Yearly Archives: 2018

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$530 Mln in XEM Stolen From Coincheck Can Be Traced, NEM Team Confirms

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Credits: cointelegraph

This week, $534 mln worth of XEM, the native cryptocurrency of NEM, was stolen from a major Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. On January 27, merely hours after the hacking attack was announced, developers behind NEM created an automated tagging system to […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

Kuwait sets up cyber security team to foil hackers’ attacks

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Credits: ABC NEWS

Kuwait has set up a taskforce to combat hacking and protect government departments and other vital enterprises, according to Al Qabas newspaper.

Eight officers specialised in cyber security will provide technical round-the-clock surveillance to protect vital national information infrastructure against any […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

Will Big Data Tech Save Cyber Security Analysts?

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Credits: HLS

Most large organizations have billions of security-related logs per day and security analysts need to be able to automatically and intelligently parse critical data and cope with the growing cyber threats.

A new security data lake that enables organizations to easily […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

ATM makers warn of “jackpotting” cyber attacks on US machines

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Credits: TheNational

Diebold Nixdorf and NCR, two of the world’s largest ATM makers, have warned that cyber criminals are targeting US cash machines with tools that force them to spit out cash in hacking schemes known as “jackpotting”.

The two ATM makers did not identify […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

IIT smart grid expert talks about solutions to power outages, pollution, cyber security breaches at Purdue Northwest speaker series

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Credits: nwitimes

Municipalities and their residents face major challenges including power outages, pollution and cyber security breaches now and in the future.

Creating one system known as the Smart Grid can manage the electrical grid, natural gas supply, telecommunications, traffic flow, public works and […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

Government to set up apex cyber crime coordination centre

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Credits: IndiaTimes

To deal with cyber crimes such as financial frauds, circulation of communal and pornographic contents, the Union Home Ministry is planning to set up an apex coordination centre and has asked states to establish a similar mechanism in every district.

It […]

By |January 28th, 2018|Cyber News|

Cryptocurrency mined by hacking YouTube advertisements

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Credits: Deccanchronicle

This kind of mining is actually not good for the computers health as it drains the power resources, which in turn affects the performance.

YouTube advertisements were carrying cryptocurrency miners throughout this week. The software seems to have invaded the video […]

By |January 27th, 2018|Cyber News|

Hackers steal $530M from Japanese crypto exchange

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Credits: NYPost

A Japanese exchange has lost $530 million in cryptocurrency because of hacking, according to Japanese media reports.

The Coincheck exchange said on its website Friday that it had halted sales and withdrawals of the currency, which is called NEM. It later […]

By |January 27th, 2018|Cyber News|

Dutch spies ‘caught Russian election hackers on camera’

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Credits: Telegraph

Dutch spies reportedly broke into computers used by a Russian hacking group that interfered in the US election, even watching the Kremlin-backed outfit on their own office surveillance cameras.

In an extraordinary counter-espionage operation agents in the Netherlands penetrated the systems of […]

By |January 27th, 2018|Cyber News|

Is the Army ready to transform its missile defense force?

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Credits: DefenseNews

The Army is coming out with a new missile defense strategy this summer and the Pentagon is expected to release an overarching missile defense review in short order. Combined, the initiatives will guide the way the future air-and-missile defense force will operate.

New thinking about […]

By |January 27th, 2018|Cyber News|