Dark web criminals extorting millions from companies with sophisticated online attacks, experts urge cyber hygiene and stronger defenses.
The threat is for real. The dark web targets companies, organisations and individuals on the internet. Money is extorted by resorting to threats. How big is the problem? What are companies doing to handle this threat? And how are problems being solved? Prasad Patibandla, Director, Research and Operations at Centre for Research on Cyber Intelligence and Digital Forensics explains how companies and organisations are targeted and what precautions are to be taken.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Internet service at the University of Michigan was cut off by the university after a cybersecurity threat was detected on Monday, the first day of fall classes for many students.
“We recognize that cutting off online services to our campus community on the eve of a new academic year is stressful and a major inconvenience. We sincerely apologize for the disruption this has caused. Our Information Assurance team, in partnership with leading cybersecurity service providers, detects, deflects, and mitigates a steady stream of malicious actors every hour of every day.
Sunday afternoon, after careful evaluation of a significant security concern, we made the intentional decision to sever our ties to the internet. We took this action to provide our information technology teams the space required to address the issue in the safest possible manner.”
The university said it may be several days before all online services return to normal activity. Here’s some info they offered for students:
It appears that the impact is not the same across the university or on all campuses. All clinical applications at Michigan Medicine are functional and no patient care has been disrupted.
Classes are meeting on all three campuses. Faculty members will, to the best of their abilities, communicate directly with students directly regarding any needed adjustments. Please check ro.umich.edu/calendars/schedule-of-classes to view public course schedules and locations.
Campus leaders recognize that many students rely on U-M systems to access class information and navigate campus, especially on the first day of classes. Consideration will be given to students for impacts to class attendance or assignments that depend on U-M systems while our teams work to restore service.
Campus remains open. Residence halls, dining facilities, classroom buildings, and all university offices are operational. Individual units are making local decisions about where (on campus or remotely) employees are best able to fulfill their roles.
In recognition of the challenges faced during this outage, students will not incur late registration or…
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Vijayawada: Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said that State governments are responsible for the prevention, investigation of cyber crimes through police departments including in training the police personnel and upgrading their technical knowhow to investigate and crack such crimes.
Replying to a question raised by YSRCP MP V Vijayasai Reddy in Rajya Sabha on Friday on increasing cyber crimes in rural India and cyber attackers targeting rural population with less awareness, the Union Minister said a toll free number 1930 was set up by the Central government.
He said a Cyber Crime Coordination Centre under the Ministry of Home Affairs has been designated as the nodal point in the fight against cyber crime. In addition CY Train portal was developed by Cyber Coordination centre for the capacity building of police officers.
The Union Minister said Cyber Swachhta Kendra-Botnet cleaning and Malware analysis centre operated by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has been established. The centre works in coordination and collaboration with Internet service providers, academia and Industry.
The centre facilitates detection of malicious programmes and free tools to remove the same for common users.
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Domestic solar panels are vulnerable to hackers who could use them to steal personal information or launch denial of service attacks, the digital watchdog RDI has warned.
The inspectorate for digital infrastructure said vulnerabilities in the inverters, the devices that convert the solar energy stored in the panels into electricity, could also be tapped to power smartphones or laptops.
Inspectors from the RDI tested nine types of inverter from eight manufacturers, none of which met its security standards. Five had the potential to cause disruption to the electricity network.
The number of solar panel installations has grown rapidly in recent years from 1.8 million in 2015 to 16.3 million in 2021.
John Derksen, head of equipment at the RDI, said solar panel systems were too easy to hack via an internet connection and urged manufacturers to improve their security.
He said the findings were a wake-up call for the industry, which will be legally required to meet the RDI’s cybersecurity standards from August next year.
Inspectors are concerned that recent geopolitical events such as the invasion of Ukraine by Russia have made attacks on western infrastructure more likely.
Derksen also said householders needed to be more aware of the warning signs so they could alert inspectors if their devices started behaving unusually.
“Even the aviation and shipping industries can experience disruption because of this,” he told NOS Radio 1 Journaal. “The average citizen has little or know knowledge of radio frequencies.
“They might notice strange things going on with their wireless devices and connections, such as bad wifi, but don’t connect it to solar panels, so we at the RDI aren’t informed about it.”
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