Zoom has now become an integral part of our lives in isolation -- for our work, education, or just to meet up with friends and have “Zoom parties.” The pandemic was a blessing in disguise for Zoom and it...
Security operations provider Arctic Wolf observed a year-over-year decrease in publicly disclosed data breaches. However, in its “2020 Security Operations Report” Arctic Wolf revealed that the number of corporate credentials with plaintext passwords on the darknet market increased by...
Security experts from BlackBerry uncovered the cyber espionage group dubbed “BAHAMUT” targeting several government officials and major industries via various disinformation campaigns. In its research “BAHAMUT: Hack-for-Hire Masters of Phishing, Fake News, and Fake Apps,” BlackBerry found that the...
A survey from cybersecurity firm NetMotion found that the majority of the remote workforce does not report system issues to their IT support team. The survey findings, based on the responses from 500 IT professionals and 500 remote workers...
Up until now, cybersecurity was often an afterthought for several organizations due to lack of mitigation measures. However, COVID-19 is accelerating digital transformation in decentralized locations. The state of security is getting better at building business resiliency, thanks to...
A research from business ISP provider Beaming revealed that the number of businesses in the U.K. that are affected by cyberattacks has increased after the country went into lockdown. The organizations suffered over 177,000 targeted attacks between April and...
Organizations around the globe are investing heavily in the cybersecurity quotient of its IT infrastructure to protect their critical assets. Arguably, with the unprecedented shift towards digitization and cloud technologies, data in any form is now considered “the new...
A survey from cybersecurity firm Netwrix revealed that most educational institutions have become increasingly concerned about cyberattacks after the transition to online learning due to the pandemic. The survey “2020 Cyber Threats Report” sheds light on how the outbreak...
Since the onset of the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) for the U.S. starting October 1, on the theme “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart,” there has been a renewed interest in the space, thanks to the efforts by the Cybersecurity...
EC-Council is conducting its 2020 Global CISO Forum virtual event, October 5 – 7. The Global CISO Forum (GCF) is an annual event that sees a confluence of the highest-level executives from across industries and countries who discuss the...
