Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New artificial intelligence techniques can help battle old methods of hacking. Although cyber attacks against businesses like the recent one against Yahoo are increasing, hackers are using the same techniques they always have. They’re just doing it lot more and The…
Tripwire Study: Energy Sector IT Professionals Overconfident in Cyber Security Capabilities as Attacks Increase
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, today announced the results of an extensive study conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research. The study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the The…
Cybersecurity Week ramps up public awareness of cyber attacks and data leaks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans China officially kicked off its third Cybersecurity Week on Sept. 19 in Wuhan, Hubei province. The event, which aims to raise public awareness of Internet security issues, will run from Sept. 19 to 25. Jointly held by six top-level state The…
Hackers employ sophisticated DDoS attacks to probe the net’s infrastructure
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A series of sophisticated DDoS attacks have occurred for over a year in order to find weaknesses in the defenses of key net firms. A security expert is warning that unidentified hackers have been carrying out a campaign using distributed The…
911 is Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks: Hackers Prove How Easy it is!
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans America’s people centric and globally popular emergency helpline number 911 has been found to be easily vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks. Mordechai Guri, Yisroel Mirsky, Yuval Elovici, researchers at the Cyber Security Research Centre of Ben The…
15 Years After 9/11 Attacks, Classroom Approaches to Topic Take Many Forms – Curriculum Matters – Education Week
Fifteen years after the attacks on September 11, most K-12 students have no personal memories of the event. View full post on Education Week: Bullying #pso #htcs #b4inc Read More The post 15 Years After 9/11 Attacks, Classroom Approaches to Topic Take Many Forms – Curriculum Matters – Education Week…
Chinese hackers accused of ‘politically motivated’ malware attacks against Hong Kong
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A state-sponsored hacking group believed to be aligned with the People’s Republic of China has been accused of targeting two Hong Kong government agencies in a “politically motivated” attack just prior to the legislative elections which took place on 4 The…
UK is second most targeted nation for DDoS attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The UK gets hit by 9.3 per cent of the world’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – second only to the United States. DDoS attacks deliberately overload a company’s network with fake traffic, primarily from bots, forcing it to The…
PDP apologises for fueling social media attacks, regrets “toxic” comments
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Nigeria’s main opposition political party, the PDP, on Tuesday said the tone of conversation amongst Nigerians on social media had taken a disturbing dimension. As a result, the party took responsibility for the role it played in fostering the “toxic” atmosphere,…
Cleveland cyber firm predicts GOP Convention will draw cyber attacks
According to the CEO of Stealthcare, a Cleveland-based cyber security firm, the next major cyber security attack will likely be tied to the GOP Convention, although he believes it won’t come from hacktivitsts upset with Donald Trump but rather from a state-sponsored group. Jeremy Samide, CEO of Stealthcare, points to…
