Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A suspected cyber attack has forced the termination of a crucial vote on a new wage deal by Qantas’ long-haul pilots, which the airline wants passed before it will commit to buying a fleet of new planes. The vote on an in-principle…
Cyber attack on US power grid could result in losses up to $1 trillion
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans When, on Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading, The Wall Street Journal website went down, and United Airlines grounded flights – all practically at the same time – it seemed like a well orchestrated cyber attack had been launched…
How to prepare for and respond to a cyber attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to bypass security measures. In a survey conducted by the SANS Institute on the behalf of Guidance Software, 56% of respondents assumed they have been breached or will be soon, compared with 47% last…
Is St. Louis under cyber attack? Probably not
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Is St. Louis at the center of a cyber attack from China? A company that monitors threats on the internet shows a large amount of traffic headed into the area from China. They say this map…
Businesses of All Sizes Open to Cyber Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If our federal government can get hacked, so can you. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management admitted its databases had been breached. In other words, 4 million federal employee records were stolen. As evidenced by other recent breaches at Sony, Target…
Hacking Team falls prey to hack attack. Why hackers get hacked.
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans An Italian cybersecurity firm was hacked on a grand scale late on Sunday evening. While the full extent of the hack is not yet known, the company has seen over 400 gigabytes of company information shared online over the weekend. The…
Polish Airline Cancels Flights After Hacker Attack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Poland’s LOT airline has been forced to cancel around 10 foreign and domestic flights after hackers attacked its computers. Airline spokesman Adrian Kubicki said the hacker attack temporarily paralyzed LOT’s computers at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport on Sunday, disrupting the processing…
Attack as the best form of defence – should we consider unleashing cyber security teams’ offensive talents?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber crime cost the world economy $400bn in 2014, according to a report by McAfee. Whilst this only represents a small percentage of the global GDP, it’s a significant number. Meanwhile, the continuing increase in attacks represents a fundamental risk to…
What Is The Most Interesting Attack Made On A Website?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans While not specifically a website hack, probably the most impressive Internet-related hack I can think of involved was “Internet Census 2012″, performed by a security researcher/hacker took over many, many embedded devices in order to create what may have been the…
How a growing cyber attack industry is good news for investors
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Whilst cyber attacks continue to make the news, a new report published by Capital News Desk suggests that around 70 percent of organizations choose to keep their security incidents quiet. It also reveals that around 73 percent of large organizations have been…