Local authorities face an average of 19.5 million cyber attacks a year, according to an investigation by privacy campaign organisation Big Brother Watch. Download this free guide New technologies: a source of threat as well as a solution Learn about fighting the ever evolving ransomware, IoT botnet malware and data manipulation attacks. By submitting your […]

Another city gets hacked. With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert […]

Highlights Hackers behind Wanna Cry have made only $60,500 so far. Malware first struck on Friday. Meanwhile, a possible North Korea link to the cyber attack has emerged. Since Friday, more than three lakh computers in over 150 countries, including India, have been in the grips of Wanna Cry (or WannaCry), a ransomware that encrypts […]

More than half of Irish businesses expect a cyber attack on their operations by the end of 2017, according to the recently published Dublin Information Sec 2017 report. 36% of respondents said that they have already experienced one this year, reports Irish Independent. “These survey results are interesting but unsurprising – more and more business […]

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that occurred last year. According to news from Reuters, citing comments Clayton […]

In a world where attacks on computers are nearly de rigueur at this point, it isn’t much of a surprise that U.S. banks have begun quietly doomsday-prepping for a successful apocalyptic attack on their computers by hackers. The goal is to head off a run on the bank by panicked citizens. Called Sheltered Harbor, the […]

Wiltshire Police has denied reports it suffered a cyber attack in the aftermath of the nerve agent incident. Questions surrounding a potential attack had been raised after staff at Wiltshire Council, with which the force shares an integrated IT service, found parts of the network had been shut down. Council workers were unable to access […]

PowerOPS PowerShell Runspace Portable Post Exploitation Tool aimed at making Penetration Testing with PowerShell “easier” What is it: PowerOPS is an application written in C# that does not rely on powershell.exe but runs PowerShell commands and functions within a powershell runspace environment (.NET). It intends to include multiple offensive PowerShell modules to make the process […]

Organizations believe that today’s cyber threat landscape places them at high risk of cyber attacks. The EY survey of nearly 1,200 C-level leaders of the world’s largest and most recognized organizations examines some of the most urgent concerns about cybersecurity and their efforts to manage them. Findings show that 56% of those surveyed are making […]

This blog explains what GDPR risk really means for your organisation. It is written by our guest blogger, John Strutt, an intelligence analyst and cyber security expert. Intelligence analysts are most likely see GDPR risks and misunderstandings, so we asked John for his take on the impact of GDPR. For a quick summary the changes […]