Tagged: Cyber Attack & News
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Cyber-criminals catch on to online hotel booking craze News
14.05.2012 Cyber-criminals appear to be capitalising onto the trend of people booking their holidays online. Hotline.ie has issued an appeal for people to be aware of fake booking... -
The real cost of Sony’s network outage (infographic) News
18.04.2012 It has been a year since one of the largest online data breaches to date - the cyber attacks on Sony that resulted in the theft of personal information belonging to more than... -
Anonymous hackers take down UK government sites News
10.04.2012 Hackers associated with Anonymous apparently caused three UK government websites to crash over the weekend, in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to protest the... -
European Cybercrime Centre to crack down on cyber threats News
05.04.2012 The European Commission is proposing to set up a European Cybercrime Centre in the Hague to focus on online fraud, e-crime and identity theft.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Search Engines, Science, Online Business, Mobile, Internet, Government, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Computers, CIO -
LulzSec hackers reborn with military dating website attack? News
28.03.2012 Hacker group LulzSec has apparently undergone a type of resurrection. A new flurry of hackers, calling themselves LulzSec reborn, are claiming to have exposed more than 170,000... -
Anti-ACTA hackers attack Polish websites News
23.01.2012 Anonymous hackers today attacked Polish government websites, including the website of the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk. Poland is to be one of the first countries in... -
Intelligence gathering may be key against cyber attacks News
18.01.2012 A new doctrine for defending firms against cyber attacks that could cripple IT systems is being urged by EMC: firms need to share intelligence about recent attacks in order to... -
Google to educate consumers about cyber crime News
18.01.2012 To combat the growing problem of cyber crime, Google has decided to take matters into its own hands. Yesterday in the US, it started Good to Know, a consumer education campaign...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Global CIO, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, ComputersTags: Hacking, Google, Cyber Attack, Cyber Crime, Cookies, IP, Cyber Criminals, Internet Security, Online, -
Hackers knock out Tel Aviv stock exchange website News
16.01.2012 The website of Israel’s Tel Aviv Stock Exchange as well as that of its leading airliner El Al Airlines and three banks were out of action today after hackers launched a major... -
Securing the cloud – Ireland in vanguard of war on cyber crime News
12.01.2012 Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you cannot help but realise the world is under attack from increasingly sophisticated gangs of cyber attackers. -
Hackers take down Egyptian government websites News
20.12.2011 Hackers took down a dozen Egyptian government websites in what appears to be an orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. -
Final Fantasy servers hacked, 1.8m accounts suspended News
16.12.2011 Hackers have hit Square Enix, the games developer behind popular online games Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and it is believed 1.8m users’ accounts may have been affected. -
Security is major inhibitor preventing cloud adoption by firms News
15.12.2011 For firms to get serious about cloud computing, they need to get over their fears of their IT’s security being compromised.Tags: Sony, Hackers, Cyber Attack, Microsoft, IT, Cloud Computing, Cloud, Security Breaches, Dell Ireland, Dermot O'Connell, Azure -
Daily targeted attacks increase since January - report News
06.12.2011 The number of daily targeted network security attacks has increased four-fold compared to January this year, with an average of 94 targeted attacks blocked each day during... -
UK to dispatch ‘Cyber Bobbies’ to police the web News
25.11.2011 ‘Cyber Specials’ look set to be the new face of UK policing as the UK government today revealed its strategy to counter the threat of cyber crime to its stg£100bn a year online...Categories: CIO, Digital Media, Government, Internet, Security, Social Media, Software & Web Development -
Hackers attack US water system – new age of cyber terror begins News
21.11.2011 An investigation is under way into reports that hackers managed to remotely shut down a water system in Illinois. At the dawn of the age of cyber terrorism against nations, the...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Global CIO, Data Management, CIO -
Get inside the mind of a cyber criminal News
08.11.2011 Based on their book The Psychology of Cyber Crime, two lecturers from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) will hold a seminar tomorrow to look at how... -
Rise of cloud computing has complicated the security landscape News
04.11.2011 Nearly half of 10,000 business leaders surveyed globally believe that the onset of cloud technologies have improved security. However, nearly a quarter believe it has increased... -
Facebook disputes researchers’ claims it was hit by socialbots News
02.11.2011 Social networking giant Facebook has hit out at claims by university researchers that its systems have been compromised by an army of socialbots that infiltrated the social... -
Security alert: meet ‘Duqu’ the son of Stuxnet News
19.10.2011 Dubbed ‘the son of Stuxnet’ a new attack called Duqu with similar characteristics is on the rampage. Duqu’s purpose is to gather intelligence from industrial control systems...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Security, Risk Management, Energy, Computers