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Cyber Attack Aims to Manipulate Mexican Election

June 18, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

On Wednesday June 13, in the run-up to Mexico’s July 1 presidential election, a website operated by the rightist National Action Party (PAN) was taken off-line for several hours by a DDoS attack. The outage occurred at the time of a televised presidential debate, and just following a point at which the PAN candidate held up a placard with the…

World Cup could lead to surge in cyber threats

June 18, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

With the Group Stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup now well underway, security companies are warning that cybercriminals are likely to use the interest stirred up by the event to launch cyber attacks. Network and endpoint security company Sophos noted that cyber attacks often go hand in hand with major sporting events, including the World Cup, as criminals exploit…

How CIA can improve your cyber security

June 18, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

The threat of cyber-attack is increasing every year. According to the Online Trust Alliance, 2017 was the worst yet in terms attacks on business. Figures indicate that attacks doubled from 82,000 incidents in 2016 to over 159,000 - and that’s just the ones we know about. Keeping up to date with the latest cyber security threats is an almost impossible task….

Cyber-Physical Systems Are at Risk

June 15, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Cyber-physical Systems (CPSs) have become the core components of safety-critical infrastructures such as smart grid, Building Automation Networks (BANs) and water/sewage plants. CPSs bridge the cyber and the physical worlds by integrating the computing and communication capabilities of the former to monitor, model, control, and analyze processes in the latter. The communication networks employed in such Supervisory Control and Data…

Cyber attack warnings highlight need to be prepared

June 14, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Fresh warnings about the vulnerability of national infrastructure to cyber attacks show the need for securing and monitoring associated control systems connected to the internet. The commander of Britain’s Joint Forces Command has warned that UK traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure could be targeted by cyber adversaries – but industry experts say this is nothing new and something…

Website of a Mexican political opposition party hit by cyber attack

June 14, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

The website of a Mexican political opposition party was hit by a cyber attack during Tuesday’s final television debate between presidential candidates ahead of the July 1 vote, after the site had published documents critical of the leading candidate. The National Action Party (PAN) said that its website, targeting front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, likely suffered a distributed denial of…

Senate Democrats press FCC’s Pai over alleged cyber attacks on agency website

June 13, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Two Democratic senators have asked the Federal Communications Commission for further details about the supposed cyberattacks blamed with disrupting access to the FCC website in 2014 and 2017 as reports cast doubt on whether the hacks ever happened. Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday seeking answers concerning the…

New Hack Weaponizes the Web Cache

June 13, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

Researcher exploits design flaws in Web caching to take control of popular websites, frameworks - and the Mozilla Firefox browser infrastructure. A newly discovered attack forces Web cache servers to deliver malicious content to website visitors – and also exposes a major security hole in Mozilla’s Firefox browser infrastructure. James Kettle, head of research at PortSwigger Web Security, exploited security…

Tech Network Security in the Age of the Internet of Things

June 12, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

There are a lot of changes taking place in the business world today. One of the things that all businesses need to go out of their way to keep up with is cyberattacks. Most of these target traditionally unconnected devices. As we enter into a new generation of using connected, intelligent devices in the workplace, businesses are growing more productive,…

How employee behavior impacts cybersecurity effectiveness

June 12, 2018 - admin - 0 Comment

A recent OpenVPN survey discovered 25 percent of employees, reuse the same password for everything. And 23 percent of employees admit to very frequently clicking on links before verifying they lead to a website they intended to visit. Sabotaging corporate security initiatives Whether accidental or intentional, an employee’s online activities can make or break a company’s cybersecurity strategy. Take password…

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