Category: cyber attacks

Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.2 million

Post author By Randall
Post date May 27, 2019
Categories In Art, auction, bidding, cyber attacks, Cybersecurity, deep instinct, gadgetry, gear, guo o dong, laptop, malware, persistence of chaos, personal computing, personalcomputing, ransomeware, Samsung, samsung nc10, Security, Tech, virus

[ad_1] Commissioned by cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, “The Persistence of Chaos“ was created by artist Guo O Dong, who told The Verge that the piece is a way to give abstract cyber threats physical form. It contains viruses like WannaCry, which infected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries and caused nearly $4 billion in […]

EU approves cyber-attack sanctions ahead of election

Post author By Randall
Post date May 17, 2019
Categories In China, cyber attacks, elections, Entertainment, eu, european parliament, european union, jeremy hunt, Politics, Russia, russian hackers, sanctions, Security, spearphishing, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in a statement called the move “decisive action” to deter future cyber attacks. “For too long now, hostile actors have been threatening the EU’s security through disrupting critical infrastructure, attempts to undermine democracy and stealing commercial secrets and money running to billions of Euros,” said Hunt. Russia and China […]