Nov 17, 2016 | Data Breaches
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...
Nov 7, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
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...
Nov 4, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
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...
Nov 4, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
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...
Nov 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
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....
Oct 26, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Perhaps you’re wondering – What is a botnet? 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 access to dozens of popular...
