A hacker that goes by the name The Janitor has reportedly created several versions of BrickerBot, a program that seeks out and bricks insecure Internet of Thing (IoT) devices. According to a report in TechCrunch, researcher Pascal Geenens has been following the so-called worm for...
Lloyds Banking Group was reportedly the victim of a cyberattack two weeks ago that hurt online services. According to a report by American Banker, citing a person with knowledge of the matter, the bank was hit by a denial-of-service attack, which tries to bring down a website...
A new attack is emerging in which the hackers can prevent access to 911, and it may just be because of vulnerabilities in the system. That’s according to Business Insider, which laid out how the new attack works. Similar to how a denial-of-service attack floods a...
This wasn’t the Black Friday retailers expected. We’re not talking about the venerable day after Thanksgiving — nothing that sunny. We’re talking a bit dark here — as in the internet going dark. Cyberattacks that targeted server farms last week operated by Dyn Inc. took down...
May 02, 2019
The Department of Energy (DOE) has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) perpetrated against an energy company caused “interruptions of electrical system operations,” according to a report. The “cyber event” occurred on March 5 and lasted almost 10 hours. The DOE said the attack pushed the energy company’s systems offline with an overload of […]
April 27, 2017
A hacker that goes by the name The Janitor has reportedly created several versions of BrickerBot, a program that seeks out and bricks insecure Internet of Thing (IoT) devices. According...
January 24, 2017
Lloyds Banking Group was reportedly the victim of a cyberattack two weeks ago that hurt online services. According to a report by American Banker, citing a person with knowledge of the...
January 09, 2017
A new attack is emerging in which the hackers can prevent access to 911, and it may just be because of vulnerabilities in the system. That’s according to Business Insider, which...
