Scottish parliament hit by cyber-attack similar to Westminster assault Hackers have mounted a "brute force" cyber-attack on the Scottish parliament's computer systems, weeks after a similar attack on email accounts at Westminster. MSPs and Holyrood staff were warned on Tuesday that hackers were attempting to access numerous email accounts by systematically and repeatedly trying to crack their passwords. Holyrood officials said they were not aware of any compromised email accounts, but staff and MSPs were warned the attack could mean some people were locked out of their accounts.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/16/scottish-parliament-hit-cyber-attack-similar-westminster-assault/ Venezuela's public telcos collapse under cyber-attack Fibre-based and mobile services delivered by Cantv and Movilnet in Venezuela have been switched off as a result of a continued and concerted cyber-attack. The attack, directed at Venezuela's public infrastructure, has been assumed by a group called
The Binary Guardians and has not only affected telecom services, but has blocked many .ve-domain websites, including all the Government platforms and the Supreme Court's site.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/16/venezuelas-public-telcos-collapse-cyber-attack/ AP Moller-Maersk counts cost of cyber attack but swings to profit AP Moller-Maersk said the Petya cyber attack had cost it $200m-$300m as the world's biggest container shipping line returned to profit, buoyed by relatively strong global trade. The Danish conglomerate said the majority of the impact from the cyber attack would be felt in the third quarter, due to lost revenues in July, after its entire IT system including booking applications was brought down by malware hidden in a document used to file tax returns in Ukraine.
https://www.ft.com/content/3e6828e7-e9b8-3785-9b95-45b45c3a2e3b U.S. Worried North Korea Will Unleash Cyberattacks As tensions rise over North Korea's potential
nuclear missile threat, U.S. officials and outside experts are increasingly concerned the rogue regime will respond to international pressure by lashing out with a weapon it has already mastered: cyberattacks that can disable corporate networks, steal money from banks and potentially disrupt critical infrastructure. American intelligence officials have long ranked North Korea as one of the world's more dangerous cyber actors, trailing only Russia, China and Iran among U.S. adversaries in its ability to inflict damage via computer networks.
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2017/08/16/ap-moller-maersk-counts-cost-cyber-attack-swings-profit/ Web application attacks accounted for 73% of all incidents says report Web application attacks accounted for 73 percent of all incidents flagged in an 18-month evaluation period according to a new report from Alert Logic which also says that web application attacks affected 85 percent of all its customers, with injection-style attacks such as SQL injection the main culprit. The company's
2017 Cloud Security Report is based on customer data from more than 3,800 Alert Logic cloud, on-premises and hybrid cloud customers over an 18 month period, from August 1, 2015 to January 31, 2017.
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