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- Cyber attack hits oil giant and banks in Russia and Ukraine | Reuters
Russia's top oil producer Rosneft (ROSN.MM) said a large-scale cyber attack hit its servers on Tuesday and computer systems at some banks and the main airport in neighboring Ukraine were also disrupted. - Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe - Meldungen - "Katastrophenvorsorge und -management (KaVoMa)"
KaVoMa ist ein berufsbegleitender Masterstudiengang, der sich an Fach- und Führungskräfte aus dem Bevölkerungsschutz / Katastrophenschutz richtet. Er wird seit 2006 in Kooperation von BBK und Universität Bonn angeboten. - Airline IT Failures - all in the plumbing? -
The public has recently seen airline after airline suffer major IT failures that grind operations to a halt, cancel flights, strand thousands of passengers and cost millions of pounds. The affected airlines and their executives seem surprised that the problem continues to arise, first at one airline and then at another. - Cheaper Cyber Insurance in the Works for Apple, Cisco Customers
Apple Inc. is working with Cisco Systems Inc. to help businesses that primarily use gear from both companies to get a discount on cyber-security insurance premiums, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on Monday. - Massenaktionen geplant: Wird der Hamburger Hafen zum Ziel von G-20-Gegnern? - WELT
Er ist ein Symbol des Welthandels und könnte beim Gipfel zum Ziel von Protesten werden. Doch Sicherheitsbehörden und Betreiber wollen den möglichst störungsfreien Betrieb des Hafens gewährleisten. - Human error is the root cause of password reset email sent to AA customersSecurity Affairs
UK car insurance company AA accidentally sent out a "password update" email to its customers, the messages led the motorists to log into the motoring organization's website to change their passwords. The concurrent access of a so large number of customers crashed the AA servers, then its customers couldn't access their profiles, believing their accounts were compromised by hackers. - 1 in 5 Irish companies held to ransom demands by cyber criminals in the last 12 months - IT Governance Blog
One in five companies in Ireland have in the past 12 months become a victim to ransomware, the same malware used in the WannaCry attacks. - Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet - The Resilience Post
The 2016 attack on Ukraine's power grid that deprived part of its capital, Kiev, of power for an hour was caused by a cyberattack. ESET researchers have since analyzed samples of malware, detected by ESET as Win32/Industroyer, capable of performing exactly that type of attack.
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