Rapid globalisation, acceleration in gender diversity and growing neurodiversity among hackers have all been highlighted as key factors for the future by the Inside the Mind of a Hacker report from Bugcrowd.
The report shines a light on the vital need for a blend of "human ingenuity and AI-powered" security solutions to protect critical infrastructure, experts from the crowdsourced security company said.
Among the report's key findings, human ingenuity supported by "actionable intelligence" was found to be critical ingredients to maintaining a resilient infrastructure.
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Egypt cyber attack on Ethiopia is strike over the Grand Dam — Quartz Africa
In an extension of a bilateral dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the $4.8 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Nile River, Egyptian hackers launched a cyber attack on a number of Ethiopian government websites over the course of the past week.
The two countries have been at loggerheads with each other for years over Ethiopia's construction of the massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile—Egypt's sole water source for irrigation farming and in general for its 100 million-strong population.. But as the source of 85% of the Nile's waters, Ethiopia, which maintains that the Chinese-backed dam, , is crucial to attaining developmental goals and combating poverty.
Study of global hackers and the economics of security research - Help Net Security
Human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence were found to be critical ingredients to maintaining a resilient infrastructure , Bugcrowd reveals. In fact, 78% of hackers indicated AI-powered cybersecurity solutions alone aren't enough to outmaneuver cyber attacks over the next decade.
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87% of hackers say that scanners cannot find as many critical or unknown assets as humans. While 2019 was a record year for data breaches, the report found that hackers prevented $8.9B of cybercrime in 2019 and earned 38% more than they did in the previous period.
Julian Assange Accused of Conspiring With Anonymous Hackers | Time
Assange, who’s detained in the U.K. on a U.S. extradition request, gave the leader of LulzSec a list of targets to hack in 2012 and told this person that the most influential release of hacked materials would be from the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency or the New York Times, according to a statement Wednesday from the Justice Department.
The LulzSec leader was cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time, according to the statement.
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Hackers disrupt online college meeting with racist language
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Hackers used racist language and anti-Semitic images to disrupt an online meeting of Wake Forest University employees, the school's president said.
"This was a traumatizing experience for many on the call, especially our Black colleagues, and it reinforces that we all have a role to play in protecting each other and our community from those who would seek to force their hatred upon us," Hatch wrote.
Hackers disrupt Wake Forest Zoom meeting with racist language | TheHill
Online hackers disrupted a Zoom meeting of hundreds of Wake Forest University staff on Wednesday using racist language and anti-Semitic images.
Nearly 500 Wake Forest employees were on the virtual meeting call organized by the university's Staff Advisory Council when anonymous hackers disrupted it.
Hatch said organizers swiftly shut down the meeting. When it was restarted, the hackers regained access and continued their virtual attack.
Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home - The New York Times
A Russian ransomware group whose leaders were indicted by the Justice Department in December is retaliating against the U.S. government, many of America's largest companies and a major news organization, identifying employees working from home during the pandemic and attempting to get inside their networks with malware intended to cripple their operations.
Sophisticated new attacks by the hacking group — which the Treasury Department claims has at times worked for Russian intelligence — were identified in recent days by Symantec Corporation, a division of Broadcom, one of the many firms that monitors corporate and government networks.
Hackers posting ISIS flags on Facebook accounts | wkyc.com
"I uploaded pictures and videos of my dad, and you can hear his voice, and watching him playing with my kids when they were little," she explained.
Second, she used the account to promote her business, Mom's Best , where she creates personalized gifts. She lost her ability to reach customers and lost money on current orders.
She contacted Facebook which said it would investigate. And minutes later, it sent back a message saying her account, or activity on it, didn't follow its community standards. So they deactivated her account.
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