A survey from cloud security provider Trend Micro revealed that 23% of organizations globally suffered seven or more cyberattacks. Nearly 83% of organizations surveyed stated that most of the potential attacks are "somewhat" to "very" likely to be successful...
The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) warned its brokerage firms about an ongoing phishing campaign targeting users to steal personal information. In a security alert, FINRA stated that malicious actors are sending fraudulent emails to users with a...
In a cloud storage security lapse, NTreatment exposed around 109,000 files that contained health records and lab results.
The said cloud server was hosted on Microsoft Azure.
NTreatment, a U.S.-based health tech company, experienced a security lapse on one of its...
The New Zealand government introduced the New Privacy Act 2020 (NZ), on December 1, 2020, which brings several reforms in the way organizations collect, use, and manage users’ data. The new legislation will replace the existing Privacy Act 1993...
AI and ML present a new dawn in the cybersecurity industry. AI is not a new concept to computing. It was defined in 1956 as the ability of computers to perform tasks that were characteristic of human intelligence. Such...
123RF.com, a royalty-free image website, has notified its users and authorities of a compromised SQL database that contained users’ sensitive data. A report by CyberNews indicated that, unidentified malicious actors leaked a sample file, 3GB in size, on a...
According to Reuters, suspected North Korean threat actors have carried out targeted cyberattacks against COVID vaccine frontrunner, AstraZeneca, by means of phishing links disguised as job offers.
The race to finding a vaccine for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is heating...
Your online security is highly dependent on your password habits. Using a strong password or passphrase will provide maximum security to your network and the devices you use. To prevent users from using weak passwords, Google Chrome has introduced...
The FBI is warning organizations in the U.S. about the risks posed by email auto-forwarding rules. According to a Private Industry Notification (PIN) from the FBI's Cyber Division, threat actors are exploiting auto-forwarding rules on victims’ web-based email accounts...
Last Wednesday (November 25), as people across the world began preparing for a very different 2020 Thanksgiving, a large part of the internet experienced an outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced early Wednesday morning that several of their key...
