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Wipro research says 1 out of every 2 cyber attacks saw Password Breach
Wipro, the Asia-based IT giant recently conducted a research on cyber attacks and came to a conclusion that 1 out of every 2 cyber attacks witnessed a password breach. The Cybersecurity Report of 2017 released by Wipro says that 56% of breaches were related to passwords implying that further damage could be committed by hackers […]
Cyber Attacks on Businesses cost investors £42 billion loss
Cyber Attacks on businesses is costing investors £42 billion loss says a study commissioned by cyber security firm CGI and conducted by Oxford Economics. The study also confirmed that a company which is listed in FTSE 100 Index gets worse off by an average of £120 million after a breach. Oxford Economics made the study […]
Russian Government denies involvement in Yahoo Hack!
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has denied its involvement in hacking US based companies which include Yahoo. Kremlin (FSB) has reiterated the claim that two of Russian spies were involved in launching a massive hack on Yahoo web services which leaked info of more than 50 million accounts. “Our officers or the government is not […]
Russian spies were responsible for cyberattacks on Yahoo!
The law enforcement agencies of United States have arrested four persons responsible for breaking into the database of Yahoo and stealing data related to over 500 million accounts. Out of the four, two are said to be a member of Russian security forces who was acting as spies of the federal nation. It has to […]
Yahoo starts sending Cyber Attack warning emails to its users
Yahoo has started sending security warning emails to all those users whose accounts were compromised in the mega-hack which took place in between 2015-2016. However, the web services giant has declined to disclose the exact number of people who were affected by the cyber attack. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer confirmed yesterday that it has started […]
England to levy £52 billion fine on SMBs for lacking tools against cyber attacks
British firms witnessed 230,000 cyber attacks in 2016 and this was revealed as a fact in a survey analysis conducted by Internet Service Provider ‘Beaming’. The survey added that on an average the volume of cyber attacks passing the corporate firewalls and hitting the cyber networks has reached the mark of 1K/ day for the […]
Verizon still interested in acquiring Cyber Attacked Yahoo!
As soon as the media reported about multiple major hacks of Yahoo User accounts last year, Verizon announced that it will review and re-evaluate the deal of buying Yahoo once again. But as per the latest developments, the impact of cyber attacks looks ZERO on the deal as Verizon still seems to be interested in […]
Data Breaches which topped the year 2016!
Cyber Security was a paramount concern for many government and private firms in this year. And so here’s the list of top data breaches which took place in 2016 prepared by our editorial team. Yahoo Breach- Yahoo leads the pack in the data breach list of this year. In September 2016, Yahoo reported that more […]
Yahoo latest data breach increases Cyber Attack anxiety among Businesses
Yahoo’s latest hack of 1 billion accounts has proved as a worst case example of an unnerving but increasing common phenomenon of cyber espionage. On Wednesday, Yahoo made it official that it has experienced a largest cyber attack in his company’s history as more than a billion user credentials were leaked by hackers. The California-based […]
Yahoo faces biggest cyber attack humiliation with 1 billion user accounts hack
Yahoo is facing its biggest cyber attack humiliation of all times as a 3-year old security breach is said to have exposed credentials of more than 1 billion users. As per the Yahoo Tech, this is touted as the biggest security breach in the history of Yahoo, surpassing its past record of 2015 which exposed […]
