In this article, we look at how, in addition to the devastating missiles, rockets, bombs, tanks and other weapons, Ukraine has also been the subject of cyber-warfare and we look at how these and other war-related issues could be cause for concern across Europe. War In Ukraine At the time of writing this article, as Ukraine has come under…
A sacked school IT Technician who took revenge by deleting data and sabotaging his old school’s network (and by wiping the computers of everyone who was logged in) has been jailed. Revenge Hack As reported on Leicestershire Live, a court was told that Adam Georgeson, 29, who was dismissed from his job as an IT Technician last January at…
In a worrying trend, oil facilities in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have all recently been targeted by cyber-attacks. Germany The attack on German oil, vehicle fuel and petroleum products company Oiltanking Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG happened just over a week ago. Some reports have suggested that the company’s systems were hit by ransomware, thereby seriously limiting capacity….
A leaked bulletin from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned that, in light of the situation on Ukraine’s border, destructive cyber-attacks from Russia-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actors look likely to be launched soon. The Russian state is thought to have been behind a massive cyber-attack that targeted 70 Ukrainian government websites, and the National Cyber…
