The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics' internal servers crashed in the attack, as did public Wi-Fi. Officials confirmed the attack, but won't identify the perp. Reports in January from cybersecurity company McAfee claimed that organisations associated with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were targeted by a hacking "campaign." Perhaps unsurprisingly, that wasn't the last cyberattack aimed at the Winter Olympics. Officials confirmed Sunday that the Winter Games were hit by a cybera...
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Prime minister Theresa May’s call for regulation of the internet to prevent terrorism planning has drawn support from some quarters but criticism from others Hours after the latest attack in London that killed seven and injured dozens more, the prime minister said the internet was a “safe space” for the “evil ideology of Islamist extremism” to breed....
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Given the sheer quantity of SMBs, their cybersecurity directly affects local resiliency in the face of cyber threats, SMBs must embrace their importance and scale up their cybersecurity appropriately.
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Published research showing that one third of small a...
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Cyber-criminals have rapidly adapted their phishing campaigns over the past year, abandoning social media lures in favor of a new focus on business users with communication notification templates, according to Proofpoint....
INFOSECURITY MAGAZINE
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A clear intent of Facebook is to take on Google by owning the mobile space. This is a difficult prospect since Google's Android operating system is pre-installed on 80% of the world's mobile handsets. To make it harder, Facebook is largely a closed area – it can only interact with Facebook users, while Google interacts with anyone and everyone that uses the internet. Even more worrying for Facebook are the clear indications that it is losing the 'buzz' factor with the young...
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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has renewed an agreement with the University of Hyogo (UH) to continue an information security dual-degree program in Kobe, Japan....
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