Former Cayey UPR student pleads guilty at the federal level for cyberbullying

A former student from the Cayey Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) pleaded guilty at the federal level to charges of cyberbullying after launching a campaign of cyberattacks directed at multiple email accounts of the institution and of at least 15 women. Iván Santell Velázquez faces a maximum sentence of five years in … Read more

Major outage at Rogers: “not a cyberattack”, says an expert

Cybersecurity expert Jacques Sauvé does not believe that a cyberattack is the cause of the major outage affecting Rogers’ cellular and Internet network. • Read also: Services inaccessible due to outage at Rogers • Read also: Breakdown at Rogers: credit and cash only at the FEQ • Read also: General outage of Rogers: the bike-sharing … Read more

hacking a car, easy as pie, according to a hacker

AFP, published on Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 1:54 p.m. “This car, it drives with the feet and the hands. And yet, it was also driven by my phone”, assures Gaël Musquet, “ethical” hacker specialist in cybersecurity in transport, on the sidelines of a championship organized in reindeer. Using a red Toyota hybrid, this 42-year-old … Read more

Hackers join forces to attack Russia’s IT infrastructure

Boston — a high official Ukrainian from cyber security argued that an army of hundreds of volunteer hackers recruited to combat Russia in cyberspace it is attacking only those it considers to be military targetsprioritizing government services such as the financial sector, the Kremlin-controlled press and trains. Victor Zhora, deputy director of the state special … Read more

Cybersecurity risks in telemedicine: medical records are sold on the Darkweb

MADRID (Portaltic/EP).- The pandemic accelerated the digitization of the health sector and the adoption of telemedicine, but there is still much concern about cybersecurity. Data such as medical records can be sold on the DarkWeb for just over a euro and used to extort money, run scams and phishing schemes, or directly steal money. The … Read more