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Over 4 million people hack neighbors Wi-Fi in the UK

CyberSecurity Insiders

In a survey conducted by broadband service provider Konnect, over 4 million people were found hacking neighbors’ Wi-Fi, if there was a down or to avoid paying a fat subscription fee. Technically, using an internet connection of a neighbor without permission is called ‘Piggybacking’ and is usually done to avoid subscription fees.

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OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports

Security Affairs

According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. According to IBM X-Force, attacks targeting operational technology (OT) infrastructure increased by over 2000 p ercent in 2019 compared to 2018, and most of them involved the Echobot malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. It was unleashed on the internet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and began infecting computers at various universities. The ILOVEYOU Worm (2000). The Creeper Virus (1971).

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The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware

Malwarebytes

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. 2000 Sydney. remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. Not so much.

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Why 83 Percent of Large Companies Are Vulnerable to This Basic Domain Hack

Adam Levin

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. A whopping 97 percent failed to use DNSSEC , a domain security protocol designed to address core vulnerabilities in the foundations of the internet itself.

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A new botnet named M?ris is behind massive DDoS attack that hit Yandex

Security Affairs

The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as M?ris. This kind of disguise might be one of the reasons devices got hacked unnoticed by their owners. SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet). ris botnet. million RPS. ” continues the post.

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Russia-linked APT Sandworm was inside Ukraine telecoms giant Kyivstar for months

Security Affairs

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). All mobile communications and internet access were temporarily interrupted.

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