HOHo Ho! It’s Christmas! The holiday season is the perfect time to re-read Charles Dickens’ timeless classic, “A Christmas Carol.” To those of you who don’t know, the story revolves around an obnoxious hermit, Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises Christmas....
Jason Lim is the Founder & CEO of Cydentiq. Having 15 years of expertise in the information technology industry and identity security domain, Jason gained substantial experience in various roles including leadership, strategic advisory for identity security, service delivery,...
A coordinated effort led by German Police, with support from other global law enforcement bodies including Europol and FBI, among others, has resulted in the seizure of Safe-Inet VPN service, which was touted as the hot favorite of cybercriminals...
A recent outage of Google services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and Maps severely affected the operations of users and organizations across the globe. All customer-facing Google services that require Google OAuth access were unavailable for 47 minutes....
Facebook has been at loggerheads with Israel-based hacking company NSO since last year. It has accused the NSO of exploiting a bug in WhatsApp that wrongfully rendered them rights to surveil more than 1,400 people. NSO has since maintained...
Cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer Ledger is facing the consequences of a data leak on its website, which took place in June 2020. The company recently found that threat actors are posting the leaked data of millions of Ledger wallet customers...
Ransomware has continued to plague digital transformation since the onset of the pandemic. A recent survey from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, revealed that nearly 56% of organizations reported a ransomware attack in the last year. With reports of an extended...
Financial services organizations, banks, retailers, insurance providers, and payment application developers are seeing rapid changes in the way they do business. Attack vectors are growing in sophistication, and organizations are increasingly relying on hardware security modules (HSMs) to provide...
Despite multiple security scans, malicious applications make their way into your mobile devices. Most of these unsecured or malicious apps come with several security risks, and cybercriminals often rely on them to compromise and pilfer sensitive information from millions...
Today, cyberattacks are getting more complex, precise, and targeted than ever before. Add to this the sheer volume of security alerts and false positives; it is like finding a pin in a haystack. Naturally, the IT teams are suffering...
