# hackers - Friday 12 August, 2022
# Cyber Attack
# Cyber Attack
There has been a steady increase in ransomware attacks by cyber thieves in recent months.
# hackers - Friday 25 March, 2022
# Cyber Hacking
# Cyber Hacking
The three men were indicted by a grand jury in the US following an FBI investigation.
# hackers - Thursday 20 January, 2022
# Hacked
# Hacked
It was not immediately clear who was behind the breach.
# hackers - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Darkside
# Darkside
The cyberattack caused short-term fuel shortages and drew attention to the broader threat that of the burgeoning ransomware industry.
# hackers - Thursday 27 May, 2021
# Hackers
# Hackers
Eight people have died from Covid-19 in the last 12 days, the HSE also confirmed.
# hackers - Wednesday 17 February, 2021
# Hackers
# Hackers
Federal prosecutors said the hacks include an attack targeting an American movie studio and an extortion scheme.
# hackers - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# Oldsmar
# Oldsmar
Authorities in Oldsmar quickly realised what was happening and thwarted the attempt.
# hackers - Thursday 3 January, 2019
# Bitcoin
# Bitcoin
The records of those who had signed up for the Luas newsletter had been compromised, Transdev said this afternoon.
# hackers - Friday 5 October, 2018
# Hackers
# Hackers
Russia scathingly accused the West of “spy mania”, with the Russian foreign office describing the accusations as “propaganda”.
# hackers - Tuesday 24 April, 2018
# Data Breach
# Data Breach
A full garda investigation is now underway.
# hackers - Friday 5 January, 2018
# Cyber Attack
# Cyber Attack
The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities could allow hackers to access sensitive data on most computers.
# hackers - Thursday 4 January, 2018
# Security Risks
# Security Risks
Patches have been issued to help protect against the flaws.
# Cyber Security
# Cyber Security
Researchers said any fix for the bug could slow computers down by 30% or more.
# hackers - Tuesday 22 August, 2017
# TUEs
From The42
# TUEs
The documents published today claim over 150 players failed drugs tests in 2015.
# hackers - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
# Game Of Thrones
# Game Of Thrones
They’ve threatened to upload entire series and sensitive proprietary files.
# hackers - Saturday 13 May, 2017
# On High Alert
# On High Alert
The NHS in the UK was attacked by hackers yesterday leading to fears the Irish system could be targeted.
# hackers - Wednesday 15 March, 2017
# Spat
# Spat
The hackers were supporters of the Turkish president in an ongoing row with the Netherlands and Germany.
# hackers - Friday 3 March, 2017
# Online Crime
# Online Crime
Police had previously used fake teens to trap potential paedophiles.
# hackers - Friday 30 December, 2016
# Top Secret
# Top Secret
The site has been taken down by hackers identifying themselves as the Hackback movement and Anonymous.
# hackers - Sunday 6 November, 2016
# Cyber Wars
# Cyber Wars
The debate around how to strike back against hackers is ongoing around the world.
# hackers - Monday 18 July, 2016
# Gotta Claim Them All
# Gotta Claim Them All
Two different groups are claiming responsibility for the game’s servers going down over the weekend.
# hackers - Monday 4 July, 2016
# Botnet
# Botnet
Thousands of cameras and internet-connected devices were used to overwhelm banking sites and government institutions with fake traffic.
# hackers - Saturday 28 November, 2015
Any connected device “can be a pivot point into your network,” one expert warned.
# hackers - Thursday 5 November, 2015
# Hoods Off
# Hoods Off
‘This is not about the ideas of members of the Ku Klux Klan. This is about the behaviours of members of KKK splinter cells that bear the hallmarks of terrorism.’
# hackers - Friday 30 October, 2015
# Taking Off The Hood
# Taking Off The Hood
Anonymous has been in a cyber war with the group since protests in Ferguson, Missouri last year.
# hackers - Saturday 8 August, 2015
# Hackers
# Hackers
No Irish customers have been affected.
# hackers - Wednesday 4 March, 2015
# Encryption
# Encryption
Hackers may be harvesting your sensitive personal information.
# hackers - Friday 20 February, 2015
# Security Flaws
# Security Flaws
It could have software called Superfish, and it contains some major security flaws (but you can remove it).
# hackers - Sunday 18 January, 2015
# Week In Web
# Week In Web
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# hackers - Monday 5 January, 2015
# All Gone Now
# All Gone Now
The flaw allowed anyone to bypass Apple’s security system and repeatedly guess a user’s iCloud password without getting locked out.
# hackers - Thursday 18 December, 2014
# Hacked
# Hacked
“The targets might not stop with the borders of Syria.”
# hackers - Sunday 7 December, 2014
The hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is one of the most debilitating ever targeted at US corporate servers.
# hackers - Saturday 6 December, 2014
# Hermit Kingdom
# Hermit Kingdom
It is reportedly the first to use “a highly destructive class of malicious software that is designed to make computer networks unable to operate” into a company’s computer system in the United States.
# hackers - Thursday 20 November, 2014
# Camera Obscura
# Camera Obscura
There are currently 53 Irish cameras on the website.
# hackers - Friday 3 October, 2014
# BadUSB
# BadUSB
Even completely deleting the contents of a USB stick wouldn’t get rid of the dangerous code.
# hackers - Monday 11 August, 2014
# Hackers
# Hackers
An attack by Russian hackers has seen 1.2 billion passwords stolen.
# hackers - Monday 16 June, 2014
# Doh-balls
From The Daily Edge
# Doh-balls
I’ll have pepperoni, mushrooms, and a side of hackers please.
# hackers - Saturday 31 May, 2014
# Hacked Up
# Hacked Up
Jay Radcliffe showed that the pump he uses can be hacked to make diabetics overdose.
# hackers - Wednesday 28 May, 2014
# Spy Cam
From The Daily Edge
# Spy Cam
Always feel like, somebody’s watching meeee.
# hackers - Tuesday 29 April, 2014
# Life Hack
From The Daily Edge
Sun and clouds with a couple of showers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 7 °C
Partly sunny
Max: 15 °C
Min: 10 °C
Rain tapering off; watch for flooding
Max: 17 °C
Min: 9 °C
