UK accused Russia's military intelligence agency GRU of carrying out 4 high-profile cyber attacks
1 year agoDHS has issued technical alerts to "global IT service providers" about a nation-state hacking campaign. Victims span IT, energy, healthcare, communications, and manufacturing sectors. Some victims are in the U.S., per DHS.
DHS aware of ongoing APT attacks on cloud service providers. Attacks most likely linked to activity of APT10, a Chinese cyber-espionage group, also known as Red Apollo, Stone Panda, POTASSIUM, or MenuPass.
Instagram restores service after overnight outage
1 year agoPer Eurocontrol, the Shannon (EISN) FIR has suffered a 'complete radar failure' and has been 0 rated (no flights) until at least 2300UTC.
Much of Irish airspace closed this evening after 'radar failure' in Shannon
1 year agoLive picture @flightradar24 shows Ireland's airspace clear apart from Dublin airport
Radar failure in west of Ireland resulting in a "zero flow rate" in Irish aerospace at present.
1 year agoUkrainian MFA launches campaign #CorrectUA. Should be Kyiv instead of Kiev transliterated from Russian language #KyivNotKiev
President Erdogan: "At midnight operations tried to undermine our economy. With Allah's permission, we are proceeding to overcome this attack. "
"According to reports, the Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) has issued an advisory in relation to a hacking incident at Facebook
Huge security flaw in @Conservatives conference app exposes the personal details of cabinet members, MPs, journalists and local councillors, as well as making their mobile phone numbers publicly available in the app's searchable database.
Facebook's data breach just got substantially worse than initially reported. In a follow up call this afternoon, the platform revealed that if your account was impacted, a hacker could have accessed any account you log into using Facebook
Russia foreign minister denounces "baseless accusations" of interference in UN speech.
Guy Rosen, FB VP of Product Management confirms FB is working with the FBI on this
1 year agoFacebook shares drop to session low after company says it has uncovered a security issue affecting nearly 50,000,000 accounts.
Facebook says it has discovered a "security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts
1 year agoDow, S&P 500, Nasdaq briefly turn negative as Facebook tumbles to session low after discovering security issue affecting 50M accounts
1 year agoPort of San Diego suffers cyber-attack, second port in a week after Barcelona. Cyber-attacks have been reported at three ports in the last two months.
Russia's GRU has developed a new malware rewriting the code flashed into a computer's UEFI chip that's virtually impossible to eradicate, capable of surviving a complete wipe of a target computer's hard drive.
NBI's Cybercrime Center will investigate yesterday's DoS attack and establish whether this latest incident has any links to similar DDoS attacks committed in the past few months.
1 year agoFinnish social insurance institution KELA again report problems with their services today, begun 10:42 local time. So far no other reports.
Emir of Qatar: Cyber security and piracy must be organized
1 year agoDDoS attack hits suomi.fi , Finnish identification services (social insurance institution, tax office etc e-Services depend on this)
Venezuelans say they are unable to access key Google services
The UK will be contributing £250M towards recruiting a cyber-force to combat the threat from Daesh, following successful UK cyber-attacks against the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
"America invented the Internet. It has brought prosperity and productivity to American lives and those across the world" per Nat'l Security Adviser @AmbJohnBolton "We must do more to ensure it is secure and remains an engine of American growth"
[email protected] signs new National Cyber Strategy, signalling the UnitedStates is prepared to go on the offensive in cyberspace and make sure adversaries know there is a price to pay for hacks, network intrusions and other types of attacks
In the briefing @AmbJohnBolton acknowledges his own information was stolen by China in the hack of @USOPM records.
Google confirms that it has alerted several Senators and Senate staff that their personal Gmail accounts have been targeted by state-backed hackers.
