A massive cyber attack which has hit a number of institutions in Ukraine appears to be spreading across Europe. Several firms, banks and government offices in Ukraine began to report attacks earlier today caused by ransomware named “Petya”. London-based advertising giant WPP has reported problems with its IT systems caused by a “suspected cyber attack”, […]
wave of cyber attacks, which hit a clutch of multinationals, came just six weeks after what the EU’s law enforcement agency described as an “unprecedented” attack by WannaCry Ransomware. From “cyberwar” to “hacktivism” and “cyberterrorism”, here are some of the major cyber attacks over the past decade: The Baltic nation of Estonia was the first […]
LONDON — The United States and Britain blamed the Russian government on Thursday for a cyberattack that hit businesses across Europe last year. The U.K. accused Moscow of “weaponizing information” in a new kind of warfare, and the White House said “the Russian military launched the most destructive and costly cyber-attack in history.” “The attack, dubbed […]
Scoping is one of the most important parts of a penetration testing engagement as it will determine if you will be able to do a good job: Not enough time: you will struggle to finish in time, and you will miss things or provide an incomplete report. Too much time: the client is not going to […]
White House Threatens ‘Consequences’ for 2017 Russian Cyber Attack In an unusual public statement, the White House fingered Russia and said it would respond with unspecified “international consequences” to NotPetya. The White House has promised unspecified “international consequences” for a June 2017 Russian military cyber attack against Ukraine that went on to infect networks and computers […]
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who in 2013 leaked details of America’s surveillance programs, has blamed the intelligence agency for not preventing the global cyber attack on Friday. Some cyber security experts and privacy advocates said the massive attack reflected a flawed approach by the United States to dedicate more cyber resources to offence rather […]
Mike Egerton/PA Wire/PA Images NHS Digital say IT staff were sent link to a patch that could have prevented last week’s cyberattack. At least 45 NHS organisations across England and Scotland were hit by the attack. The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was warned last year about NHS’ vulnerability to attack. LONDON — The crippling cyberattack on […]
Chinese media pinned some of the blame for the massive global cyberattack that affected more than 300,000 computers over the weekend on the United States. The China Daily said Wednesday that the U.S.’s National Security Agency should take some of the blame for last week’s WannaCry ransomware attack, which targeted vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems and […]
IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says the systems run by the National Informatics Centre were secured and running smoothly. (HT photo) The government today said there was no serious impact in the country due to a global ransomware cyber attack, except for a few isolated incidents in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad […]
Cyber attack continues its destructive world tour Wednesday, June 28, 2017 – 01:18 The cyber attack that started Tuesday is wreaking havoc across the globe Wednesday, crippling thousands of computers, disrupting operations at ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting production at a chocolate factory in Australia. Press CTRL+C (Windows), CMD+C (Mac), or long-press […]