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In 2017, 76% of organizations experienced phishing attacks. Nearly half of information security professionals surveyed said that the rate of attacks increased from 2016. In the first half of 2017 businesses and residents of Qatar were hit with more than 93,570 phishing events in a three-month span. [71]
"The Guardians of Peace" linked by the United States to North Korea launched a cyber attack against SONY pictures. Embarrassing private emails were published and the organization threatened attacks against theaters that showed The Interview, a satire which depicted the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Following the refusal of ...
The term "pharming" is a neologism based on the words "farming" and "phishing". Phishing is a type of social-engineering attack to obtain access credentials, such as user names and passwords. In recent years, both pharming and phishing have been used to gain information for online identity theft.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, the first time it took credit for a U.S.-based attack. U.S. officials, however, say the attack was inspired ...
But because these attacks happen in cyberspace, the battlefield is less tangible, and nation-state attacks blend in with service outages like AT&T’s, which turned out to be a software update ...
5. James Earl Ray. On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King Jr. during a speech at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., forever changing history.
State security officials and American corporate security officers were concerned that these attacks might be a prelude to hacking of election infrastructure during the elections of the subsequent month, like similar incidents during the 2016 United States elections and other attacks; [162] there was, however, no evidence that they performed ...
The attack – a brazen car-ramming that investigators say was an ISIS-inspired act of terrorism – was already over by the time Cothran looked over the railing to the scene on Bourbon Street below.