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US under constant cyber attack threatThe top US general in charge of cyber security warned on Tuesday that the United States is increasingly vulnerable to attacks like those that destroyed data on tens of thousands of computers in Saudi Arabia and South Korea in the past year. More… |
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Bahrain ‘facing major Internet disruption’Internet users in Bahrain are facing weeks of disruption following what experts are saying is the biggest cyber attack in history by saboteurs, a report said. Millions of people worldwide have already suffered days of slow speeds, More… |
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Internet slowed by attack on spam blockerOne of the largest ever cyber attacks is slowing global internet services and the disruption could get worse, experts said on Wednesday, after an organisation blocking "spam" content became a target. &nbs More… |
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Cyber attack hits JPMorgan Chase siteThe consumer banking website of JPMorgan Chase & Co was unavailable to some users on Tuesday as the company tried to deal with a denial-of-service cyber attack that slowed access for some customers. More… |
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ME businesses 'must be alert on cyber attacks'Businesses in the region need to be alert about the possibility of becoming targets of cyber attacks, a leading Internet security expert has warned. According to International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) senior fellow f More… |
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Cyber 9/11 looming, warns US homeland chiefUS Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has warned that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year's Superstorm Sandy, which knocked out electricity in a large swath More… |
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Iran 'defeats' cyber attack on industrial sitesAn Internet virus that attacked computers at industrial sites in southern Iran, in an apparent extension of a covert cyber war that initially targeted the country's nuclear facilities, has been neutralised, an Iranian official said. More… |
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Aramco cyber attack 'aimed to disrupt oil flow'Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Aramco, said on Sunday a cyber attack against it in August which damaged some 30,000 computers was aimed at stopping oil and gas production at the biggest Opec exporter. &nb More… |
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SMEs 'facing biggest e-security challenge'The UAE’s booming small and medium sized enterprise (SME) sector is vital to the country's development and hence steps must be taken to safeguard their businesses from cyber attacks, said a leading IT expert. The problem More… |
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Cyber attacks 'mainly an insider job'The existing policy of allowing employees liberal access to a company's information technology systems is the main cause for cyber attacks in Bahrain, said a top Interior Ministry official. "In several prominent Bahraini More… |
