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Pro-Iran Group ALtahrea Hits Port of London Website by DDoS Attack
A seemingly ‘politically motivated’ DDoS attack knocked down the Port of London authority’s website. The Port of London…
Misconfigured ElasticSearch Servers Exposed 579 GB of Users’ Website Activity
In total, two misconfigured ElasticSearch servers belonging to an unknown organization exposed 359,019,902 (359 million) records that were…
Someone hacked this advertising screen to mine Bitcoin
The sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin encouraged the world to mine more cryptocurrencies but some do…
USB Stick with Heathrow Security and Queen’ Data Found on London Street
According to reports from the Sunday Mirror, a USB device was found lying on the street in West…
Electronics retail giant CeX hacked; data of 2 million customers stolen
Another day another breach. CeX Ltd., the United Kingdom based electronic retail giant, has suffered a data breach in…
Autistic Man Hacked Sports Direct Website To Get Employment
The retail giant Sports Direct’s website went down for 30m minutes which cost them the loss of sales…
Creators of dark web chat room arrested for facilitating child abuse
Brett McBain, 51 and David Buckley, 54 were arrested for creating a dark web chat room called £1TheOtherPlace…
IT outage chaos: All British Airways Flights Canceled
About two weeks ago the critical cyber infrastructure at the hospitals in the United Kingdom came under WannaCry…
UK’s Financial Hub London Under Massive Ransomware Attacks
London’s official tourism slogan is “See the world. Visit London” and looks like cyber criminals are already paying…