The ransomware took The Weather Channel's live transmission offline for almost an hour.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});(adsbygoogle =...
The clock ticking its way to midnight. On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people hope only the best things will happen in 2019. There were though plenty of things to complain about last year. One of the biggest issues seemed to be the massive amount of...
The ransomware attack disrupted the screens for two days. In a nasty ransomware attack, flight information screens at the United Kingdom's Bristol airport were taken over and hijacked by malicious hackers on September 15th Friday...
Science fiction movies often depict various situations related to cybercriminals’ activity. These can include predicaments where threat actors disrupt the transportation system of a large city or cause power outages in entire regions. In fact,...
The official website of Banco de España (Bank of Spain), which is the central bank of the country, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday. The attack potentially disrupted the website’s operations and it became...
France based video game publisher Ubisoft suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service). As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers including Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and Far Cry 5 were facing connectivity...
Security incidents where hackers distribute malicious code (malware) via spam, phishing, exploits and compromised websites are hitting the headlines all the time. However, not all cybercriminals are super proficient in programming or have enough...
It is quite common to have crashed hard drives, which is mainly caused by thermal stress due to excessive, repeated heating and cooling or the physical shock that results from being dropped or knocked. This is especially common in laptops....
John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conducting sustained DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) against his ex-employer Washburn Computer Group, a point-of-sale system repair...
Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal of trouble. The largest train operating company in Danmark "Danske Statsbaner" (DSB or Danish State Railways) suffered a massive DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service) on...
