Ukraine Power Outage Possibly Caused by Cyberattack
In a statement published on its website on Sunday, Ukrenergo said the outage occurred on Saturday, near midnight, at the North (Petrivtsi) substation, causing blackouts in the capital city of Kiev and the Kiev region. Ukrenergo Acting Director Vsevolod Kovalchuk said workers switched to manual mode and started restoring power after 30 minutes. Power was…
San Francisco Muni says server data not accessed in ransomware hit
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said late Monday that no data had been accessed from its servers in a ransomware attack on the Muni transit system and the agency has never considered paying the ransom asked by the attacker. The statement by the SFMTA follows reports that the alleged attacker has threatened to dump…
NSA Chief Says DNC Email Leak Was Deliberate Act
In some of the most unequivocal comments on the issue so far, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Michael Rogers this week labeled the leak of emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee in July as a deliberate action by a state actor with specific motives. Rogers, who also heads the US Cyber…