Category: Cyber Security

The Australian Parliament said that hackers had tried to break into its computer network, which includes lawmakers’ email archives, but there were no visible indications that data had been stolen. Australia is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller..

Records of as many as 14,200 people with HIV and their 2,400 contacts have been “illegally disclosed online”, Singapore’s health ministry said in a statement, marking the second cyberattack the city-state has suffered in a year. A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver that…

The newly installed U.S. Congress is expected to see a fresh effort to develop new regulations for big technology firms, with a focus on tougher enforcement of privacy and data protection. The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States. The legislature consists of two chambers: The…

Facebook has revealed that due to a software bug, nearly 7 million Facebook users’ photos were exposed to a much wider audience than intended. These pictures also included the ones that were hidden or not posted.Facebook, a social media and social networking site, was launched by Mark…

Iran-linked hackers known as Charming Kitty targeted private emails of individuals who are involved in economic and military sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as politicians, civil and human rights activists and journalists around the world. Cyberspying, or cyber espionage, is the act or practice of…

Hackers stole data from as many as 500 million guests who made reservations at Marriott’s Starwood properties. At the same time, question-and-answer website Quora had the data of 100 million users compromised. A data breach is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or…

German security officials have detected a fresh cyber attack on the email accounts of German lawmakers, the military and several German embassies by the Russian hacker group Snake. In February 2018, the German government confirmed that it had suffered a large cyberattack which infiltrated…

Dell Inc said that it reset passwords for all accounts on its Dell.com online electronics store on Nov. 14, five days after it discovered and stopped hackers who were attempting to steal customer data. Dell is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops…

The Israeli company NSO Group Technologies offered Saudi Arabia a surveillance system a few months before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began his purge of regime opponents, and was allegedly used to track murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have any official diplomatic….

Russia’s new technique for stealing data involves sending “weaponised documents” as email attachments that retrieve system information about the target’s computer, which is then sent back to a remote server set up by the hackers. A January 2017 assessment by the United States’ Office of the Director of National…