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Solar Panels at Risk of Cyber Attacks, warn Experts

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According to experts from Digital Watchdog RDI, solar panels are now vulnerable to cyber attacks, with hackers targeting the vulnerabilities in the inverters that store energy for powering smartphones, laptops, and small electrical gadgets. Between 2015 and 2021, approximately 16.3

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Cybersecurity Report: July 15, 2015

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The group described the main purpose of the attack as below, “When the government stops listening to the people, it’s time to wake them up. There will be no #DigitalIndia until and unless government of India stops their surveillance projects & make their systems secure.”. Cyber Attack on Edinburgh City Council.

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Trump secretly ordered cyber attacks against Iran missile systems

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The United States launched a series of cyber attacks on Iran after the Iranian military has downed an American surveillance drone. The military response to Iran, after the Iranian army has downed an American surveillance drone, started from the cyberspace. surveillance drone, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

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LOT, the Polish national airline, announced on Sunday that it cancelled 10 flights due to the cyber attack towards its ground computer systems at Warsaw’s Okecie airport. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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Thai Officials confirmed the hack of prison surveillance cameras and the video broadcast

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Authorities in Thailand are investigating a cyber attack that resulted in the broadcast of surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south. The incident raises the question of the security of IoT devices, smart devices are under incessant attacks of hackers and botnet. ” reported the AP agency.

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Russia-linked BlackEnergy backed new cyber attacks on Ukraine’s state bodies

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BlackEnergy made the headlines as the responsible for the massive power outage that occurred in Ukraine in December 2015. According to the SBU, BlackEnergy hackers used new samples of malware in a recent series of attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cybersecurity Report: August 11, 2015

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Last Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claimed that the controversial new surveillance bill Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) could sweep away important privacy protections. However, this may raise serious privacy issues within private sectors.