All posts tagged with cyberwar

(Natural News) A report by the European policing agency Europol has revealed that the proliferation of ransomware has topped other forms of cyber crime in 2017. According to the 80-page report, ransomware has outperformed other forms of cybercrime and has steadily impacted victims across multiple industries in both the public and private sectors. The policing agency has coordinated several successful […]

(Natural News) In the age of the computer, we are constantly reminded of just how vulnerable our lives have become to cyber attack. In recent years cyber attacks have increased dramatically, having been launched scores of times against critical and non-critical infrastructure around the world. In addition, so-called “ransomware” attacks, like the recent one involving […]

(Natural News) The more cyber security experts look into the weekend “ransomware” attack that targeted tens of thousands of computers in Europe and Asia using software stolen from the NSA, the more they believe that North Korea was behind the attacks. As reported by The New York Times, cadres of North Korean cyber “sleeper cells” […]

(Natural News) A day before a global ransomware attack crippled the National Health Service in Britain and struck Russian government offices as well as institutions in dozens of other countries, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order instructing federal department heads to focus on strengthening cybersecurity, with an eye toward protecting critical national infrastructure […]

Dan Goodin of Ars Technica writes that the DHS-FBI report on Russian hacking in 2016 “provides almost no new evidence to support the Obama Administration’s claims Russia attempted to interfere with the US electoral process.” (Natural News) (Article by Breitbart News, republished from breitbart.com) From Ars Technica: Talk about disappointments. The US government’s much-anticipated analysis […]