The SolarWinds attack, discovered in December 2020, was considered one of the biggest hacks of the decade. However, little did we know that it would have tough competition, just weeks after the SolarWinds hack. We are talking about the...
Eight cybercriminals have been arrested in England and Scotland for their involvement in a series of SIM Swapping attacks by hijacking phone numbers of high-profile individuals in the U.S. The recent arrests follow the earlier detentions in Malta and...
Health care providers have become the primary targets of cybercriminals. In 2020, several data breaches and cyberattacks were reported on health care organizations globally. Cybercriminals often focus on exploiting vulnerabilities on connected medical devices to pilfer patients’ sensitive information.
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There has been a misconception about privacy that confuses many people. People tend to share seemingly related or unrelated personal information online, such as birthdays, addresses, contact details, marriage announcements, and holiday plans on social media. People are also...
Ransomware has been with us now for over 30 years. Let that sink in. Ransomware predates the modern internet as we know it and the first example was distributed on floppy disks in 1989. While the floppy disk has...
Like hardcore lovers who go the extra mile to fulfill their love-life goals, cybercriminals also try hard to accomplish their malicious operations. They always look for occasions or opportunities to take advantage of innocents. From fake dating apps to...
Alison, a popular online learning platform, announced that it has entered a publishing partnership with the CODERED, the largest cybersecurity course publisher. CODERED is part of the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (better known as EC-Council), a global cybersecurity...
According to a report from Computer Emergency and Response Team – India (CERT-In), India has recorded over 1.45 million cybersecurity incidents including breaches and hacks in the last five years. Out of this, 696,938 cybersecurity incidents took place in...
Microsoft released its monthly set of security updates as part of its February 2021 Patch Tuesday to fix over 56 security vulnerabilities affecting Windows TCP/IP implementation, including two Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-24074, CVE-2021-24094) and a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability (CVE-2021-24086). The three flaws are unique...
By now we all know that cloud technology adoption has skyrocketed and is considered the future for security solutions. Carrying this notion further, Barracuda, a provider of cloud-enabled security solutions, conducted a survey to dive deeper into understanding the...
