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In yet another Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack by hackers reported in Ireland, the country’s biggest telco said that its email system suffered a suspected attack. The attack, suspected to be a DDOS attack, which is a malicious attempt to make a server or a network resource unavailable to users is said to have put 400,000 of Eir users at risk. Customers with @eircom.net addresses reportedly began experiencing problems accessing their mail following the suspected...

Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were hit on Sunday by network outages and a company executive blamed the disruptions on a failed hacking attempt to hijack consumer router devices for a wider internet attack.Deutsche Telekom said on Monday as many as 900,000, or about 4.5 percent of its 20 million fixed-line customers, suffered internet outages starting on Sunday and continuing into Monday, when the number of affected users began to decline sharply. Deutsche...

A probe has been reportedly launched into Tesco Bank, in efforts to determine whether the bank failed to heed warnings of a security flaw in its payment systems, which may have allowed hackers to make away with millions of pounds. Authorities believe that the bank may have failed to act on a warning from Visa, issued out a year ago, according to reports. Investigators at the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) believe...

Japanese government ministries according to Kyodo News confirmed that a serious cyber attack happened in September aimed at the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Apparently, the leakage of sensitive information may have been breached by the alleged attack. However, it remains unclear – despite hints – if the cyber attack was implemented by a foreign nation-state agency, or by expert hackers outside state institutions. Yet, once news emerged about the alleged cyber attack from Kyodo news,...

San Francisco’s Muni transit system was reportedly hit by ransomware since Friday, leading to the message “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted” being displayed on the computer screens at stations, according to newspaper reports. The message asked that cryptom27 at yandex.com should be contacted for the key to unlock the data. Fare payment machines at stations also displayed that they were “out of service,”and San Francisco's Municipal Railway, widely known as Muni, was allowing free rides on its light-rail...

Hard-drive-scrambling ransomware menaced more than 2,000 systems at San Francisco's public transit agency on Friday and demanded 100 bitcoins to unlock data, The Register has learned. Ticket machines were shut down and passengers were allowed to ride the Muni light-rail system for free on Saturday – a busy post-Thanksgiving shopping day for the city – while IT workers scrambled to clean up the mess. A variant of the HDDCryptor malware infected 2,112 computers within the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency,...

Malware doesn't always have to attack your computer through browser- or OS-based exploits. Sometimes, it's the social networks themselves that can be the problem. Researchers at Check Point have discovered that a variant of known ransomware, Locky, is taking advantage of flaws in the way Facebook and LinkedIn (among others) handle images in its bid to infect your PC. The trick forces your browser to download a maliciously coded image file that hijacks your system the moment you open...

Security practitioners are required to maintain a safe and secure environment for an organisation’s clients and/or employees. Whether that’s by patrolling and monitoring premises, guarding staff, tracing missing people, dealing with witness statements, analysing crime scenes, or examining cyber threats, security employees are the first line of defence for most organisations. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IT Governance

Do you like to wipe your entire existence off the internet in a few clicks? Now there is a tool to do that task. There are millions of websites in internet which requires an account to access contents in them. Like we have to create an account in Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and so on to get full access to their services. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Techlog

Tesla cars can be tracked, located, unlocked and driven away by compromising the company’s smartphone app. Researchers at Norwegian app security firm Promon demonstrated how easy it appears to be to steal a Tesla. Benjamin Adolphi, mobile software developer at Promon, said he used “simple, known vulnerabilities” that have been around for a long time. He created a fake free Wi-Fi hotspot that featured an ad targeted at Tesla owners, offering them a free burger...