Yearly Archives: 2018

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UK warned that Russian threat requires increased defence spending

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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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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|

TV stars settle ‘six-figure’ hacking claims

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The publishers of The Sun and the defunct News of the World have settled more claims for phone hacking.

News Group Newspapers offered payments to Coronation Street actor Jimmi Harkishin, TV presenter Kate Thornton, comedian Vic Reeves and former Spice Girls […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|

Who Is Selling Hacking Subscriptions to Governments?

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Credits: theatlantic

Just north of a perennially jammed arterial, sandwiched between the French embassy complex and a university administration building, a beige monolith with a vertical slash of reflective windows is set back from the road, guarded by a row of high barriers […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|

North Korea accused of hacking cryptocurrency exchanges selling Bitcoin and Monero

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Credit: metro

North Korea has been accused of hacking South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges in a series of cyber-heists. A mysterious hacking squad called the Lazarus Group is thought to have launched operations aimed at cryptocurrency businesses based in democratic South Korea.

Although it’s often hard […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|

Hacking campaign using fake apps traced to Lebanon

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Credits: FT News

A spying campaign that uses fake versions of encrypted apps to hack smartphones has been traced to Lebanon’s intelligence agency, revealing the growing capabilities of nation-state hackers beyond the global superpowers.

The hackers created fake versions of WhatsApp, Telegram and […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|