In 2006, Google had entered China only to leave in 2010 over an escalating dispute with regulators that was capped by what security researchers identified as state-sponsored cyberattacks against Google and other large U.S. firms. According to a transcript of a meeting between Google’s CEO and its employees, the search engine giant is not close…
The hack occurred over the weekend. Coinrail has temporarily suspended trading in the virtual currency exchange. On Monday, with Coinrail, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, disclosing that it was hacked during the weekend, there followed an extended sell-off of bitcoin which saw it touch its 2-month low. In recent given the number of hacks involved…
The affected cards include Tesla, GeForce, Quadro, Grid and NVS. On Wednesday, Nvidia Corp confirmed that some of its chipsets have been affected by the Spectre vulnerability and that potentially hackers can exploit the bug by corrupting memory, bypass the operating system and steal the passwords of devices. Nvidia is in the process of providing…
A 2015 hack at Carphone Warehouse had compromised the personal information of more than 3 million people. On Wednesday, Britain’s information regulator disclosed that it has imposed a fine of $539,400 (400,000 pounds) on Carphone Warehouse following the 2015 cyber attack which exposed the private data of more than 3 million of its customers. As…
While earlier the hack was attributed to Russian hackers, The Time has reported citing intelligence assessments that the Iranians were behind the attack. On Saturday, The Times newspaper reported citing intelligence assessment of the incident that Iran had carried out a cyber attack on British lawmakers earlier this year. The news comes at a time…
The Equifax hack has affected 693,665 consumers in UK , 145.5 million in the U.S. and 8,000 in Canada. In yet another startling revelation, Equifax Inc said, 15.2 million records of its clients in Britain were compromised in the cyber attack that it suffered last month; this includes sensitive information affecting nearly 700,000 consumers. The…
It is surprising how many world class businesses still use Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, one that is totally outdated, in their core production facilities. The major cyberattack that left a wreck in its wake, including halting the operations of Cadbury’s chocolate plans in Australia, crippling the computers of port operator Maersk, is believed to…
Known as Bell, to its customers, the company stated the hack isn’t linked to the WannaCry attack. Financial information, including login credentials, weren’t accessed by the hackers. Hackers have managed to breach and access the customer information of 1.9 million customers, including names, e-mail addresses and active phone numbers, of Canada’s largest telecom company BCE…
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