Towards the end of 2016, Anonymous formed a campaign targeting Thai government. The Thai government thought it’d be a good idea to offer up a bill regarding the internet (of all things). In this bill, they proposed that the entire country’s internet traffic be routed through one single gateway. Read more

Hackers from Morocco succeeded to break defenses of different school area networks. The main aim of the group was to attempt and obtain a way into the sensitive government systems from there. The United Data Technologies (UDT) which is a company that studies such breaches said that the hackers succeeded to get into these networks

If you spend a lot of time scavenging the internet for secrets, you are probably no stranger to the online database WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has dabbled in a variety of leaks, from the infamous Hillary Clinton emails to the Iraq Apache helicopter attack footage. Read more

Powerful programs run daily by users of Linux and other flavors of Unix are riddled with holes that can be exploited by logged-in miscreants to gain root privileges, researchers at Qualys have warned. Essentially, it’s possible to pull off a “Stack Clash” attack in various tools and applications to hijack the whole system, a situation

It was on December 17 last year that Ukrenergo, the power utility company in Ukraine, was subject to a power shutdown that left hundreds of thousands of people in the country’s capital without electricity for more than an hour. Read more

In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, IT major Wipro has stated that while there is an increase in the number of connected devices and transition to the cloud, there are also rising incidents of cyber security breaches which could pose a serious risk to business affecting financial prospects of companies. Such attacks

The European Parliament has introduced amended regulation that would not only require end-to-end encryption when convenient but forbid backdoors that offer secured access to law enforcement. EU citizens need to know that the “confidentiality and safety” of their data is “guaranteed,” according to the design, and backdoors risk “weakening” that privacy. Read more  

All European Citizens should have the right to use end-to-end encryption in all forms of digital communications, in order to ensure online privacy and protection against unauthorised government surveillance, according to draft European Union legislation. Read more

President Donald Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order supports increased security of critical infrastructure, with a renewed focus on a risk-based approach to mitigating security threats. It provides the opportunity to reexamine what a risk-based approach to cyber security means and how current security technologies are being applied across government and private sectors. Read more

Google is ramping up its efforts in fighting extremist content online, detailing in a Sunday blog post four new efforts the company will be making to eliminate online terrorism. Online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google have been used by extremists to share videos of executions, promote their ideology, and recruit new members. In the