More than 90 percent of respondents in a Tripwire survey in Europe expect attacks by state-sponsored threat actors to increase in the next 12 months. Incidents like last year’s WannaCry attacks by suspected North Korean threat actors and the more recent news about Russian hackers taking control of hundreds of thousands of network routers worldwide have clearly spooked the enterprise…

An inept cyber-criminal has been given a 20-month sentence behind bars after DDoS-ing the networks of a Wisconsin city, temporarily taking out its 911 center. Randall Charles Tucker, 23, of Apache Junction, Arizona carried out the attacks on the City of Madison in 2015 as part of a wider DDoS campaign against various cities, according to the Department of Justice….

A Mexican presidential candidate’s website was overwhelmed by traffic moments after he announced it at a debate earlier this month. The candidate and his party attributed the shutdown to a cyberattack, but specialists doubt that. The incident has brought renewed attention to online efforts to influence Mexico’s election. Shortly after Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya held up a placard announcing…