Websites for the Tokyo and Osaka metro were purportedly attacked by a pro-Russian hacker gang.

In what looks to be a second day of cyberattacks against Japan, the websites of the Tokyo Metro Co. and the Osaka Metro Co. became unreachable on Wednesday evening. A hacker collective supporting Russia claimed credit on social media.

The assaults, which might have been carried out by K...

The FBI prevented a cyberattack against Boston Children's Hospital

The FBI's cyber unit was able to halt the 2021 attempt, which he blamed on Iran-sponsored hackers before it could damage the hospital's IT network, said FBI Director Christopher Wray.

According to Wray, who was speaking at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security, the close call ...

Justice Department in US launches National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to protect from cyber-attacks

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• Lisa Monaco launched the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
•  This team will target cyber-attacks

Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General of United States, during her speech on Wednesday, unveiled two new Justice De...

Testing of Crypto wallets by Robinhood to start from October

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• Robinhood announced that will start testing crypto wallets in October
•  These wallets will allow people to store and trade digital tokens

Robinhood announced that in October they will start testing crypto wallets. Thes...

US GAS PIPELINE COMPANY SAYS IT WAS FORCED TO HALT PIPELINE WORK AFTER A CYBERATTACK

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• Colonial Pipeline issued a statement where it said that the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems

• In a statement issued on Friday, the company said “Colonial Pipeline is taking steps to understand a...

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TAKING STEPS TO PROTECT US' ELECTRIC SYSTEM FROM CYBERATTACKS

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• This initiative encourages owners and operators of power plants and electric utilities to improve their capabilities in order to identify cyber threats to their networks

• The Energy Department initiative is also inclusive of concrete milestones for them...

INFORMATION SECURITY EXPERTS REPORT 607 COMPANIES IN JAPAN WERE HIT BY CYBERATTACKS

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• Information security experts report 607 companies in Japan were hit by cyberattacks.
• Many major firms and government agencies in Japan was hit by cyberattack this year.
• Staff IDs, passwords, and other authentication data ...

JAPAN’S SHIONOGI & CO. WAS HIT BY A CYBERATTACK LEADING TO DATA BREACH

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• Japan’s Shionogi & Co. was hit by a cyberattack leading to a data breach.
• The drug firm’s Taiwanese subsidiary was hit by the cyberattack last month.
• Import licenses for medical equipment and employee res...

Why a fragile U.S. infrastructure? The weak tech

The DHS warning did not even use the term "Technology," and it addressed all physical and cyber threats which a nation-state attacker might manipulate.

A number of its recommendations-risk analysis, best practices on cybersecurity, vulnerability scanning and patching, and whit...

The report features danger of cyberattacks and fear-mongering during the Tokyo Olympics

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Cyberattacks currently value little corporations $200,000 on the average

43% of cyberattacks are aimed toward small businesses, but only 14 July are able to defend themselves, in step with Accenture. These incidents presently worth small businesses $200,000 on the typical, reveals insurance carrier Hiscox, with time unit of them going out of business among six months ...

Norad on cyber threats

North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) has asked the Canadian military to initiate an inventory of its bases and of its civilian infrastructure, especially to highlight the critical systems more prone to cyberattack. Cyber experts suggest the results speak in support of both the defence...