hackers

Retail Asia15/07/2021

Instagram is taking a powerful new step to combat account hacking and malicious activity on their social media platform. If you yourself haven’t experienced your Instagram account getting compromised, you probably know at least a couple of friends who have. It’s a fairly widespread phenomenon, as unpleasant as it may sound, and it’s about time […]

Retail Asia10/06/2021

Meatpacker JBS USA paid the equivalent of $11 million ransom in a cyberattack that disrupted its North American and Australian operations, the company’s CEO has said in a statement. The subsidiary of Brazilian firm JBS SA halted cattle slaughtering at all of its US plants for a day last week in response to the cyberattack, […]

Retail Asia15/02/2021

More than 100 financial firms were victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks by the same threat actor with North America and Europe overwhelmingly making up the dominant share, according to a recent report. Cyber intelligence sharing group FS-ISAC said that over 100 financial services firms were targets of a wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – a method of […]

Retail Asia23/08/2019

Apple is giving out special versions of the iPhone to security researchers who have the opportunity to collect as much as $1.5 million from Apple. Announced last week at the Black Rock cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas (where ironically Apple earlier this year put up a billboard reading “What happens on your iPhone stays on your […]

Retail Asia27/12/2017

On 11 November 2017, Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales hit a new record high with a 39% increase from last year’s sales. The company’s 2017 profits broke world records of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, marking this Asian sales day as one of the highest revenue sales in history. With increasing internet-user penetration, consumer behavior is […]

Retail Asia09/05/2016

A group of Indonesian “cyber warriors” sit glued to screens, as they send out messages promoting a moderate form of Islam in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country. Armed with laptops and smartphones, some 500 members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) – one of the world’s biggest Muslim organisations – are seeking to counter the […]

Retail Asia25/09/2015

Many small and midsized retailers assume hackers won’t bother with them. But criminals have figured out small companies are easier to penetrate, and go after them frequently, warns a security expert. In spite of high-profile hacks such as against eBay, many Internet retailers still do not believe that they are at risk or have been […]

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Instagram introduces new security feature against hackers

JBS Foods paid hackers US$11 million to end ransomware attack

Over 100 Financial Firms Hit by DDoS Attacks

Apple is giving out a special iPhone that can lead to a $1 million reward

Stop DDoS from ruining your retail Brand’s sales momentum

Indonesia’s Muslim cyber warriors take on IS

Hackers target online retailers, and not just the big ones