Articles Tagged with ''cyber attack''

For the second time this month, the North Korean news and information site Uriminzokkiri.com has been taken down.

A recent study by ClikCloud found though more than three-quarters of small businesses believe their companies are safe from hackers, 20% of all cyberattacks hit small businesses with 250 or fewer employees.

 

Cyberattackers have attacked South Korean banks and broadcasters, infecting networks with a malicious program that slowed or shut systems down.

Requests for 2,500 absentee ballots, many originating from a few IP addresses overseas, caught the attention of fraud-detection software and election officials as the first cyberattack on an electronic election process. 

Hundreds of terabytes of data have been stolen from U.S. and other foreign companies and governments, Mandiant's report states. 

Cyber attacks originating in China have been discovered to spy on economic efforts at U.S. businesses, especially those in finance, technology and aerospace.

A vulnerability in a school records system could reveal the home address, social insurance number, telephone number and class schedule of any student enrolled, but when Hamed Al-Khabaz revealed and tested the flaw, he was expelled.

A lack of early security training for programmers is partly to blame, researchers say. 

The popular office phones can be hacked using only a viable Internet connection, found researchers at Columbia University.

The rise in global security incidents, diminished budgets and downsized security programs have left organizations to deal with security risks that are neither well-understood nor consistently addressed. Executives around the world feel confident that they’re winning the high-stakes game of information security despite the growing number of obstacles, according to The Global State of Information Security® Survey2013 by PwC U.S. in conjunction with CIO and CSO magazines.