Highlights Hackers behind Wanna Cry have made only $60,500 so far. Malware first struck on Friday. Meanwhile, a possible North Korea link to the cyber attack has emerged. Since Friday, more than three lakh computers in over 150 countries, including India, have been in the grips of Wanna Cry (or WannaCry), a ransomware that encrypts […]

More than half of Irish businesses expect a cyber attack on their operations by the end of 2017, according to the recently published Dublin Information Sec 2017 report. 36% of respondents said that they have already experienced one this year, reports Irish Independent. “These survey results are interesting but unsurprising – more and more business […]

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton, who was recently interrogated in a Senate hearing over a cyberattack of the government agency’s EDGAR database for corporate filings, said he thinks his predecessor, Mary Jo White, had no knowledge of the data breach that occurred last year. According to news from Reuters, citing comments Clayton […]

In a world where attacks on computers are nearly de rigueur at this point, it isn’t much of a surprise that U.S. banks have begun quietly doomsday-prepping for a successful apocalyptic attack on their computers by hackers. The goal is to head off a run on the bank by panicked citizens. Called Sheltered Harbor, the […]