Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber red teams are still able to gain the upper hand in major training exercises, and combatant command missions “remain at risk when subjected to cyber-attacks emulating an advanced nation-state adversary,” according to a Department of Defense report. The Office ……
Cyber security expert shares ‘lessons learned’ in recent cyber attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans With some 30,000 people, Carroll County in northwest Arkansas may be fairly small but that does not make the data it holds any less valuable to a hacker. “The offenders were to the best of anybody’s knowledge in India,” said The…
Computer hackers target Saudi Arabia in series of virus attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers have reportedly conducted a series of attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting the agency running the country’s airports and hitting five additional targets. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the attacks took place over the last two weeks, citing two people The…
Ransomware Attacks On Small Businesses Eight Times Higher
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Following the news that Kaspersky recently released figures on ransomware attacks against SMBs, FalconStor’s UK & Ireland Managing Director commented below how to recover from an attack if businesses are caught out. Even though research from Kaspersky shows a rise The…
Hackers Descend on the G20 Summit in China, Conducting Over 133,000 Malicious Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cybersecurity discussions were a top priority at the G20 Summit 2016, a global economic leadership forum attended by world leaders from 20 major economies; yet the event itself encountered a staggering number of attempted cyber attacks between September 3-6. NSFOCUS, The…
Healey: State ready for hacker attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Attorney General Maura Healey said the threat of hackers attempting to influence or disrupt the U.S. elections this fall is something that should worry all Americans, but said backup plans are in place for Bay State ballots if something should The…
South Korean Firms Face Attacks Of ‘White’ Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans South Korean firms are under fire for not being careful about computer hackers and losing some data to the foreign companies. Lee Jung-hoon, one of the top “white” hackers in South Korea, was allegedly leaving the Samsung SDS on November The…
Small companies are not immune to costly cyber attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Just under half of such businesses have adequate cyber insurance coverage Managers of small and medium businesses who assume that only the biggest companies are targeted by cyber attacks have already made their first mistake. A third of small British The…
Hacker group Anonymous attacks Dalradian Gold website over Sperrins mine
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Irish arm of the online hacker group Anonymous claims to have brought down Dalradian Gold’s Northern Ireland website in protest against the company. The site was reported to have been crashed on September 24, but it now back up The…
White House Tried Barring Senior Lawmakers From Blaming Russia for Cyber Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The White House attempted to prevent top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees from publicly confirming the Russian government was behind the recent cyber attacks against political computer systems. Senior administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff The…