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Mysterious Messages On Billboards At Suðurlandsbraut A Marketing Campaign
Mysterious messages could be seen on billboards at the intersection of Suðurlandsbraut and Kringlumýrbraut this morning, reports Fréttablaðið. [su_pullquote]It’s only one week until Iceland Airwaves returns to Reykjavík! Get prepared by pre-ordering our Airwaves Goodie Bag! It contains everything you need to…
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Iceland’s Internet Security Precarious
Iceland’s internet security has considerable room for improvement, RÚV reports, especially in the wake of Russia invading Ukraine. [su_pullquote]The Icelandic Easter Box! How about it? Easter is drawing closer! The beautiful celebration of resurrection and the beginning of spring! Icelanders love Easter…
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Strætó Bus System Hacked, Blackmailed, And Will Not Comply With Demands
Strætó, the capital area public transit system, recently announced that they have been the victims of a foreign-based cyber attack. [su_pullquote]Join our High Five Club at either the ‘Secret Handshake’ or ‘Elbow Five’ level, and get our monthly magazine emailed to you.…
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What Are Icelanders Talking About?
Iceland’s First Lady Eliza Reid made international headlines with a New York Times op-ed, “I’m a First Lady, and It’s an Incredibly Weird Job”, which offered her frank perspectives on what it is to hold the office. While she has been actively…
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Icelanders Have Computer Hacking Skills
The CEO of Syndis, an Icelandic network security company, believes that Icelanders have been involved in extensive computer breaches recently. Due to the high profitability of this crime, it is likely that this type of security breach will become more common in…
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Turkish Hackers DDoSing Icelandic Websites
The Turkish hacker group Anka Neferler Tim has launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against several Icelandic websites, reportedly seeking vengeance for alleged affronts to the country’s football team. As reported, the Turkish national men’s football team, who are competing…
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Iceland’s Public Broadcasting Gets DDOS’d Again
Iceland’s public broadcasting service, RÚV, fell prey to another DDOS attack last night, taking their site offline for two hours. A programming director at RÚV told reporters that they take the attack very seriously. A Direct Denial of Service attack, or DDOS,…
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Computer Security Expert Doubts Sigmundur’s Hacking Claims
“A little bit like science fiction” is how one computer security expert has described the former Prime Minister’s claims of having his computer hacked, RÚV reports. As reported, Sigmundur told attendees of the Progressive Party Central Committee that attempts had been made…
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Sigmundur Davíð Says He Has Been Hacked And Followed
Former Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson says he has had his computer broken into, and has been followed by creditors of the fallen banks. This he disclosed at a meeting of the Progressive Party Central Committee, but doubts have arisen about the…
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Vodafone Owners Made To Pay Damages
The company which owns the telecom was made to pay damages to customers whose sensitive data was exposed in a 2013 hack. MBL reports that Reykjavík District Court ruled in favour of three plaintiffs who sought damages against Fjarskipti hf, the company…
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Anonymous To Continue Anti-Whaling Attacks
The animal welfare entity within the hacktivist group Anonymous plan to continue their cyber attacks on Iceland in a bid to end whaling. Yesterday we reported that Pirate Party MP, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, had been in touch with the group and convinced them…
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Vodafone Falls Prey To Cyber Attack
The telecom Vodafone was hit with a cyber attack that disturbed net traffic for a few hours yesterday afternoon. RÚV reports that many Vodafone internet customers experienced slowed and stopped traffic due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The telecom…
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Pirate Party MP Convinced Anonymous To Stop Iceland Attacks
Pirate Party MP, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, has convinced an entity within the hacktivist group Anonymous to stop their cyberattacks on Icelandic government websites, reports DV. As reported last week, Anonymous launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in their #OpWhales campaign against Icelandic whaling which…
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WTF Is Hacking?
Ever since first the term first entered public discourse in the 1980s, the stereotypical “hacker” has generally been conceived of as a nefarious young male, permanently hunched over his computer in a dank basement, surrounded by heaps of pizza boxes and crumpled…