UCLA Health has officially revealed that it has been a victim of a cyber attack – possibly a criminal one – wherein attackers may have stolen data of as many as 4.5…
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Chinese hackers spying on India, South-East Asia for almost a decade: Research
Chinese government sponsored hackers have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India for at least a decade, researchers from internet security company FireEye have revealed. According to FireEye’s…
Github suffers ‘largest denial-of-service attack’ ever
Popular coding site Github recently suffered from a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack which the company claims is the largest denial-of-service attack in its history. Beginning Thursday, GitHub was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
Slack admits facing security breach in February
Popular work communications app Slack on Friday admitted to having faced a four day long security breach attack in February. “We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to…
China behind man-in-the-middle attacks on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla users
An anti-censorship group has said that China’s cyberspace administration is behind attacks on major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft and Mozilla urging internet companies to ramp up their security infrastructure. GreatFire.Org cited…
UK Police arrest alleged Lizard Squad member
UK Police has reportedly arrested an alleged member of the Lizard Squad, the notorious hacking group that claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks against Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live gaming networks…
FBI warns US companies of possible hacking threats
Recent reports suggest the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned energy and defense companies operating in the country of a possible attack by Iranian hackers. According to Reuters, the Bureau…
Sony taps FireEye’s Mandiant forensics unit to cleanup post cyber-attack mess
Sony has reportedly tapped in FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics unit to clean up the mess resulting out of the hacking attack which left all of its computer systems inaccessible last week. According…
Sony Pictures Entertainment network breached
Sony Pictures Entertainment reportedly at the receiving end of a hacking attack on Monday which left all of its computer systems inaccessible. According to reports, the first indication of the hacking attack…
Every sixth person on the planet has been a cyber-attack victim, new report claims
Every sixth person in the world has fallen victim to a cyber-attack, a new research states. According to a research study conducted by global information services firm Experian, one in six users…
Cyber attack exposed personal data of at least 25,000 US government workers
However, there are chances for the number of impacted employees to increase!
Heartbleed exploited in Community Health Systems data breach
In July 2014, Community Health Systems confirmed that its computer network was the target of an external, criminal cyber attack that the Company believes occurred in April and June, 2014.
US public utility hit by ‘brute force’ attack
The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that a public utility was hacked by a “sophisticated hacking group,” compromising the control system network without affecting the utility’s operations. The agency’s Industrial Control…
Namecheap bombarded with 100Gbps DDoS attack; 300 websites knocked offline for 3 hours
Namecheap, a popular domain registrar and web hosting service, was at the receiving end of a 100Gbps Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which knocked off over 300 websites for almost 3…
Akamai: China leapfrogs Indonesia as largest source of attack traffic
China has surpassed Indonesia to become the largest source of attack traffic for the third quarter of 2013 according to latest State of the Internet report from Akamai. The report notes that…