News Articles On Cyber Topics
We have included a few links below to relevant cyber crimes and topics
Local Government Cyber Exposure
98 million cyber attacks between 2013 and 2017...Bigbrotherwatch
A list of the worst breaches of last year
Wired - The Worst Cybersecurity Breaches of 2018
Aircraft Hacking
Cyberattacks on Connected Aircraft Are Happening Right NowAvionics International
Russian Hackers attack US aviation last year.
Bloomberg - Russian Hackers Penetrate US Aviation
A Snapshot list
of high profile attacks, right up to last month !
Thanks to the Center for Strategic and International Studies for this, See CSIS
- February 2019. State-sponsored hackers were caught in the early stages of gaining access to computer systems at the Australian Federal Parliament
- February 2019. European aerospace company Airbus reveals it was targeted by Chinese hackers who stole the personal and IT identification information of some of its European employees
- February 2019. Norwegian software firm Visma revealed that it had been targeted by hackers from the Chinese Ministry of State Security who were attempting to steal trade secrets from the firm's clients
- January 2019. Hackers associated with the Russian intelligence services were found to have targeted the Center for Strategic and International Studies
- January 2019. The U.S. Department of Justice announced an operation to disrupt a North Korean botnet that had been used to target companies in the media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors.
- January 2019. Security researchers reveal that Iranian hackers have been targeting the telecom and travel industries since at least 2014 in an attempt to surveil and collect the personal information of individuals in the Middle East, U.S., Europe, and Australia
- December 2018. Chinese hackers breached the systems of an American hotel chain, stealing the personal information of over 500 million customers
- The list is too long to continue...