A cyberattack may have caused the power outage that occurred in Ukraine late on Saturday, according to the country’s national energy company Ukrenergo.
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Akamai Acquires Bot Detection Startup Cyberfend
Internet infrastructure giantAkamai Technologies announced on Monday that it has acquired bo
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Bayrob Malware Operators Indicted in U.S.
Three Romanian men have been indicted in the United States for their involvement in a longstanding online fraud operation that resulted in estimated losses of up to $35 million.
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FireEye Grows New Partnerships with Vodafone Deal
After seeing its stock price decline signigicantly over the past year, along with a major executive leadership change, FireEye has unveiled a series of new products and global partnerships that should help improve its position in the cybersecurity solutions market.
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Brute Force Attacks on WordPress Websites Soar
WordPress security firm Wordfence has warned that the number of brute force attacks aimed at WordPress websites has increased significantly in December compared to the previous period.
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Mirai Switches to Tor Domains to Improve Resilience
Mirai, the distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that leverages the power of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is improving resilience by switching to .Onion domains, after briefly flirting with its own Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA).
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Network Infrastructure, Visibility and Security in 2017
Given the security events of 2016, coupled with the rapid advancements and adoption of cloud computing, 2017 will be the year in which many finally accept that network infrastructure and security will have to be rethought from the ground up.
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Spear Phishing Attacks Target Industrial Firms: Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT
Kaspersky Lab on Friday shared details of a targeted attack campaign against industrial organizations that began in late summer and is still ongoing.
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Spear Phishing Attacks Target Industrial Firms
Kaspersky Lab on Friday shared details of a targeted attack campaign against industrial organizations that began in late summer and is still ongoing.
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Los Angeles County Notifies 756,000 of Data Breach
A 'mere' 10.8% phishing success rate has forced Los Angeles County to notify approximately 756,000 individuals that their personal information may have been compromised. The attack occurred on May 13, 2016 when 1,000 County employees received phishing emails. 108 employees were successfully phished.
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