Cyber attackers crippled the Dutch government’s main websites for most of Tuesday and back-up plans proved ineffective, exposing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure at a time of heightened concern about online security.
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Hackers calling themselves “CyberCaliphate” threatened U.S. President Barack Obamaand his family when they took control of Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account on Tuesday with the words “Je suIS IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the deadly attack at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
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Security experts are warning healthcare and insurance companies that 2015 will be the “Year of the Healthcare Hack,” as cybercriminals are increasingly attracted to troves of personal information held by U.S. insurers and hospitals that command high prices on the underground market.
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India has not been able to identify the criminals behind cyber attacks against government establishments that were used to transmit classified information to overseas servers. “It may be noted that due to complexities of the cyber domain, it has been difficult to identify the exact beneficiaries of these attacks,” Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth wrote to…
Calling the destructive cyber-attack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyber threats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism.
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Facebook, Yahoo and other technology firms announced the creation of a “ThreatExchange” to share information to help thwart cyberattacks. “ThreatExchange is built on the existing Facebook platform infrastructure… So that partner companies can query the available threat information and also publish to all or a subset of participating organizations,” the social network said in a…
In the wake of the Sony Pictures Entertainment cyber hacks that took place last year, the US government is forming a new agency to monitor cyber security threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of risks.
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According to Twitter’s latest transparency report, India government authorities requested for removal of only 15 posts from Twitter for the period of July to December last year. Google, on the other hand, received 2,794 data requests from the government agencies from January to June 2014, a number that has increased every reporting period since the…
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court today observed that malicious and defamatory statements in the name of freedom of expression could not be justified. The court was remitting a case challenging the order of a sessions court, which directed two persons in the case to pay a fine of Rs.9,000 each instead of…
Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today sought private participation in the ambitious Smart City project as it requires massive resources. Building Smart City is a challenge for the states, urban local bodies and corporates but it is also a great opportunity as well, he said at the conference on Smart City organised by the…