Amid the brewing geopolitical tensions in the U.S. and with the Presidential election being just around the corner, CISA has issued an alert for all operatives of critical infrastructure to look out for possible cyberattacks in the upcoming months....
Researchers from cybersecurity firm Appgate uncovered a new ransomware variant “Egregor” targeting organizations globally to encrypt files that hold sensitive information. The researchers stated that Egregor seems to be derived from the Sekhmet malware family. The threat group uses...
Even though COVID-19 has brought its fair share of limelight on cybersecurity, cardholder payment data continues to be far from secure. According to new research by Verizon, only one in four organizations keep cardholder payment data secure. This is...
Delivering the keynote in the Future Stream at CYBERSEC Global Forum 2020 last week, Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, said the Internet impacts many lives and offers several opportunities. It has evolved rapidly and kept...
Legacy networking and security approaches lack the automation, cloud-scale, and intrinsic security needed to connect and protect apps, data, and users across a globally distributed supply chain. Thus, there is an urgent need for converging cloud networking, cloud security,...
A survey from the Nationwide Agent Authority, a provider of diversified insurance and financial services, revealed that most of the businesses and consumers in the U.S. are not prepared to defend against evolving cyberthreats. The survey uncovered four scenarios...
From dispersing office spaces to remote working, COVID-19 forced organizations to have a holistic approach to cybersecurity. Business continuity transformed overnight to navigate through the pandemic. The industry also experienced a paradigm shift in embracing human error, addressing cyberthreats,...
Even though COVID-19 saw an unprecedented number of layoffs and budget cuts for enterprises across the world, cybersecurity remained to be one of the key areas of investments, especially for SMBs. A new report by Kaspersky titled “Investment adjustment:...
Security experts from Facebook disclosed details about a sophisticated malware campaign “SilentFade” linked to Chinese actors that targeted Facebook’s ad platform between late 2018 and February 2019. In a security conference, the researchers stated that SilentFade exploited a vulnerability...
Experts had anticipated a pandemic-like situation for long, but what they never expected was the degree of impact it would have on human life and businesses. In the months gone by, businesses scampered towards digitization through the rapid adoption...
