Tag: Cyber Attack
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Cyber threats: Why you need to backup your Smartphone now
With the growing numbers of cyber attacks, it is advisable to do a phone backup every now and then, especially as smartphones are more susceptible to these attacks. Some things can’t be replaced if we lose or damage our phone. If you lose or damage your phone, you do not want to be left mopping…
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China rolls out national cyber-attack response plan
China’s top cyber authority has formalised a new nationwide cyber-attack response plan on Tuesday. The country seeks to ramp up protection in the face of increasingly sophisticated global ransomware scare. The plan requires provinces to upgrade networks and construct expert response teams as part of the centralised reporting system, said the Cyberspace Administration of China…
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IS terrorist group downs US govt websites
An Islamic State terrorist group has been reported to have hacked into United States government-owned websites, leaving the message “You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries” on the websites. The message ended with “I love the Islamic state”. Many websites, including the…
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British Airways IT shutdown emerging reports
Emerging reports reveal a contractor doing maintenance work at a British Airways data centre inadvertently switched off the power supply, knocking out the airline’s computer systems leaving 75,000 people stranded last weekend. The Times newspaper, reporting this on Friday and quoting a BA source, the newspaper said the power supply unit that sparked the IT…
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Manhunt underway for hackers behind global WannaCry Ransomware cyberattack
International investigators hunted Saturday for those behind an unprecedented cyber-attack that affected systems in dozens of countries, including at banks, hospitals and government agencies, as security experts sought to contain the fallout. The assault, which began Friday and was being described as the biggest-ever cyber ransom attack, struck state agencies and major companies around the…
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Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber-attacks
US President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber-attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on January 20, the White House said on Friday. In October, the US government formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber-attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the…