Microsoft says 84% of these attacks were targeted at enterprise customers, and 16% at personal users. read more

By analysing data from 7,000 anonymously aggregated IP cameras, Trend Micro found that the IP-based surveillance industry is fighting massive cyber attacks. read more

Similar to the way that banks can check their stability with a stress-test, Moody’s and Team8 are developing a framework to measure companies’ defences and preparedness for such attacks in comparison to other businesses and over time. read more

US President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory military strike against Iran after the drone shootdown but then called it off, saying the response wouldn’t be “proportionate” and instead pledged new sanctions on the country. read more

The complainant in the case is 80-year-old Firoz Doctor, a partner in the company, which has been importing firefighting systems from a Germany-based firm for the past nine years. read more

The tool that has paralysed the city is a National Security Agency creation called “EternalBlue”, which has been used in other high-profile cyber attacks including “Wannacry” in May 2017, The Verge reported on Saturday. read more

According to the Oshiwara police, the complainant company landed a big project from a private company to make video advertisements. They then contacted a Romanian company to outsource some of the work. read more

Having begun crowdfunding on the portal www.onedemocracy.in on March 26 as part of an innovative idea, the website could barely function for two days before it was rendered unserviceable, allegedly due to a cyber attack. read more

Facebook hasn’t disclosed what caused the outage yet. The company, however, did clarify that the service interruption wasn’t due to targeted cyber attack. read more

The F-Secure survey found that 20% of respondents detected a single attack during the last 12-month period and 31% detected 2-5 attacks. read more

An HIV-positive American who had been deported from Singapore after serving a jail term has leaked online the personal data of 14,200 Singaporeans and foreigners diagnosed in the city-state with the virus. read more

Impulse online shopping, downloading music and compulsive email use are all signs of a certain personality trait that make you a target for cybercrime. read more

Electronics and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issues alerts and advisories regarding latest cyber threats and countermeasures on a regular basis and cyber security exercises are conducted regularly... read more

Paras Jha, 22, of New Jersey had previously pleaded guilty before US District Judge Michael Shipp to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He also took part in creating click fraud botnets, infecting hundreds of thousands of devices with malicious... read more

A BJP functionary attached to the party’s IT cell said the web site in question was an old one. He added that the new web site has anti-hacking security measures in place. read more