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Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack
Blog Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan is under cyberattack, according to Information Warfare Monitor. The attacks bear similarities to attacks launched by Russia against Estonia and Georgia. Since last week Kyrgyzstan has been under a "massive denial of...
[January 29, 2009, 12:41]
US official: We are under cyberattack all the time
News US defence secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that the US is "under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day", and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of cyber experts it employs to ward off such attacks.
[April 22, 2009, 9:51]
Pentagon forks out $100m for cyberattack cleanup
News The Defense Department was forced to take up to 1,500 computers offline last year because of a cyberattack, and it banned the use of external removable storage devices because of their ability to spread viruses.
[April 8, 2009, 9:41]
CIA: Cyberattack caused multi-city blackout
News The CIA has said that a cyberattack caused a power blackout in multiple cities in a country outside the US. Security training body the Sans Institute reported the CIA's disclosure on Friday. CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue told a Sans Institute...
[January 21, 2008, 11:58]
Energy industry seen as prime cyberattack target
News When asked which industry is the biggest target for cyberattack, critical infrastructure insiders in the US, Canada and Europe point to the energy sector. The energy industry is also the most vulnerable to cyberattacks and would have the most...
[November 12, 2008, 11:14]
Cyberattack threat spurs US rethink on power grids
News I believe America is disturbingly vulnerable to a cyberattack against the electric grid that could cause significant consequences to our nation's critical infrastructure," said James Langevin, a member of the Committee on Homeland Security who...
[September 15, 2008, 13:35]
Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
News The Georgian embassy in the UK has accused forces within Russia of launching a co-ordinated cyberattack against Georgian websites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
[August 11, 2008, 13:51]
International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses
News He added that Cyber Storm II had been a "beneficial" exercise for New Zealand in determining who needed to be contacted in the event of a cyberattack. The exercise, which began on 10 March, 2008, was designed to test the readiness of the US, the UK...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
Manchester Police come under cyberattack
News A statement issued said: "GMP has been subject to a cyberattack using emails in an attempt to disrupt GMP's service to the public. A UK police chief has been bombarded with thousands of threatening emails in a denial of service attack aimed at...
[May 3, 2005, 15:40]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
News A GMP spokesman said: "Enquiries are still ongoing in relation to the cyberattack against GMP's email system earlier this year. Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) have been called in to help investigate an attempted...
[July 12, 2005, 17:25]
Cyberattack strikes online forum
Talkback ezboard claimed to have got the FBI involved at the time of the alleged hack. Funny how no-one appears to have been caught.
[July 26, 2006, 17:27]
Global group to provide cyberattack early warnings
News Announcing its launch at the World Cyber Security Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Impact said that while the internet brings business and societal benefits, international efforts, including a cyberattack "early-warning system", were needed to...
[May 21, 2008, 13:35]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
Talkback The specialised enforcement units. The call for backup is a natural reaction to a cyber crime of this nature. It is not possible to train all the officers of the law enforcement agencies to deal with cyber crimes.
[July 13, 2005, 8:16]
Australian police probe government cyberattack
News The Australian Federal Police has been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur at 7pm tonight. A spokesperson from the Attorney General's Department (AGD) on Wednesday said it...
[September 9, 2009, 12:01]
Antiracism site target of cyberattack
News The Anti-Defamation League Web site was the target of an anti-Israel attack this week, the latest in a string of cyber break-ins related to the violence in the Middle East. The ADL Web site was taken over for about 20 minutes Tuesday by hackers who...
[December 28, 2000, 11:30]
Four out of five Web sites fail cyberattack test
News Out of three million Web sites tested worldwide, 80 percent have been given the thumbs down when it comes to security vulnerability, exposing a large number of organisations and governments to hackers, criminals and vandals.
[May 3, 2001, 15:30]
US plans cyberattack early-warning system
News At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, US Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early-warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start.
[April 10, 2008, 15:05]
Who is at risk from cyberattack?
News Banking and utilities are two of the most at-risk sectors when it comes to the threat of attack by malicious code, such as hacks, worms and viruses. However, many may be surprised to hear that charities and not-for-profit organisations also feature...
[February 5, 2003, 15:21]
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
News The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. The attack, which is believed by some experts to have been politically motivated, began on Saturday, according to a blog post by...
[July 21, 2008, 17:12]
Cyberattack strikes online forum
News Web bulletin boards hosted by Ezboard are slowly coming back online after being hit by a hacker, the company's chief said. In what CEO Robert Labatt called "a very precise and malicious Internet attack," all of the historical postings on all of...
[June 10, 2005, 10:15]
