“Cellphone, Internet, and telephone services across half of Arizona went dark on Wednesday after vandals sliced a sensitive fiber optic cable, according to those familiar with the situation. The incident is raising concerns about the safety of U.S. infrastructure. The outage shut down critical...
“Some of China’s largest Internet companies deleted more than 60,000 online accounts because their names did not conform to regulations due to take effect on Sunday, the top Internet regulator said.” Source: China censorship sweep deletes more than 60,000 Internet accounts – ...
“Cybercriminals have been hijacking the Internet connections of users in Brazil by modifying Domain Name System (DNS) settings in their routers, researchers at Proofpoint reported on Thursday. These types of operations, known as pharming attacks, are designed to lure victims to fake websites, ...
“China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security ‘backdoors’, a potential escalation of what some firms view as the increasingly onerous terms of doing business in the world’s second l...
“The top U.S. intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year. Identifying Iran as the perpetrator came more than a year after the Feb. 10, 2014, attack against the world’s largest gambling company, which crip...
“‘Rather than a ‘cyber-Armageddon’ scenario that debilitates the entire U.S. infrastructure, we envision something different,’ James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said in a report on global threats. ‘We foresee an ongoing series of low-to-moderate level cyber-attack...
” China has dropped some of the world’s leading technology brands from its approved state purchase lists, while approving thousands more locally made products, in what some say is a response to revelations of widespread Western cybersurveillance. Others put the shift down to a protection...
“It seems like the world has declared war against the Cyber Criminals. In a recent update, we reported that FBI is offering $3 Million in Reward for the arrest of GameOver Zeus botnet mastermind, and meanwhile British cyber-police has taken down widely-spread RAMNIT botnet. The National Crime ...
“The Urban Institute, a prominent Washington D.C. based think tank which provides research articles for nonprofits on management and governance, disclosed that the organization’s National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) network has been the subject of a major breach event that comp...
“A group claiming to be former agents of Israel’s Mossad threatened to unleash a devastating cyber attack on South Africa unless its government cracked down on the growing campaign to boycott Israel, according to intelligence documents leaked to Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. Acc...