A new report published on Tuesday by State Comptroller Yosef Shapira addressed multiple flaws in a myriad of Israeli sectors ranging from the country’s inability to meet postal service requirements to the state’s apparent lethargy in preparing to counter cyber attack threats.
LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Britain will boost its cyber security defences with a 1.9 billion pound ($2.32 billion) investment due to be announced by Finance Minister Philip Hammond later on Tuesday, a statement from the Treasury said.
Darren Samuelsohn reports in Politico that a “survey of battleground state election officials paints a troubling picture” of how “woefully unprepared” they are for an election day cyber attack.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suffered a major system-wide crash on Monday, raising concerns among some observers that the state’s voting system could be vulnerable to hacking.
An exclusive report from Reuters reveals that congressional leaders were warned about Russian hackers targeting the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a year ago, but the information in the briefing was so sensitive that DNC officials could not be warned.
Despite all of Silicon Valley’s efforts, China is still the a major software thief — at a cost of $8.7 billion a year.
Sixty percent of all world wide web applications attacks targeted the United States in the first quarter of 2016, with the majority coming from China, USA and Turkey.
The Philippine Star reports that a large number of government and corporate websites were hacked and vandalized by a group calling itself the “Indonesian Defacer Team,” which replaced the normal web pages with messages praising itself.
One Texas school district admits cybercriminals hacked into their records multiple times and across 20 of its campuses, attempting to hold data for ransom. To their knowledge, no pertinent confidential student data was seized; however, the news of these attacks has some parents worried.
The Times of Israel reports: Iran launched a cyber-attack targeting Israeli army generals, human rights activists in the Persian Gulf and scientists, an Israeli cyber-security firm said Thursday. Gil Shwed, CEO of Check Point Software Technologies, said the attack began
Security experts across the world are increasingly worried about the possibility of a cyber-attack that would target infrastructure – anything from communications and traffic control to electric power or utility services. Just such an attack is believed to have occurred on December 23 in Ukraine.
Turkey has accused the Russian government of having a hand in cyberattacks launched against government and private Turkish websites, after the downing of a Russian fighter in November.
The computer network that supports academic services at Britain’s universities has suffered its worst ever cyber attack, knocking out much of the network and seriously disrupting work at several institutions. The network, known as Janet, is responsible for running the
GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina stressed the need for the United States to take cybersecurity seriously because of the threat the Islamic State (ISIS) poses on national security.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A major cyber-attack against Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology that may have compromised potentially sensitive national security information is being blamed on China, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday. The Bureau of Meteorology owns one of
Several major German language news websites are offline today, and ‘hacktivist’ collective ‘Anonymous Deutschland’ have claimed responsibility, stating the cyber attack was in revenge for German media being rude about them. News websites including Focus, Der Spiegel, and Blick Zeitung have been offline since the
(Reuters) – Islamic State militants are trying to develop the capability to launch deadly cyber attacks against Britain’s infrastructure, finance minister George Osborne will say on Tuesday as he announces a doubling of spending on cyber security. Osborne, Prime Minister
Once again, the Internal Revenue Service is reporting that a data breach has landed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in the hands of hackers. This time, the tax agency is admitting that the info of some 220,000 taxpayers was lost.
United Airlines has announced a penetration of its computer security in May and June, with investigators saying it was most likely the same Chinese squad that carried out the “cyber Pearl Harbor” attack on the Office of Personnel Management, along with an operation against health insurance company Anthem. It appears the Chinese raiders made off with a sizable amount of flight information, including passenger lists, from United.
Hackers from the amorphous cyber-crime collective Anonymous claim to have leaked the data from 4,200 United States Census Bureau files.
FireEye, a private sector cybersecurity firm, told media that they believe they have discovered who was behind the massive hack on the federal Office of Personnel Management in which millions of federal employees’s data was stolen.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revised its timeline on a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of 4 million Americans to foreign hackers.
Websites run by the Canadian government were attacked on Wednesday, causing widespread service interruptions. The “Anonymous” hacker collective claimed responsibility for the attack, describing it as a protest against the recent passage of a controversial anti-terrorism bill, which the hackers denounced as “a clear violation of the universal declaration of human rights.”
The United States is committed to a more comprehensive strategy to maintain vigilance in the face of continuing cyber threats to the nation, President Barack Obama said this week, vowing to ramp up the U.S. cyber defense apparatus.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Homeland Security chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said the evidence is pointing to China as being responsible for hacking the private information of 4 million federal employees last April. McCaul said “This is the
Sunday from Austria’s Interalpen Hotel, press secretary Josh Earnest said that if the evidence shows China is behind the massive federal data breach last April, in which hackers acquired the private information of 4 million federal employees, the Untied States
Sharmila Seyyid, a Muslim woman journalist and human rights activist from Sri Lanka, received so much backlash from a comment in a BBC appearance that she left her home country. She did not receive a warm welcome in India, which forced her into hiding. Now outlets are pressuring both countries to protect Seyyid.
A new study on Iran’s cyber warfare capabilities has revealed that Tehran is rapidly increasing its ability to carry out professional-grade cyber attacks and has done so even while negotiating with the P5+1 World Powers about its nuclear weapons program.
Turkey is in the process of recovering from a major blackout that has brought the country to a relative standstill. Almost the entire country has been affected by the massive power cut, according to some media reports out of Turkey. Officials are considering the possibility that they were hit by a major cyber attack directed at its critical infrastructure.
Actress Ashley Judd announced to NBC News Monday her plans to press charges against “Twitter trolls” who attacked her Sunday after she shared her opinions about a college basketball game on the site.
In testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed that Iran was behind a cyber-attack against Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson’s Sands Corp. in 2014.
A number of Hollywood guilds have reached out to members to notify them that their personal information may have been stolen in the recent data breach attack on Anthem.
On Sunday, jihadists attacked a main power line in Pakistani Balochistan’s Naseerabad district. As a result, 140 million Pakistanis were left in the dark and two nuclear power plants were knocked off line.
At the premiere of his new documentary, The Big Bang in Pyongyang, former NBA star Dennis Rodman extended an invitation to Seth Rogen to join him in North Korea to see firsthand that the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, is not the villain that the world, and Rogen’s recent film The Interview, makes him out to be.
