Cyberattack News

The year 2014 has been characterized as problematic due to a fairly rising number of cyber-attacks, data breaches and incidents around security vulnerabilities.

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Social networking website Meetup.com is fighting a sustained battle against cyber-criminals who are demanding $300 to call off an attack that has kept the site offline for much of the past four days.

Washington - Popular daily deals website LivingSocial announced a massive cyberattack on its database. It is estimated 50 million customers across the globe are affected.

Barcelona - According to the media the 35-year-old Dutchman that was arrested in Barcelona as a suspect in cyber-attacks against Spamhaus is CyberBunker spokesman, Sven Olaf Kamphuis.

The biggest cyber-attack in history is taking place now. A London and Geneva-based non-profit Internet watchdog group Spamhaus has been hit by a massive cyber-attack whose ripples are spreading on the Web worldwide.

Tallin - A study commissioned by NATO has found that the 2009 US-Israeli cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program was "an act of force" that was likely a violation of international law.

Sydney - South Korea was hit by a cyber-attack today which knocked out three broadcasters and two banks. That may not be the whole story, though. There’s a risk this may have been a dry run for North Korea’s bizarre threats to come into force.

NBC.com is back online after getting hacked during the week. The hack involved malware that was in the form of a trojan.

Chinese hackers attacked one of the biggest and most respected U.S. newspapers, The New York Times, on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members.

David Seaman, journalist and host of The DL Show, talks in depth about the latest threat to internet freedom and privacy, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act, or CISPA.

After flexing their "hacktivist" muscles on multiple occasions, the hacker collective Anonymous has drawn the attention of the National Security Agency.

Data theft is becoming more common, and Zappos is the latest to report the breaching of accounts, twenty four million accounts.

New York - Following the March RSA security breach that threatened its SecurID tags, security analyst Brian Krebs published a list of 760 organizations on his blog Monday that were affected by the incident.

Canada’s largest Asian grocery store chain, T&T Supermarket, suffered a cyberattack and they were forced to shut down their website.