cyber attack Archive

There have been many significant cyber security incidents in recent years, and it is difficult to rank them in terms of their importance or impact. Here is a list of ten examples of significant cyber security incidents that have occurred in the past few years: The WannaCry

In the last period I’ve seen a lot of big companies developing their personal Cyber Attack maps. Interesting for me was to find out that even the US and EU governments implied in these projects (probably because they finally understood the importance of cyber security). Below you’ll

The Washington Post published the list of most wanted hackers, offering a total of 4.2 million dollars for them. Russian Yevgeny Mikhailovich Bogacev, dubbed ZeuS comes first, offering $ 3 million for his capture. He is accused of Trojans used to steal bank account details, passwords and

Personal data of 18 million current, former and potential employees US government was accessed after a cyber attack to the Office for Personnel Management (OPM). The number of people affected is four times more than the recognized public agency, reported CNN.  The estimate of 18 million was made

Increasingly,more and more hackers offer help in spreading Islamic State terror network messages, attacking the websites of media organizations, according to security company FireEye. “Supporters help the terrorist organization Islamic State for opportunistic attacks and more sophisticated cyber operations”, specifies the company FireEye. French TV5 Monde station

IRS (Internal Revenue Service), believes that the hackers who stole personal data of 100,000 US taxpayers would come from Russia. The attacks took place over a period of four months and authorities have found that it contained some cyber criminals in the country led by Vladimir Putin, shows

Hackers stole data from Bundestag during a cyber attack committed two weeks ago, a spokeswoman confirmed for the lower house of the German Federal Parliament, but it was unclear who is behind the attack, reports Deutsche Welle website. Spokeswoman said that several data leakage was detecting. But it is

When it comes to find some security holes, people employed to break the information system of a company starts with what is often the clearest and greatest vulnerability. A professional hacker, employee of a large company in Silicon Valley, tells Business Insider which is the easiest way

The Bitdefender company, a Romanian IT security solutions, recently launched in the United States the hardware security solution for families, Bitdefender Box. The product incorporates technologies based on 21 patents registered by the Romanian team of researchers from Bitdefender. Bitdefender Box is considered by analysts as a revolutionary

The New York Times has reported that Russian hackers, who managed to access the White House computer system, were able to read President Obama’s unclassified emails. The breach was more intrusive than they admitted. “The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department’s unclassified system, do not appear to have