Monthly Archives: January 2018

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Browser Security in Light of Cyber Attacks

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Credits: Securityboulevard

The average cost of a data breach is $7.35 million. According to a recent study by Google, third-party data breaches have exposed 3.3 billion credentials, and 7% of passwords that were part of those credentials were tied to other accounts. Unfortunately, attackers […]

By |January 23rd, 2018|Cyber News|

WEF seeks to raise international cyber security cooperation at Davos 2018

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Credits: Techworld

The World Economic Forum has published a lengthy cyber-security report in the run up to Davos 2018 that seeks to establish a baseline of common language – encouraging various international actors to come into discussion from a place of mutual […]

By |January 23rd, 2018|Cyber News|

Major UK cyber attack is ‘when, not if’, says security chief

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Credits: BBC

A major cyber attack on the UK is a case of “when, not if”, says the head of the National Cyber Security Centre.

Speaking to the Guardian, Ciaran Martin said the country had been lucky to avoid a “category one” attack […]

By |January 23rd, 2018|Cyber News|

Maharashtra police steps up fight against pirated content

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Credits: India Today

The Cyber Cell of the Maharashtra Police has started a digital crime unit that works towards systematically eliminating websites that upload pirated content.

The initiative, the first of its kind in the country, has been launched under directives of the […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

UK warned that Russian threat requires increased defence spending

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Credits: TheGuardian

Britain’s defence chief of general staff, Sir Nick Carter, is to warn that the UK is trailing Russia in terms of defence spending and capability.

Carter is to use a speech in London to enter publicly into the debate over defence […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

OnePlus has been hit by cyber attack affecting up to 40,000 customers

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Credits: ABC News

Smartphone maker OnePlus has been hit by a cyber attack affecting up to 40,000 customers and compromising their credit card information.

The Chinese company confirmed hackers had “injected” malicious code into the payments page of its website, which then accessed […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

90% of active Gmail users are vulnerable to cyber attacks

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Credits: HindustanTimes

Despite the growth of sophisticated cyber threats globally, Google has said that less than 10% of active Gmail users have enabled two-factor authentication making the remaining 90% more vulnerable to cyber attacks.

According to Google engineers, compromised passwords are the top […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

Can cyber crime be uprooted in Rwanda’s financial sector?

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Credits: newtimes

In late December last year, as most Rwandans, like the rest of the world, were in a festive mood, a local bank woke up to an electronic heist targeting billions of francs.

By the time the heist was detected, the fraudsters had […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

Cyber attacks push corporate fraud to all-time high

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Credits: FT News

Cyber attacks have pushed corporate fraud around the world to an all-time high, with information theft overtaking the appropriation of physical assets for the first time on record, according to new data.

Levels of reported fraud have gradually climbed since […]

By |January 22nd, 2018|Cyber News|

Hacker Alex Bessell jailed for cyber crime offences

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Credits: BBC

A computer hacker has been jailed for two years for committing thousands of cyber crimes, including attacks on Google and Skype.

Alex Bessell, 21, of Aigburth, Liverpool, was also convicted at Birmingham Crown Court of other offences, including money laundering.

West Midlands […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|