In the past few years, China has been notoriously known to find ways to violate users’ data privacy. However, in a step towards strengthening its stance towards individual data, China announced the first draft of the Personal Information Protection...
The popular U.S. home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a multistate investigation related to a data breach, which occurred between April 10, 2014, and September 13, 2014. The threat actors illicitly...
Google has delisted two Chinese apps – Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box – from the Play Store for leaking users’ sensitive data. An investigation from the security firm Palo Alto Networks claimed that the two apps used a...
Indian companies are expected to spend more on Information Security and Risk Management in 2021 and a chunk of that investment goes towards Cloud Security, said market research firm Gartner. In its latest forecast report, Gartner projects total Information...
Six months ago, while we toasted the turn of the decade, no one imagined the world would come to a grinding halt because of a biological virus. But it did, and it forced us to stay confined to our...
Yisrael Gross is the Co-founder, and Director of Business Development of Israel-based L7 Defense, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in API security. Entrepreneur and business development mentor, Gross is the producer of a popular tech show in Israel, "Kikar...
Cybersecurity, the protection of IT infrastructures and communication networks in cyberspace and cyber-physical systems, is becoming increasingly important, covering threat detection and security countermeasures for interconnected digital devices, from computers to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. While components of...
CISO MAG, in association with Cybereason, conducted a virtual round table discussion on “The State of Ransomware”.
The panel discussed the evolution and the new trends in ransomware attacks. Grab the snippet of the discussion below...
Since the past decade, ransomware...
Cybersecurity firm Sophos is the latest victim of a data breach that affected a small subset of its customers’ information. The exposed information included customer details like first and last names, email addresses, and phone numbers if provided. The...
Organizations in the U.S. witnessed a greater number of ransomware attacks than any other country, research from security firm BlackFog revealed. According to the research report, “The State of Ransomware in 2020,” nearly 57% of all ransomware attacks tracked...
