SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Dozens of credit unions across the country are dealing with outages due to a ransomware attack.
Credit unions report the attack affected part of Trellance, a cloud computing firm used by many credit unions across the country.
At least 60 credit unions have been affected.
One credit union in New York facing outages due to the ransomware attack says online and mobile banking are down but that other services like debit cards are working normally.
The National Credit Union Association said the accounts of all customers are safe and are federally insured up to $250,000.
Recently hospitals, fuel pipelines and schools have all been disrupted by the ransomware attacks that lock up files unless someone pays up.
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No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber attack. This was presumably meant to be reassuring. It is anything but. It speaks, once more, of a Britain with creaking infrastructure, where national paralysis has become a regular occurrence. The highest tax revenues in peacetime history have not created a properly functioning country.
The breakdown was caused by a single mis-filed flight plan. That such havoc can result from one trivial event does little credit to the organisation entrusted with our airspace. This week’s event may not be a cyber attack, but hostile states and organisations will be taking note. If it is so easy to bring air traffic to a virtual standstill, then we lay ourselves open to the kind of attack that is likely to be an integral part of modern warfare.
Britain is the only country in Europe that has not managed to return its workforce to pre-pandemic levels
The government has been too lax on the issue of cyber security for far too long. While it was brought up in a review of defence policy during Dominic Cummings’s brief time as Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, momentum has been lost. It took several years for the government to accept that incorporating Chinese-made equipment in our broadband networks was a bad idea. This was in spite of the US warning that it would be more circumspect about intelligence sharing with Britain if our internet was vulnerable to attack.
However, this week’s events raise a wider issue about infrastructure investment. The airline industry presents a particular difficulty for the government, since mass air travel is incompatible with net zero commitments.
Its answer to the proposed new runway at Heathrow (which was first mooted in 1946) was initially to prevaricate, handing the matter to a commission led by Sir Howard Davies. Then, when the commission came down in favour of expansion in 2015, the government gave its lukewarm support. Now, it doesn’t look as if the new runway will be built.
Three years ago the courts ruled that the runway would be in breach of the government’s climate commitments made at the 2015 Paris climate…
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Nigeria has been ranked as the second most secure African country in Africa, behind Senegal. This was revealed in a report by India-based cybersecurity research firm, Indusface, as reported by TechCrunch. The West African country earned the spot after it successfully halted the Gamarue botnet- a very dangerous malware that had been a significant threat to corporate data and devices.
The cybersecurity rankings were determined using metrics like DDOS attacks, phishing and malware-hosting sites. Nigeria ranked second with an overall index of 74.69 out of 100. Senegal ranked as the continent’s most-secure country after amassing 78.09 points.
The research claims Nigeria has a low number of compromised systems per 100,000 internet users among other African nations evaluated. This yardstick acknowledges Nigeria’s successful advances to counter malware like the Gamarue botnet which primarily steals information, and performs other activities such as click fraud.
Honduras, South Korea, and Japan emerged as the top three cyber-secure nations, respectively, according to the report.
Cybersecurity in Nigeria
The Founder and President of Indusface, Venky Sundar, emphasized the need of addressing the security issues connected with remote work in the dynamic business environment. He provided individuals and organisations with six crucial pointers for boosting their cyber security in virtual office settings.
These include: determining which nations are least likely to be attacked by cybercriminals; comprehending data security laws like the GDPR; evaluating law enforcement resources; looking into government grants for cybersecurity; and analyzing cybersecurity knowledge among various age groups.
The investigation by the South San Francisco-based firm further discloses that 68% of high-growth global companies are capitalizing on hybrid work because of cost reduction, flexibility and recognition across the wider talent market. The adoption of these models by global companies is said to curb the lingering threats in preserving data privacy and network security outside the workspace.
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