Breaches in US Financial Service Organizations
As per the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, forty two percent of U.S. financial services organizations got affected by data breach. Survey saw participation of 1,100 senior security executives...
View ArticleFunding for Averon
San Francisco-based company Averon recently secured $8.3 million in an Avalon Ventures-led Series A round of funding. The firm is a mobile authentication startup. Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA)...
View ArticleDHS and FBI warns of APTs Targeting
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have recently mentioned in a statement that an advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign is specifically...
View ArticleBad Rabbit Ransomware
The United State Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning against a campaign called Bad Rabbit which seams to be a variant of the Petya ransomware. ”US-CERT discourages...
View ArticleDeception Technology
Symantec’s endpoint security product suite has latest update which uses deception technology to keep devices secured. Deception technology is first step towards this efforts in the industry. It...
View ArticleGhostwriter AWS Issue
Skyhigh Networks researchers is warning about “GhostWriter,”. This entity misconfigures Amazon S3 buckets to allow public write access for a malicious third party to launch man-in-the-middle (MiTM)...
View ArticleKaspersky Lab Survey
A recent survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab of 5,274 IT business decision makers found that 42 percent are not sure of the most effective strategy to combat targeted attacks. Sixty three percent among...
View ArticleGDPR
HyTrust conducted survey of 323 attendees at the VMworld 2017 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. It found that only 21 percent are concerned about GDPR compliance regulations and plan to implement it....
View ArticleManaging Privileged Passwords
Recent survey conducted by One Identity of 913 IT security pros shows that 86 percent of IT security professionals face challenges managing privileged passwords. As per the One Identity website – “We...
View ArticleGovernment of Canada Plans to Set CyberSecurity Policy
The growing trend of attacks is worrying every corner of the world. Like other parts, Canadians are also at risk from cyber attack. The Government of Canada plans to fight this battle. They are...
View ArticleDevice Theft Incidents
Brevard Physician Associates Brevard Physician Associates mentioned that it was burglarized which possibly affected health data for 7,976 patients. The incident came to notice when the company saw...
View ArticleRansomware Attack and Phony Websites
ECKAAA East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA) mentioned that they were affected by the ransomware attack.The incident left files encrypted and inaccessible to the company. Cybersecurity...
View ArticleRussian Cyber Security Threat
Ciaran Martin, CEO of the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) mentioned that hostile states present a significant cyber threat to the country’s critical infrastructure security. “I can confirm...
View ArticleUber Breach
Uber mentioned that it had covered up a massive data breach of 57 million customers’ and 600,000 drivers’ information in late 2016 by shelling out the hackers a $100,000 ransom. Uber CEO Dara...
View ArticleDDoS Attack
DDoS attack attempts on organizations was 237 per month or eight attack attempts a day in third quarter of 2017. “The growing availability of DDoS-for-hire services is causing an explosion of attacks,...
View ArticleIoT Security
Healthcare organizations are now implementing connected medical devices for better services to patients. But healthcare technology leaders are worried about IoT security with connected devices....
View ArticleDeception Technology
Symantec’s endpoint security product suite has latest update which uses deception technology to keep devices secured. Deception technology is first step towards this efforts in the industry. It...
View ArticleData Breach at Forever 21
Retailer Forever 21 recently suffered data breach. Affected information includes credit and debit card information at some Forever 21 locations. Third party notified the company about the breach. “We...
View ArticleRansomware Attack and Phony Websites
ECKAAA East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA) mentioned that they were affected by the ransomware attack.The incident left files encrypted and inaccessible to the company. Cybersecurity...
View ArticleIoT Security
Healthcare organizations are now implementing connected medical devices for better services to patients. But healthcare technology leaders are worried about IoT security with connected devices....
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