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In 2020 their system was hacked with a Denial of Service Cyber attack. [ 3 ] The two main types of cyberattacks on schools are distributed denial of service ( Ddos ) - an attack which overwhelms the target's internet bandwidth, and ransomware - where the hacker takes control of the target's computer system and demands money. [ 4 ]
In the first six months of 2017, two billion data records were stolen or impacted by cyber attacks, and ransomware payments reached US$2 billion, double that in 2016. [7] In 2020, with the increase of remote work as an effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic, cybersecurity statistics reveal a huge increase in hacked and breached data. [ 8 ]
The attacks resulted in the government cutting off internet access in the departments affected and various responses from both the Canadian government and the Chinese government. 2012 Operation Ababil , a series of cyber attacks starting in 2012, targeting various American financial institutions and carried out by a group calling itself the ...
After successfully stealing appropriate session cookies an adversary might use the Pass the Cookie technique to perform session hijacking. Cookie hijacking is commonly used against client authentication on the internet. Modern web browsers use cookie protection mechanisms to protect the web from being attacked. [1]
Because side-channel attacks rely on the relationship between information emitted (leaked) through a side channel and the secret data, countermeasures fall into two main categories: (1) eliminate or reduce the release of such information and (2) eliminate the relationship between the leaked information and the secret data, that is, make the leaked information unrelated, or rather uncorrelated ...
The tech-dependent state experienced severe turmoil and there was a great deal of concern over the nature and intent of the attack. The cyber attack was a result of an Estonian-Russian dispute over the removal of a bronze statue depicting a World War II-era Soviet soldier from the center of the capital, Tallinn. [4]
Watering hole is a computer attack strategy in which an attacker guesses or observes which websites an organization often uses and infects one or more of them with malware.
A cyber security risk mitigating end user program could consist of a combination of multiple approaches including cyber security awareness, cyber security training, and cyber security education. According to, and adopted from, [1] see the below table that provides a comparison of the approaches.