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# cyber-attack - Friday 27 December, 2019
Cyber attack plan aims to protect State hospitals, energy networks and security systems
The new strategy sets out how to ensure the State’s infrastructure and computer networks are “resilient, safe and secure”.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 4 July, 2019
FAI say no employee or customer data leaked in Abbotstown cyber attack
A statement from the association moved to ‘close out this incident’ following last month’s security breach.
# cyber-attack - Monday 10 June, 2019
Hacker behind TalkTalk cyber attack sentenced to 4 years in youth detention centre
The attack cost the company €86.3 million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 6 June, 2019
Data hack has no impact on ongoing investigations - FAI
The Association were subject to an external hack of their servers last week.
# cyber-attack - Sunday 30 December, 2018
Cyber attack delays printing and delivery of major US newspapers
The attack appears to have originated outside the US.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 6 September, 2018
Bank card details of 380,000 British Airways customers hacked
The bank card details were taken from cards making bookings between 21 August and 5 September.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 13 June, 2018
Dixons Carphone yet to determine if Irish customers affected by major cyber attack
The attack attempted to compromise 5.9 million customer payment cards.
# cyber-attack - Friday 5 January, 2018
Apple confirms all Mac and iOS devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre security flaws
The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities could allow hackers to access sensitive data on most computers.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 28 June, 2017
Poll: If your computer was hacked, would you pay the €264 ransom?
This is the second worldwide cyber attack of this year – so what would you do if it happened to you?
# cyber-attack - Sunday 25 June, 2017
Irish government 'monitoring situation carefully' after UK Parliament cyber attack
Yesterday the House of Commons said it had discovered unauthorised attempts to access parliamentary user email accounts.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 17 May, 2017
5,000 cyber-attacks were attempted against one Irish hospital in just 24 hours
The HSE decided to cut external communications, including emails and server connections, on Friday.
# cyber-attack - Tuesday 16 May, 2017
HSE remains cut off from external networks as finger points to North Korea over cyber attack
Ireland has remained largely unaffected by the global cyber attack, which hit more than 200,000 victims.
# cyber-attack - Monday 15 May, 2017
Tusla warns that child protection reports may not have been received over weekend
The Department of Communications described the global cyber attack as “unprecedented”.
Worldwide ransomware attacks - what we know so far
Over 29,000 institutions have been hit in China.
# cyber-attack - Sunday 14 May, 2017
Growing global cyberattack hits 200,000 victims so far and there's more to come
Fears for millions of users who will be turning on their computers tomorrow morning.
# cyber-attack - Friday 12 May, 2017
HSE removes all external access to its network following NHS cyber attack
The HSE leadership convened a meeting tonight to decide what steps to take.
'This was an international attack': NHS plunged into chaos in large-scale cyber hack
Theresa May has said the cyber attack wasn’t specifically targeting the NHS.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 27 April, 2017
Investigation launched into cyber attack on Trinity fund
It’s hoped that the funds will be at least partly recovered.
# cyber-attack - Tuesday 6 December, 2016
Eir only became aware of potential security breach after reading about it online
The company will contact 130,000 customers after at least 2,000 modems were breached.
# cyber-attack - Tuesday 15 March, 2016
Online group Anonymous aims to bring down major Trump site
The hacktivist group has had a long-running campaign against the presidential hopeful.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 31 December, 2015
BBC website brought down by 'large cyber attack'
The website is back online now.
# cyber-attack - Saturday 8 August, 2015
Millions of customers could be affected by Carphone Warehouse cyber attack
No Irish customers have been affected.
# cyber-attack - Monday 8 June, 2015
'Large cyber attack' brings down Waterford Institute exam website on results day
The latest update just over an hour ago is that the website is back up and running.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 9 April, 2015
TV network taken off air after 'unprecedented' cyberattack
The station was unable to broadcast on any of its channels.
# cyber-attack - Saturday 20 December, 2014
Opinion: Sony has capitulated to terrorist demands – it will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech
Pretty much any nefarious tin-pot dictator can pay hackers to go do a job for them. Will the people of the free world just throw their hands up in surrender?
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 22 October, 2014
Apple posts new security warning for iCloud users
There are numerous reports of attacks on iClouds users in China.
# cyber-attack - Monday 8 September, 2014
Nude celebrity photos might not be to blame for New Zealand internet crash
The company involved now suspects a cyber attack may have taken place.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 21 May, 2014
The 5 at 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Government issues tender for deliberate hacker attack
The Department of Communications has said that existing services and systems will not be impacted by the exercise.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Dispute between two companies leads to biggest ever 'cyber attack'
Have you noticed your internet being slower than usual in the last few days? This may be why.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 21 March, 2013
North Korea threatens to strike US military bases
The threat comes as tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest level for years.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 20 March, 2013
South Korean broadcasters and banks hit in suspected cyber attack
Immediate suspicion has turned to North Korea, which last week accused the South of taking its own websites offline.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Apple hit by cyber attack, says no data was stolen
“There is no evidence that any data left Apple,” Apple said as it confirmed an attack similar to one carried out on Facebook recently.
# cyber-attack - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Facebook network hit by 'sophisticated' cyber attack
The social networking giant said it found no evidence any user data was compromised.
# cyber-attack - Thursday 6 December, 2012
British student convicted over Anonymous PayPal hacking
Prosecutors said the assault on PayPal had cost the company €4.3 million in loss of trading as well as updates to fend off similar attacks.
# cyber-attack - Friday 30 November, 2012
Teens believe cyber bullying is worse than traditional bullying
Teens feel like it’s the worst kind because they “can’t escape it” and pictures and messages can be spread so quickly.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 29 February, 2012
Interpol website hacked after arrest of 25 suspected Anonymous members
Those arrested – aged between 17 and 25 – are suspected of planning cyber-attacks against several South American and European institutions. Interpol’s website went down following news of the arrests.
# cyber-attack - Friday 3 February, 2012
Hacked FBI-Met Police call refers to intelligence sharing with Irish authorities
A conversation between police in the UK and FBI agents in the US has been hacked and posted online by the Anonymous hacking collective today.
# cyber-attack - Wednesday 25 January, 2012
‘Whole government response to threat’ following #OpIreland cyber attack
The Department of Justice has confirmed it was subject to a Distributed Denial of Service attack overnight.
# cyber-attack - Tuesday 21 June, 2011
19-year-old Essex man arrested over CIA and Senate hacking
An English teen is suspected of being involved in the ‘LulzSec’ hacking movement, which denies any involvement.
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Poll: Will you pay attention to the Seanad general election?
COUNTING IN THE Seanad general election will begin today despite the Covid-19 public health emergency.
Postal voting in the election closes today at 11am for the 43 seats on the five vocational panels and tomorrow at 11am for the six seats on the university panels.
There are 118 candidates seeking election to the vocational panels.
Counting of the votes begins this morning and is expected to continue until Friday 3 April.
So, today we want to know: Will you pay attention to the Seanad general election?
Poll Results:
No (2817)
Yes (1326)
I'm not sure / no opinion (143)
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Conor Casey of Trinity College says a challenge to the new legislation would be unlikely to succeed.
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By Larry Donnelly - @LarryPDonnelly
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