Page 4 - Cyberattacks
India will be short of 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs by year-end
According to a study by job portal Indeed, cybersecurity jobs saw a jump of 6 per cent in May 2020, just when Covid-19 started impacting IT
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India plans more power islands to counter cyber, terrorist threats
The plan follows a major power outage in India's financial hub Mumbai last year that brought the city to a halt and prompted speculation about a cyber attack
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Work from home fuelling cyber attacks, says global financial watchdog
Financial firms may need to bolster their defences in the face of rocketing cyber attacks after employees began working from home, the Financial Stability Board said on Tuesday
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Hackers disrupt Iran's rail service with fake delay, cancellation messages
Iran's railroad system came under cyberattack on Friday with hackers posting fake messages about train delays or cancellations on display boards at stations across the country
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Chinese foreign ministry says biggest cybersecurity threat posed by US
Amid strained ties between Washington and Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Monday said that the United States is 'the top threat to global cybersecurity.'
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Russia strongly rejects involvement in cyberattacks on US claimed by NSA
The Russian Embassy has strongly rejected the alleged involvement of the Russian authorities in a series of cyberattacks on government and private facilities in the United States and other countries
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India ranks among top 10 in ITU's Global Cybersecurity Index 2020
India has made it to the top 10 in Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2020 by ITU, moving up 37 places to rank as the tenth best country in the world on key cybersafety parameters
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Malware hits Western Digital's My Book Live devices; wipes all data: Report
After malware was found to have wiped all data from some users' devices, Western Digital is advising customers who use its My Book Live and My Book Live Duo products to disconnect them from Internet
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Microsoft says new breach found in probe of suspected SolarWinds hackers
Microsoft said an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from that to launch hacking attempts against customers
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Critical entities targeted in suspected state-backed Chinese cyber spying
A cyberespionage campaign with suspected state-backed hackers exploiting a device meant to boost internet security to penetrate the computers of critical US entities
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Meat giant JBS pays $11 million in ransom to resolve cyberattack
The FBI has attributed the attack to REvil, a Russian-speaking gang that has made some of the largest ransomware demands on record in recent month
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Cyberattack on US meat producer shows world's food supply vulnerable
Supply will become more susceptible in the years ahead as public health threats and potential cyberattacks loom large.
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'Domino effect': Why the world's biggest websites suddenly went offline
Failure at Fastly, which helps websites load their pages faster, sent vast swaths of the web offline on Tuesday.
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World's biggest meat supplier is latest prey to cybersecurity attack
The attack sidelined two shifts and halted processing at one of Canada's largest meatpacking plants, while in Australia the company canceled all beef and lamb kills across the nation
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US pipeline operators ordered to increase cyber defenses after hack
This comes after a ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several states this month.
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Cyberattacks could trigger more rating actions on banks, says S&P
The banking sector is becoming more exposed to cybercrime after the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digitalization and remote working
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From Air India to Facebook, here're top 10 cyberattacks in India
From April 2020, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020
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US gasoline prices at 7-yr high in slow recovery from cyberattack
Last week's closure of Colonial Pipeline's 5,500-mile (8,900-km) system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record
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Ireland's health department under ransomware attack similar to that on HSE
Ireland's Department of Health has been under a ransomware attack similar to that recently launched on the country's Health Service Executive (HSE), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said
US capital running out of gas, even as Colonial Pipeline recovers
Widespread panic buying continued two days after the pipeline network restarted, leaving filling stations across the US Southeast out of gas
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