e. September 3rd,2021. Reports are in that Internet Service provider Vocus, which operates Flip, Stuff Fibre, Slingshot and Orcon was targeted by a […]
President Donald Trump to shut down the internet to Russia
Well, this is what is being discussed on some of the technology forums such as Reddit right now. The news is out that Russia is preparing a simulatory cyber attack on its own nation in order to protect the national network from a potential cyber war with the US that could see President Donald Trump […]
Trump might start his own Internet
US President Donald Trump has expressed his desire to start his own ‘World Wide Web’ network to counter misinformation (according to him) or fake news spread by CNN on International Level. Mr. Trump expressed his desire to do so via Twitter on Monday which goes on as follows- CNN has a powerful voice portraying the […]
US is yet to sign the Internet Security accord of ‘Paris Call’
France President Emmanuel Macron has urged all nations around the globe to support “Paris Call” which is supposed to be a common framework for ensuring internet security, following a surge in cyber attacks on government networks around the globe. The objective of the proposed agreement is to relaunch negotiations on the code of good conduct […]
Global Internet Shutdown to avoid future Cyber Attacks
A Global Internet Shutdown is said to be observed in the next two days due to a routine domain name server maintenance. And what’s interesting about this update is that it was first issued to the world by a reputed news source from Russia. Russia Today announced that some parts of the world might witness […]