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Tuesday 22 September 2020
Suspicions immediately fell on Beijing, which has recently slapped trade sanctions on Australian products.
The new strategy sets out how to ensure the State’s infrastructure and computer networks are “resilient, safe and secure”.
A statement from the association moved to ‘close out this incident’ following last month’s security breach.
The attack cost the company €86.3 million after the personal details of 157,000 customers were stolen.
The Association were subject to an external hack of their servers last week.
The attack appears to have originated outside the US.
The bank card details were taken from cards making bookings between 21 August and 5 September.
The attack attempted to compromise 5.9 million customer payment cards.
The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities could allow hackers to access sensitive data on most computers.
This is the second worldwide cyber attack of this year – so what would you do if it happened to you?
Yesterday the House of Commons said it had discovered unauthorised attempts to access parliamentary user email accounts.
The HSE decided to cut external communications, including emails and server connections, on Friday.
Ireland has remained largely unaffected by the global cyber attack, which hit more than 200,000 victims.
The Department of Communications described the global cyber attack as “unprecedented”.
Over 29,000 institutions have been hit in China.
Fears for millions of users who will be turning on their computers tomorrow morning.
The HSE leadership convened a meeting tonight to decide what steps to take.
Theresa May has said the cyber attack wasn’t specifically targeting the NHS.
It’s hoped that the funds will be at least partly recovered.
The company will contact 130,000 customers after at least 2,000 modems were breached.
The hacktivist group has had a long-running campaign against the presidential hopeful.
The website is back online now.
No Irish customers have been affected.
The latest update just over an hour ago is that the website is back up and running.
The station was unable to broadcast on any of its channels.
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?
There are numerous reports of attacks on iClouds users in China.
The company involved now suspects a cyber attack may have taken place.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
The Department of Communications has said that existing services and systems will not be impacted by the exercise.
Have you noticed your internet being slower than usual in the last few days? This may be why.
The threat comes as tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest level for years.
Immediate suspicion has turned to North Korea, which last week accused the South of taking its own websites offline.
“There is no evidence that any data left Apple,” Apple said as it confirmed an attack similar to one carried out on Facebook recently.
The social networking giant said it found no evidence any user data was compromised.
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.
Teens feel like it’s the worst kind because they “can’t escape it” and pictures and messages can be spread so quickly.
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.
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.
The Department of Justice has confirmed it was subject to a Distributed Denial of Service attack overnight.
IT’S A QUESTION that has been asked throughout the pandemic, but which has been raised again recently after the Oliver Bond Street party – would you call the Gardaí on your neighbours if you saw they broke Covid-19 restrictions on mass gatherings?
In the UK, junior minister for policing Kit Malthouse suggested that people should report their neighbours to the police if they’re concerned about gatherings that break the rules.
At the moment, Dublin is at Level Three which means that you can have visitors from one other household to your home or garden; while the rest of the country is at Level Two, which means you can have six visitors from up to three households to your home or garden.
So we’re asking you: Would you call the Gardaí if you saw your neighbours break Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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