The U.S. House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which is intended to improve the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the country. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced in 2017 and reintroduced in 2019,...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged five Chinese and two Malaysian hackers for their involvement in multiple computer intrusion campaigns from early 2014 until August 2020, affecting more than 100 enterprises globally. According to the DoJ notice, the...
A spate of digital technologies such as Big Data, Internet of Things, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain have energized enterprises to set audacious goals for their businesses and catapult them from the brick-and-mortar age into the digital age. Driven...
More than 100 computer systems of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in India were compromised in a suspected malware attack. The NIC is part of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and responsible for securing critical cyber...
The 2020 U.S. election is just a couple of months away and opportune threat actors are bound to make attempts of attacking the accounts of high-profile personalities for malicious gains. To avoid this nuisance, Twitter has come forward and...
Health care providers have been the primary targets of cyberattacks, with several data breaches and ransomware attacks making headlines in the last few years. Health care organizations have suffered the highest number of cyberattacks than any other sector in...
The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in consumer, enterprise, and health care organizations, and their internal vulnerabilities has created a security blind spot for cybercriminals. They can launch a Zero-day attack to compromise devices like webcams,...
Egress, a provider of human layer data security solutions, stated that several organizations suffered data breach incidents due to outbound email errors in the last year. In its research report, “2020 Outbound Email Data Breach,” Egress revealed that 93%...
Today’s exponential industrial internet of things (IIoT) growth creates a crucial need for robust cybersecurity practices and well-defined standards that provide customers with confidence that their connected devices will operate securely throughout their entire lifecycle.
By Max Wandera, Director, Product Cybersecurity...
Chinese firm Zhenhua Data Information Technology has been accused of collecting data on millions of people worldwide. The Chinese tech company has reported links with the country’s military and intelligence networks, and thus, this action could be an act...
