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Russia claims it foiled a cyber attack from a foreign spy service

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The Russian government claims to have foiled a “large-scale” cyber attack from foreign intelligence services meant to destabilize the country’s financial system.

The government’s Federal Security Service made the statement on Friday without blaming a specific country, but said the attack was meant to be carried out on Dec. 5 against a number of major Russian banks.

The hack would have also included the use of social media and SMS text messages to circulate posts claiming a crisis in Russia’s financial system. Several dozen cities in the country had been targeted, the Federal Security Service claimed, stating it had already neutralized the threat.

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From cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared – The Border Mail

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The Border Mail

From cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared
The Border Mail
And imagine that smart group of people is a government wanting to launch cyber warfare? The now well-known computer virus dubbed Stuxnet, which was in 2007 deployed jointly by the US and Israel to destroy Iranian centrifuges used to process uranium at …

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cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared – The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Sydney Morning Herald

cybercrime to cyber warfare: Australia woefully unprepared
The Sydney Morning Herald
If there was one event in 2016 that characterised Australia's total lack of preparedness against cyber attacks, it was the epic failure of the Census on August 9. The Australian Federal Police is still investigating who was responsible for the attack …

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Britain’s wartime codebreaking base could host a national cyber security college

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Plans are afoot to build the U.K.’s first National College of Cyber Security at Bletchley Park, the birthplace of the country’s wartime codebreaking efforts.

It was at Bletchley Park that Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, was built during World War II to crack the Lorenz code used by the German high command. Bletchley is also where Alan Turing developed some of his mathematical theories of computing while working on breaking the enigma code.

After the war the site fell into disrepair, but parts of it have been restored and now house the U.K.’s National Museum of Computing.

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