Microsoft released the official patches for over 83 newly discovered vulnerabilities as part of its Patch Tuesday security updates, marking the first of many for 2021. The technology giant stated that the latest security updates address flaws in around...
Socialarks, a Chinese social media management company, recently suffered a massive data breach that exposed over 400GB of users’ personally identifiable information (PII).
According to the researchers from Safety Detectives, an unsecured ElasticSearch database leaked the personal data of over...
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a hot topic, there is also an increasing amount of misinformation and confusion about what it can do and the potential risks it presents. The cultural legacy of decades of literature and film has...
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks are becoming a nightmare for CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and network administrators. They are an attack vector to enterprise networks. The year 2020 saw the biggest increase in RDP attacks, targeting U.S. companies. According to...
Flooring the accelerator of a secure vehicle is still a pipedream for many automakers. And the newest to join the bandwagon of data breaches due to frivolous errors was Nissan North America, when multiple code repositories became public, after...
Earlier in December 2020, the European Medicines Agency had reported a cyberattack that was targeted towards the COVID-19 vaccination data, which was submitted to the EU drugs regulator for emergency approval. EMA stated, “A limited number of documents belonging...
Protecting sensitive information from threat actors is a concern for both individuals and organizations. Despite their continuous efforts to secure digital assets, cybercriminals are outsmarting the security perimeters to break into corporate networks. A thoughtless action of a single...
In tandem with developments in cybersecurity technology, cybercriminals have started getting more innovative with their attacking techniques. Threat actors are leveraging advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to launch Deepfake attacks.
What is a Deepfake?
Deepfakes are...
WhatsApp recently introduced an updated privacy policy, which mandates all users to share their data with its parent company Facebook. As per the ominous-sounding notification, users failing to accept the updated privacy policy will no longer be allowed to...
A group of cybersecurity researchers from Sakura Samurai accessed around 100,000 personal records and login credentials of United Nations’ (UN) employees that were exposed in a data breach. Sakura Samurai is an ethical hacking and security research group appointed...
