Hong Kong’s central banking institution – the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) – has announced the launch of an upgraded Cybersecurity Fortification Initiative 2.0 (CFI 2.0). The changes will come into effect from January 1, 2021, and further enable...
BigBasket, an India-based grocery e-commerce platform, suffered a potential data breach incident that could have exposed personal details of over two crore customers. According to cyber intelligence firm Cyble, the data breach was discovered on October 30, 2020, during...
With the increase in myriad devices and its constant use in this connected world, cybersecurity is a major concern for both users and enterprises. For many organizations, a perfect storm of increasing cloud and BYOD adoption, combined with ineffective...
Law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and Brazil seized $24 million in cryptocurrency that was procured via online fraud. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), federal authorities from both the countries participated in "Operation Egypto," a Brazilian ongoing...
A new research, “Cybersecurity Challenges in Financial Services,” from data security provider HelpSystems revealed that 65% of major financial services organizations have suffered a cyberattack in the last 12 months. The research, which surveyed 250 CISOs and CIOs globally,...
CISO MAG recently hosted a panel discussion with Michael Engle, Chief Strategy Office, 1Kosmos; Christian Adam, MD Cybersecurity Technology, BNY Mellon; and Jerry Kowalski, Deputy CISO, Jefferies LLC. The panel discussion, which was moderated by Jyoti Punjabi, Deputy Business...
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California is popularly known as the state that laid the foundation of a stringent data privacy law in the U.S. With its historic amendment of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), some infosec pundits termed it as the boldest...
Japanese game developer and publisher Capcom suffered a security incident on November 2, 2020, which impacted its operations, including email and file servers. The developer of popular game franchises like Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Mega Man,...
CYFIRMA, a Singapore-based cybersecurity firm, has released the India Threat Landscape Report 2020. The researchers at CYFIRMA have been actively observing global cyberattack trends and major state-sponsored threat actors using its cyber threat intelligence (CTI) platform, DeCYFIR. From time...
