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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Weathering The Cyber Storm
News How prepared is the United States to defend against a cyberattack? Last week, Purdy oversaw the first large-scale mock cyberattack, aimed at gauging the US' readiness to handle computer-based threats to critical infrastructure.
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
VeriSign: Cybersecurity Starts With Schools
News The Internet has withstood major assaults to bring the system crashing down, but each new cyberattack raises the spectre of a doomsday scenario. Our opinion is that a concerted cyberattack is going to be coupled with a physical attack.
[January 4, 2005, 13:15]
US Government Unveils Cybersecurity Plan
News In addition, the plan calls for law enforcement and national security agencies to create a system to detect a cyberattack leveled against the nation. Speaking to a crowd made up of information technology chief executives, the media and...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
Blended Attacks On The Increase
News Perhaps indicative of the part 'operator error' can play in enabling a cyberattack, such as a virus outbreak, is the fact that Symantec's research revealed Friday lunchtimes to be the most common times for a severe cyberattack to begin.
[February 4, 2003, 12:03]
How Sharing Data 'advances Privacy'
News You have to do that as a first line of defence, but the cyberattack is easer to mount. I don't want Osama bin Laden to mount a cyberattack, and when the company reports on the attack to the government, bin Laden finds a lawyer somewhere to file a...
[February 27, 2004, 10:35]
Estonia's Cyberattacks: Lessons Learned, A Year On
News Chertoff adds that the "thousands of entry points into federal civilian domains", plus the "uneven" way federal agencies protect their assets and the slow response to intrusions into US government networks means there are constraints as to how...
[May 1, 2008, 14:04]
Gartner Warns Against Sticking Solely To Microsoft
News Exclusive reliance on Microsoft's Windows operating system could make companies vulnerable to greater damage during a cyberattack, according to an upcoming report from business-technology consultancy Gartner.
[October 9, 2003, 10:15]
CA Reveals 'high Risk' Flaw
News A high-risk security flaw in several of Computer Associates' antivirus products could put users at risk of cyberattack, the software vendor warned on Monday. The flaw lies in the scanning engine used in CA's enterprise and consumer antivirus...
[May 24, 2005, 17:40]
Symantec 'expecting Net Attack'
News A serious flaw in Cisco software puts computer networks at risk of cyberattack and has prompted security vendor Symantec to raise its Internet threat level. A vulnerability in Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS) could be exploited to crash...
[September 8, 2005, 9:10]
