Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
On June 27th, 2017, a dangerous ransomware attack called Petya
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Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre’s Ciaran Martin has warned it’s only a matter of time before the UK suffers a category one (C1) cyberattack. Continue reading Serious ‘category one’ cyberattack not far off – warns security chief
One in five healthcare professionals has experienced breaches of patient data, yet many also say they’re “very confident” in their facility’s ability to protect that data against theft, according to a survey by University of Pho… Continue reading Hackers increasingly target patient records as HCPs do little to protect data – research
Adopting reliable attack methods and techniques borrowed from more evolved threat types, ransomware attained new levels of reach and damage in 2017. The following trends characterize the ransomware narrative in the past year: Three global outbreaks sho… Continue reading A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017
Adopting reliable attack methods and techniques borrowed from more evolved threat types, ransomware attained new levels of reach and damage in 2017. The following trends characterize the ransomware narrative in the past year: Three global outbreaks sho… Continue reading A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017
Do we have to be worried about Spectre and Meltdown being used for a large scale attack like Wannacry? Even though the patches coming out are being deployed to a most recent systems, there will inevitably be A LOT of systems … Continue reading Spectre and Meltdown being used in large scale attack on unpatched systems
Do we have to be worried about Spectre and Meltdown being used for a large scale attack like Wannacry? Even though the patches coming out are being deployed to a most recent systems, there will inevitably be A LOT of systems … Continue reading Spectre and Meltdown being used in large scale attack on unpatched systems
UK supermarket giant Morrisons, lost a landmark data breach court case in December after a disgruntled Morrisons employee had stolen and posted the personal records of 100,000 co-workers online, the supermarket chain was held liable for the d… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for December 2018
The U.S. government says it has evidence that North Korea was responsible for the WannaCry ransomware outbreak that infected around 300,000 computers around the world in May, disrupting operations across thousands of organizations. “After careful… Continue reading U.S. Officially Accuses North Korea for WannaCry Attack
A top White House official on Tuesday personally thanked Microsoft and Facebook for helping counter North Korean hackers and said the National Security Agency was “not at all” at fault for this year’s infamous WannaCry ransomware incident. Thomas Bossert, the president’s homeland security adviser, mentioned the two companies by name in a press conference on North Korea’s connections to WannaCry. The Trump administration publicly attributed WannaCry to North Korea for the first time yesterday. Security researchers have said the hackers behind the ransomware outbreak in May amplified its effects by using computer code from a leaked NSA hacking tool known as EternalBlue. The briefing followed the publication Monday night of an editorial by Bossert in the Wall Street Journal that was the first time the Trump administration attributed the WannaCry outbreak to North Korea. Bossert broadly cited “evidence” without describing it outright. Statements shared by Facebook and Microsoft with CyberScoop imply that the companies’ efforts against North Korean hackers […]
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