The firm has grown at a phenomenal pace of 40% compounded annual growth since 2011 and is expected to quicken its pace. The head of Travelers Cos Inc stated the company will stick to its growth plans on the cyber insurance, which protects businesses against liabilities revolving around hacking and cyber attacks. We feel like…
Microsoft’s internal database contains description of vulnerabilities of its widely used products, including its Windows operating system. This treasure trove of critical information, guarded by just a password, was accessed by hackers in 2013. According to 5 former employees of Microsoft, a highly sophisticated group of hackers had managed to break into Microsoft’s network security…
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 hacker had managed to breach the defenses and had downloaded nearly 30GB of data related to military hardware, including smart bombs, Joint Strike Fighter, naval vessels, P-8 Poseidon surveillance plane and other military hardware, over the course of 5 months. On Thursday, Australia’s defense ministry disclosed that a hacker had managed to breach its…
As a result of the hack, confidential information of nearly 350 of its clients have been leaked. The Guardian has reported citing anonymous sources, Deloitte, a global accounting firm, had suffered a cyber attack in September. As a result of the cyber attack, a server which contained e-mails of nearly 350 of its clients, including…
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…
Ever wandere why the U.S. government banned the use of Kaspersky Anti-virus on government computers? How difficult is to remotely exploit vulnerabilities in voting machines and computer systems. Here’s a 5 minute read that sheds light on these topics. In an unlikely coalition, academics and hackers have joined forces with U.S. governors to strengthen and…
Although the SEC had “promptly” patched the vulnerability in its EDGAR system which stores millions of confidential data that companies are required to file to the SEC, the fact that hackers have managed to penetrate its systems, have stoked investor concerns. In a startling development, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), disclosed that hackers…
Personal details of less than 400,000 U.K residents may also have been accessed by hackers, said Equifax. In another starling disclosure Equifax Inc stated, the personal details of nearly 100,000 Canadians were exposed in the massive hacking incident that took the company by storm earlier this month. As per Equifax, hackers were able to access…
As per U.S. Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, it would not be an “exaggeration to suggest that a breach such as this represents a real threat to the economic security of Americans.” In what is reported to be one of the largest breaches of data in the United…
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