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16 Mar

#nationalcybersecuritymonth | Coronavirus live updates: Major cities shut down, Trump asks Americans to avoid groups over 10 people

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Major cities are shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms and schools to try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed at least 75 people in the United States....
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5 Mar

#nationalcybersecuritymonth | Ryuk ransomware attack forced industrial conglomerate EMCOR to shut down IT systems

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Ryuk ransomware attack forces EMCOR to shut down some IT systems EMCOR, a US-based Fortune 500 industrial conglomerate, was forced to shut down some of its IT systems last month following...
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25 Feb

#hacking | Governments play a dangerous game when they start to shut down the internet, says Professor Dame Wendy Hall

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Professor Dame Wendy Hall of the Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, is amongst the foremost voices in the world of the internet and computer science. During a recent visit to...
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12 Feb

#hacking | Hackers could shut down satellites – or turn them into weapons

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Last month, SpaceX became the operator of the world’s largest active satellite constellation. As of the end of January, the company had 242 satellites orbiting the planet with plans to launch...
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9 Dec

#school | #ransomware | Town Hit by Ransomware; System Shut Down to Limit Damage – East Greenwich News

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans By Elizabeth F. McNamara Town Manager Andrew Nota said Saturday the town had been hit with computer ransomware and had shut down the system townwide to evaluate the damage and rebuild....
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3 Dec

#infosec | Global Cops Shut 31,000 Domains in IP Crackdown

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Global police have shut down nearly 31,000 domains as part of a crackdown on IP infringement. Law enforcers from 18 EU member states including the UK joined forces with Europol, the...
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26 Oct

#city | #ransomware | Johannesburg’s network shut down after second attack in 3 months

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Enlarge / Johannesburg City Hall Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa and the 26th largest city worldwide, has shut down its website, billing and electronic services after being hit by...
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17 Oct

Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested

The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins. With an...
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29 Jan

Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or...
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10 Dec

Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users

Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date, i.e., in April 2019 instead of August 2019. Google said...
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