Popular staffing company Randstad has suffered a ransomware attack in which threat actors stole unencrypted files from its network. In an official release, the HR agency stated that the Egregor ransomware group illicitly obtained access to the company’s global...
Security Operations (SecOps) team members have interesting stories to tell about their run-ins with cyber adversaries. Some of these professionals have built and run Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for some of the world’s largest companies. They’ve seen daily incidents...
The digital transformation of health care is driving the adoption of new technology and information systems to support key business and clinical initiatives. We are experiencing a veritable explosion in health care data, systems, and devices. Health care data...
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...
