Cyber attacks on Hong Kong universities increasing as state-backed hackers target city in the wake of Occupy Central
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Cyber attacks on Hong Kong universities are on the rise amid fresh fears that state-backed hackers are the main culprits, with one campus admitting that it is fighting an unprecedented number of daily intrusions. Top security experts have warned of a noticeable rise in the number […]
Cyber-crime rapidly increasing with thousands of Turks being targeted
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Consumer Issues Association (TÜSODER) President Aydın Ağaoğlu states that on a daily basis 10,000 mobile phone and internet users fall into the traps set up by fraudsters. Stating that the number of scams is growing rapidly, Ağaoğlu adds that he gets close to 200 calls per […]
Cyber-crime awareness increasing beyond CTOs amid regulatory scrutiny
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Awareness of cyber-crime at fund managers is moving beyond chief technology officers (CTOs) and IT personnel with a growing number of portfolio managers and other senior executives taking a growing interest. “Historically, it was typically the CTOs and IT staff […] For more information go to […]
NATO concerned by the increasing online breach
The data breach and the hacking boosted on internet like never before. The emails got hacked and the websites went off. Estonian IT security professionals also faced the enormous and well designed online attack, which was one of its kinds. The whole team is trying its best to tackle the issue. Read More…. For […]
Round up: Spying, Drones, Spills Everywhere, Increasing Cyberattacks, and Globalized Revolt
We’re going to start publishing a round-up of important news, videos and events we think vital to our followers, particularly related to activism around the world. It’s likely we’ll make these posts on Sunday. We didn’t have enough time to really ponder how to format it, but since so much happened last week, we threw […]
CO2 exposure in public places increasing danger for emergency responders
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: CO2 canister New generation technology that delivers Carbon dioxide (CO2) to soda fountains in restaurants and other commercial applications could be a hidden danger to emergency responders, warned a memo circulated to emergency responders this summer by the Los Angeles Joint Regional Intelligence Center. Homepage position: 10 […]
Latest drug haul emphasizes increasing sea-borne smuggling, says Coast Guard
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Cutter Aspen unloads The seizure of four tons of marijuana from a ship in the Pacific Ocean 160 miles west of Los Angeles on July 26, is only the latest in a record year of water-borne enforcement actions in the area, said the U.S. Coast Guard. San […]
M-Trends #3 – RATs! Increasing Use of Publicly Available Malware in Targeted Attacks
I was somewhat unnerved when I saw the evidence for our #3M-Trend this year: the use of publicly available malware in targeted attacks is increasing. After all, when I first started learning about the Advanced … View full post on National Cyber Security
Increasing malware and lax security biggest fears for users: Sophos
67 per cent of people worldwide feel that malware is now on the rise compared to what it was in 2010, according to security vendor, Sophos. The recent report, titled Security Threat Report 2012, made the discovery after people were asked to identify what they consider to be today’s biggest threats on the Internet. In […]
Social media increasing malware attacks: Survey
A survey done by web security company Websense revealed that malware attacks are on the rise at the workplace, thanks to increased usage of social media. It said that 52 per cent of organisations had experienced an increase in malware attacks as a direct result of employees’ use of social media. Over 4,600 IT and […]