Ohio
Russian company tries to Cyber Attack Ohio Election Day 2019
On November 5th,2019, Ohio detected a cyber attack on its election procedure which is now concluded to be unsophisticated. Frank LaRose, the Republican Secretary of State released a press statement on Tuesday disclosing the details of the attack and confirmed that the attack originated in Panama and a Russian Company was behind the cyber incident. […]
Ohio County buys $200,000 insurance policy against Cyber Attacks
The Ohio County which includes the capital city of Columbus has decided to buy $200,000 worth cyber insurance policy against cyber attacks. The decision was to take in wake of increase in cyber threats on a global note. Security experts of the county say that the new spending on insurance will help in improving internal […]
ISIS launches cyber attack on State websites of United States
Hackers from Pro-Islamic State have launched a cyber attack on the 11 government websites of Ohio State on Sunday last week. The attack objective was to replace the homepage of the websites with anti- Donald Trump messages. The government web pages which were replaced by defamatory messages include that of Ohio State Governor John Kasich. […]
Ransomware locks the digital systems of Ohio County’s Government Offices
Hackers have locked the digital systems of all government offices in Licking County of Ohio State with the help of a notorious malware. And officials are not in a position to predict when the operations will return to normalcy. But said that they will try to restore the systems by February 13th this year. Licking […]
