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Top 10 Cyber Security incidents from the last years

There have been many significant cyber security incidents in recent years, and it is difficult to rank them in terms of their importance or impact. Here is a list of ten examples of significant cyber security incidents that have occurred in the past few years: The WannaCry

Twitch hacked, The entire source code was leaked, Streamers payouts made public

An anonymous hacker states to have released the entire application logic of Twitch, including its source code and client payout data. The hacker posted a 125GB archive with a lot of Twitch resources to 4chan on Wednesday, expressing that the hole was expected to encourage more disturbance

Verizon hacked, 1.5 million customers details for sale

According to cyber security blogger Brian Krebs, more than 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers contact information was leaked on an underground cybercrime forum. Not all Verizon’s customers were affected, the hack targeted only Verizon’s B2B Enterprise Solutions. Krebs says that earlyer this week, a deep-web forum advertised

NetHack DevTeam announced the release of NetHack 3.6

NetHack is one of the all-time top 100 video games. That’s how the Time magazine named an article back in 2012. Today the NetHack devteam is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6. What is NetHack? According to wikipedia, “NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game

A new chapter of the Cold War technology between the US and China

    A Chinese state company, Tsinghua UniGroup, preparing an offer of no less than 23 billion dollars to purchase Micron Technology. Tsinghua is the largest China’s chipmaker, and Micron is emblematic of the American production of memory chips. Beijing’s intention, was made public by sources close to the

FBI offers reward of 4.2 million dollars for five hackers

The Washington Post published the list of most wanted hackers, offering a total of 4.2 million dollars for them. Russian Yevgeny Mikhailovich Bogacev, dubbed ZeuS comes first, offering $ 3 million for his capture. He is accused of Trojans used to steal bank account details, passwords and

One of the most serious cyber attack against the US. Hackers are supposed to be Chinese

Personal data of 18 million current, former and potential employees US government was accessed after a cyber attack to the Office for Personnel Management (OPM). The number of people affected is four times more than the recognized public agency, reported CNN.  The estimate of 18 million was made

Hackers supports Islamic State

Increasingly,more and more hackers offer help in spreading Islamic State terror network messages, attacking the websites of media organizations, according to security company FireEye. “Supporters help the terrorist organization Islamic State for opportunistic attacks and more sophisticated cyber operations”, specifies the company FireEye. French TV5 Monde station

Chinese Hackers stole data from up to 4 million American federal employees

The US government announced on Thursday it had detected computer piracy of personal data belonging to a total of four million federal employees who, according to the Washington Post, were committed by the Chinese. This “cyber intrusion” was detected in April 2015 the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),

Hackers attacked the US IRS: personal data of more than 100,000 Americans, compromised

IRS (Internal Revenue Service), believes that the hackers who stole personal data of 100,000 US taxpayers would come from Russia. The attacks took place over a period of four months and authorities have found that it contained some cyber criminals in the country led by Vladimir Putin, shows