Yearly Archives: 2018

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Pentagon considers nuclear response to retaliate for large cyber attacks

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Why use hack-back tactics when you can drop a nuke on your cyber attackers?

According to the draft for the Pentagon’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the U.S. would consider using nuclear weapons to respond to non-nuclear attacks.

While the Pentagon’s proposed policy change suggests […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|

Govt launches Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative in partnership with top tech companies

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Credits: India Times

The founding partners of the consortium are leading IT companies, Intel, Redhat and Dimension Data for the initiative which is the first public-private partnership of its kind.

Organisations such as Cert-In, NIC, NASSCOM and the FIDO Alliance, CISCO and consultancy […]

By |January 20th, 2018|Cyber News|

Threat actors are delivering the Zyklon Malware exploiting three Office vulnerabilities

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Credits: securityaffairs

Researchers at FireEye reported the malware was used in attacks against organizations in the telecommunications, financial, and insurance sectors.

Zyklon has been spotted for the first time in 2016, it is a publicly available malware that could be used for multiple purposes such as espionage […]

By |January 18th, 2018|Cyber News|

Mirai Okiru: New DDoS botnet targets ARC-based IoT devices

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Credits: csoonline

Well, this is bad…very bad. Mirai malware and its many variants which have targeted CPU architectures in the past, is now targeting the second most popular type of CPU core – ARC processors.

Meet Mirai Okiru, the Mirai variant targeting ARC processors, which […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

Cyber insurance in the 2018 regulatory landscape

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Credits: csoonline

The year 2017 had no shortage of headlines pertaining to cyber incidents.  On the commercial side, you have the Equifax and Uber cases and on the government side, you have the DHS event.  These cyber incidents ran parallel to awareness campaigns run out of the […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

Centre plans setting up of Cyber Warrior Police Force to tackle internet-related crimes

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Credits: HindustanTimes

The government has decided to set up a Cyber Warrior Police Force (CWPF) to tackle internet-related crimes such as cyber threats, child pornography and online stalking.

The CWPF is likely to operate under the National Information Security Policy and Guidelines wing […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

GPS System Vulnerable To Hacking Attack That Could Cripple Bay Area Economy

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Credits: cbslocal

Imagine an attack in the Bay Area that shuts down the bridges and BART; where the ATMs and your credit cards don’t work and planes, trains and Uber are no longer available.

The bad guy is a hacker at an undisclosed location […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

Cyber-attack shuts down US Regional Hospital’s online system

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Credits: scmagazineuk

A cyber-attack that left computer screens at Hancock Regional Hospital in Greenfield, Indiana, USA, with a ransom message for bitcoin has caused the entire network at the hospital to go offline to stop damage to the data of the patients.

After the […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

As Cyber Threats To The Electric Grid Rise, Utilities & Regulators Seek Solutions

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Credits: forbes

The U.S. electric grid is increasingly dependent on the internet for operations, and as a result it is also increasingly susceptible to cyberattacks. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how such attacks might cripple a broad swath of the U.S. […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|

BlackBerry launches new cyber security product, Jarvis

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Credits: ABC News

Manually scanning code for issues is nearly impossible, but automakers have to make sure their software is working correctly, and with the help of BlackBerry Ltd.’snew cyber security product Jarvis, that will be much easier.

Announced today during the keynote address […]

By |January 17th, 2018|Cyber News|