Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker in his mid-20’s who used the motto “get rich or die trying” on social media has been linked to a series of cyberattacks against global companies in the energy, construction, mining, oil and infrastructure sectors that were initially believed…
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…
No nation should have hegemony over internet: Xi Jinping
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In a veiled attack on the US, Chinese President Xi Jinping today said no nation should pursue “Internet hegemony” and asserted that countries have the right to independently choose their own path of cyber development and regulations. Addressing the opening ceremony…
Which nation is the most prolific hacker?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans State sponsored hacking is, truth be told, something of a mixed bag of motives, capability and success. It can be quite difficult, even for government agency and IT security professionals who spend much of their time engrossed in such things, to…
America’s Incarceration Nation Roughly 40 percent of the…
America’s Incarceration Nation Roughly 40 percent of the incarcerated population is of African descent, another 20 percent is of Hispanic descent, and the remaining 40 percent are Caucasian or mixed. For the average American, this means that one’s odds of spending time in Incarceration Nation depend greatly on gender and…
Prediction: Our nation gets serious about demonstrably improving personal resilience in 2014
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Clemface Asks The Nation: ‘What do you think of sex on the first date?’
‘Clemface Asks the Nation’ is an ongoing viral series, where presenter Jordan Louison, roams the streets of the UK to find out the answers to some well conte… Read More…. View full post on Select From Our Menu
UK now a top ten nation for hacking traffic, logs show
A growing number of attempted hacks and probes has propelled the UK into the global top ten for this type of traffic, the NCC group has reported. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
2012-03-22 – High Schoolers from Around the Nation Compete for Chance to Become Cyber Security Superstars
High Schoolers from Around the Nation Compete for Chance to Become Cyber Security Superstars View full post on SANS Press Room View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
Bad new world: Cyber risk and the future of our nation
In September 2007, in a remote laboratory in Idaho, researchers began to show that that picture had begun to change, dramatically and irreversibly. Dubbed “Aurora,” the researchers’ project demonstrated the ability of a cyber hacker to destroy physical equipment–in this case a generator used to create electricity for the power…