On March 19 of this year, hackers believed to be working for the Russian government sent an email to Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The phishing email that Podesta received contained a URL, created with the popular Bitly shortening service, pointing to a longer URL that, to an untrained eye, looked like a Google […]
A second full internet shutdown has cut off 6 million citizens in Turkey’s Southeast regions according to network reachability analysis, following yesterday’s incident that shut off much of the country. A second full internet shutdown has cut off 6 million citizens in Turkey’s Southeast regions according to network reachability analysis, following yesterday’s incident that shut off much […]
Recently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin was dumped on the Internet after purportedly being obtained by a Ukrainian hacking group calling itself CyberHunta. The cache shows that the Putin government communicated with separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine, receiving lists of casualties and expense reports […]
Experts said that the cyberattacks using the internet of things (IoT) is a taste of disruptions to come. The attack, which affected a number of major websites primarily in east coast of the United States, reportedly used Internet-enabled cameras as a platform for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The attackers exploited manufacturer-set passwords […]
A fairly large number of critical infrastructure organizations have been found relying on unsecured pagers for communication between employees, which security experts believe could potentially expose them to hack and espionage. In a report by Trend Micro, a L.A.-based security software company, researchers said: “Our research on unencrypted pager messages led us to discover which […]
