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More than 1M Android Phones Infected With Googlian Malware
A new variant of a well-known malware program called 'Googlian' has infected more than one million accounts via phones that run older versions of Google's Android operating system, mostly outside the U.S., according to security firm Check Point. The android malware...
Free rides for San Fran Muni customers after apparent computer hack
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency gave customers free rides on its Metro light-rail service all day Saturday, a precaution they took after an apparent hack of the agency’s computer system. Pink “Out of Service” messages shone from the ticket machines...
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Crysis Ramsomware Decryption Tool Released by ESET
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
Crysis Ramsomware Decryption Tools Released by ESET
Since it first appeared, ransomware’s profitable business – in short, compromising and encrypting data belonging to companies and users and requesting payment in exchange for the restoration of infected files –has grown rapidly. One of the threats that has had a...
US Navy Data Breach – 130,000 current and former sailors victims of data breach
More than 130,000 current and former sailors have fallen victim to a data breach, the Navy announced on Wednesday. According to a news release, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services notified the Navy on Oct. 27 that one of the company's laptops operated by an employee...
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Michigan State University experiences data breach
Michigan State University has experienced a data breach, which it said took place on November 13th. It is believed that 'only 449' people are thought to have been compromised, after an unauthorized party gained access to its database (which contains over 400,000...
UK Mobile Provider Three Suffers a Major Data Breach
UK mobile company 'Three' has become the latest victim of a major data breach, with up-to six million customers reported possibly affected. Data that has been accessed includes names, phone numbers, addresses and birth dates. Three said that fraudsters were able to...
Adobe fined $1 million for 2013 data breach
The financial repercussions of a data breach have been highlighted by the $1 million fine handed out to Adobe Systems for a 2013 security incident. Roy Cooper, attorney general of North Carolina, said that businesses and government “must do more” to protect sensitive...
Brewing Up CyberSecurity Solutions at Big Beaver Brewing Co., Loveland CO – November 15th, 2016
Yesterday we held the first of many CyberSecurity education events. We chose Big Beaver Brewing Company in Loveland as the location because Loveland sits well between the cities of Fort Collins, Windsor, Greeley, Johnstown, Berthoud and Longmont. In attendance we...
Massive DDoS attack in Liberia wipes most of country offline
Liberia was hit by a massive DDoS attack, which succeeded in taking most of the country offline. It was revealed that the cause of this is the Mirai botnet, the same system that resulted in the largest DDoS attack yet on Dyn back in October and the attack on...
New Cybersecurity Law in China is Contraversial
China’s government approved a controversial and broad new cybersecurity law aimed at tightening and centralizing state control over the internet, including the role foreign companies play in Chinese cyberspace. The law, passed by the standing committee of China’s...
Northern Lincolnshire NHS Hospital Hit By CryptoWare
Blaming a computer virus outbreak, a hospital system comprising 3 separate hospitals in the United Kingdom was forced to cancel all planned operations and diverted major trauma cases to neighboring facilities this week. The CyberCrime incident came as U.K. leaders...
Bookmaker William Hill website hit with DDoS attack
UK-based bookmaker William Hill has been hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, preventing many of its customers from being able to access its main website. The company had, earlier this week, (November 1st) revealed on social media that its website...
UK and US Governments Invest in CyberSecurity Initiatives
Both the UK and US Governments have committed to investing time, resources and large sums of money into refreshed CyberSecurity initiatives. These new intiatives are a clear sign that our governments are taking CyberSecurity and Cyber-Attacks very seriously indeed....
What is a Botnet?
Perhaps you're wondering - What is a botnet? https://www.youtube.com/embed/s0sgiY93w9c Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the internet backbone caused massive interruptions for millions of users and prevented...
Webcam firm recalls hackable devices after mighty Mirai botnet attack
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
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