Protecting citizens against cyber attacks as important as fighting terrorism: GCHQ new head
The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) new director Jeremy Fleming on October 9, 2017 warned that Britain is being hit by major cyber...
Post Equifax breach, rival TransUnion ups the ante
A month after Equifax reported a massive data breach, the credit-reporting agency TransUnion hired a full slate of new cybersecurity-focused lobbyists in Washington D.C....
The Atlantic suffers phishing scam; at least 50 job seekers targeted
The Atlantic magazine recently became a victim of a massive phishing scam, in which job seekers and freelance journalists were targeted. The magazine staffers...
Deloitte hack: Iranian hackers lured firm’s employee via Facebook ‘honey trap’
It has been revealed that Iranian hackers were behind the major data breach at Deloitte, one of the ‘big four’ accountancy firms. They pulled...
Massive breach: Data of over 6,000 Indian companies affected
In one of the biggest data breaches ever reported in India, Seqrite Cyber Intelligence, a unit of BSE-listed Quick Heal Technologies, on Tuesday, October...
All 3 billion Yahoo accounts hacked in 2013 data breach, says Verizon
In December 2016, Yahoo had claimed that more than one billion accounts were compromised in the infamous 2013 breach. However, Verizon Communications that acquired...
