Tagged: Computer Crime / Hacking / Cybercrime
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will travel to the Middle East, where he will seek to build partnerships on ransomware and cybersecurity as hackers wreak havoc among US industries. click here to read...
Vladimir Dunaev, 38, was a member of a cybercriminal organization that deployed a computer banking trojan and ransomware suite of malware known as “Trickbot”, the Justice Department said. click here to read full Article...
Amazon.com Inc-owned Twitch has said that last week’s data breach at the live streaming e-sports platform contained documents from its source code. Twitch said it was “confident” the incident affected only a small number...
The document sent to customers and dated on Monday said the force majeure would be implemented with immediate effect. It would impact container terminals in Durban, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. click here...
South Africa’s state-owned firm Transnet said that it had identified and isolated the source of disruption to its IT systems that impacted its container terminals. As per Reuters, the freight logistics firm was hit...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed budget includes $750 million for the government agencies hit by the SolarWinds hack to pay for cybersecurity improvements to prevent another attack. click here to read full Article Read...
“While it may take weeks to get all systems back, steady progress is being made, starting with services for the most urgent patients,” Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said on Twitter. click here to read...
Toshiba Tec Corp, which makes products such as bar code printers and is valued at $2.3 billion, was hacked by DarkSide – the group behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, its French subsidiary said. click...
The new government breaches involve a popular virtual private network (VPN) known as Pulse Connect Secure, which hackers were able to break into using some known security flaws. click here to read full Article...
U.S. President Joe Biden is nominating Chris Inglis to be the National Cyber Director and Jen Easterly to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the White House said on Monday. click...
The European Commission and other EU institutions were the target of a cyber attack last month, but there has been no evidence so far of any major information breach, a Commission spokesman said. click...
Russia poses the most acute immediate threat to the United Kingdom in cyberspace while China’s ambition to be dominant in a host of new technologies will transform the 21st Century world we live in,...
A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify federal government customers when they have a cybersecurity breach, according to a draft seen by Reuters. click here to read full...
The news magazine Der Spiegel, citing security sources, said the latest cyber-attack from Russia affected seven members of the Bundestag and 31 members of regional parliaments. click here to read full Article Read more...
The exposure of video surveillance by Verkada, a collection of riot videos from Parler, and disclosure of the Myanmar military junta’s high-tech surveillance apparatus, highlight this growing trend. click here to read full Article...
A Swiss computer hacker who has claimed credit for helping steal or distribute proprietary data from Nissan Motor Co, Intel Corp, and Verkada was indicted on Thursday, U.S. prosecutors announced. click here to read...