On this day in 2007, the Council of Europe first initiated the European Data Protection Day. A day to raise awareness about the best practices in cybersecurity, data protection, and data privacy. In the ensuing years, the U.S. Senate passed...
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) observes its annual Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2021, highlighting the state of the global data privacy landscape. This year, the NCSA is leading the Data Privacy Day 2021 as an international...
Ahead of International Data Privacy Day 2021, Acronis, a cybersecurity solutions provider, issued a warning that organizations around the globe will face even more critical data privacy and security threats in 2021. Based on the research of recent cyberattack...
Networking and hardware company Cisco asked its users to update their networking software immediately, citing critical security vulnerabilities in its products, including software-defined networking for wide-area networks (SD-WAN), Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA), and the Smart Software Manager Satellite. Cisco...
Facebook’s nearly 533 million users from over 100 countries are at risk of being targets of malicious activities. A vulnerability discovered earlier allowed a notorious threat actor to create a database of Facebook users along with their phone numbers,...
Security researchers from Check Point uncovered a critical vulnerability in TikTok’s Find Friends feature, which could have allowed threat actors to pilfer users’ phone numbers and sensitive profile information linked to their accounts. The social media app has now...
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) became aware of a security incident that affected one of its servers that is used to transfer files like credit license applications. The securities regulator stated that cybercriminals may have viewed certain...
It has become common practice for people to chase the latest technology trends. As tech becomes part of our everyday life, the lifecycle of our devices becomes smaller and smaller.
This is posing a huge issue to the sprawl of...
Cyber actors are continually evolving, changing and strengthening their attack methods but also changing their attack vectors and targets. As we’ve seen during the rise of remote work due to the pandemic, cybercriminals are about as opportunistic as they...
Researchers have uncovered a new Android malware that disguises itself as a WhatsApp message to spread across victims’ contact lists. According to Lukas Stefanko, a researcher from security firm ESET, cybercriminals are targeting unsuspecting WhatsApp users for their malicious...
