Tag: cyber attack
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Funding announced for a Cybersecurity Aid Centre in Western Sydney
With cybercrime numbers souring across the world, cyber security is not only needed for the big corporates of the world. Small business is not only at risk from cyber security, it is also an easy target. Many small businesses have very little or no knowledge (or protection for that matter) of cybercrime and attacks. To…
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Microsoft blames Ukrainian tax software for Petya cyber attack
The global cyber attack, presenting itself as a ransomware virus known as ‘Petya’, that has struck numerous multinational corporations in the last 24 hours, and threatened the destruction of their data, is being attributed to faults in a Ukrainian tax software package. The software, provided by Ukrainian developers MeDoc, has been identified by cyber security firms,…