Experts have confirmed the Internet is in the midst of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in cyber history .
These recent cyber attacks affect key parts of the Internet’s infrastructure and messes up Internet speeds in several European countries.
According to Mashable, the initial fair game was Spamhaus, a European anti-spam company that blacklists emails considered as spam by its filters and sells the lists to Internet service providers (ISPs).
In mid-March, …

A hacker group has breached the security of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company.
The cyber-attack, allegedly by Arab hackers, separated infected company workstations from production systems.
According to Saudi Aramco’s Facebook page, it handled the situation by shutting down access from outside visitors as a preemptive

AT&T is currently investigating a coordinated cyber attack where hackers tried to breach up to 1 million customer accounts.

AT&T is currently investigating a well thought-out hacking attack where hackers tried to compromise information of up to 1 million customers of the wireless carrier.
The information was confirmed by AT&T on Monday, the Washington Post said in a report.
According to the Post, AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said to them in an emailed statement that “The …

A report from the US government has accused China and Russia for hacking attacks and spying activities.

The US condemns the hacking attacks and spying activities from China and Russia. (Image: quatro.sinko (CC), via Flickr)

The October-dated report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace comes from the Office of Counter Intelligence.
According to the report, cyber-attacks against financial and government institutions have increased, showing a graphic with a Wall …

The government of Japan will be closely working together with private firms about cyber attacks, a report from the Nikkei business daily said.

Japan will be working more closely with private companies to stem cyber attacks. Image: scottgunn / Flickr (CC)

The news comes after Mitsubishi Heavy industries, the country’s largest defense contractor, disclosed last month that it discovered cyber attacks on its systems.
The cyber attacks included the installation of malware on computers found at …

After a widespread suspicion that China was behind what has recently been reported as the largest cyber attack discovered, one of its government agencies reported Tuesday that the country suffered from cyber attacks during the past year too.

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According to China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Coordination Center, nearly 500,000 cyber attacks targeted computers in China during the past year.
Turning the tables, the agency revealed that a bulk of …

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The People’s Republic of China is seen as likely the “state actor” behind a string of cyber attacks conducted during the past five years and is dubbed as the world’s largest cyber attack ever, a report from Reuters and various other reports reveal.
Revealed by security firm McAfee, the cyber attacks codenamed “Operation Shady RAT” for Remote Access Tool are said to have been …

The Pentagon has finally released its much anticipated strategy for handling cyber attacks and protecting its necessary infrastructure and computer networks from them, and because the document stresses that the military is vulnerability to attack in this arena, it confirms what many have thought for some time – cyberspace, after, air, land, sea, and space has become the fifth domain of warfare.
 

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The document does not say that if the United …