Wired – December 2, 2017 ALSO IN THIS ARTICLE: VERSIONING ISSUES WITH PATCH RELEASES: Apple rushed to push out a necessary update on Wednesday, but botched it a bit; if you hadn’t yet updated to macOS 10.13.1, but had gotten the patch, your eventual jump to 10.13.1 would reintroduce the “root” bug PREVENTATIVE: a new […]
Category Archives: Cyber Attacks
How Australia is Fighting Cyber Crime
Spamfighter.com – October 11, 2017 PREVENTION: there will be penalty for states which break international norms in cyberspace and it is ready to take ‘military action’ to combat malicious cyber attacks PREVENTION: Australia already engages in cyber policy and cybersecurity meetings with countries like China, Canada, Indonesia, India, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom, […]
Report: Power Supply Interruption Biggest Cyber-Attack Concern
Infosecurity Magazine – October 6, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: many utilities features control systems that work on old or vulnerable operating systems… without sufficient processing power to run effective virus scans… a lack of encryption … limited or no security for end points such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and intelligent end devices (IEDs) IMPACT: 63% of […]
Ghana lost 50 million dollars to cyber-attack in 2016
BusinessGhana – September 23, 2017 COST: Ghana lost a total of 50 million dollars ROOT CAUSE: cyber-attack in 2016 FOLLOW UP: workshop would equip participants with the necessary knowledge on how best to enhance cyber security and protect corporate data within their various organisations
Millions of Instagram users may have been affected by latest hack attack, social media giant warns
The Independent — September 2, 2017 ROOT CAUSE: a bug on Instagram that could be used to access some people’s email address and phone number even if they were not public FOLLOW UP: We quickly fixed the bug, and have been working with law enforcement on the matter. AFFECTED: potentially several million accounts… including A-list […]
Pro-Hillary Clinton Site Hit With Cyber Attack
The Daily Caller — September 5, 2017 IMPACT: The cyber assault caused Verrit to stop loading for several hours ROOT CAUSE: a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
Cat food shortage after cyber attack hits one of UK’s biggest suppliers
Metro – August 24, 2017 AFFECTED: caused a shortage of cat food AFFECTED: Servers needed to be rebuilt, historical data put back on the system and files restored ROOT CAUSE: A cyber attack