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The business world is completely disrupted today.  Unemployment rates are soaring. Across industries, companies are downsizing operations and putting employees on furlough or issuing pink slips. Some countries have resumed manufacturing, though on a reduced scale. The airlines have...
It is not just a double whammy! The researchers at cybersecurity firm, Cado Security, say the functionality of TNT’s cryptomining worm steals AWS credentials, which reportedly is a first of its kind. Operated by a notorious group called TeamTNT,...
The global pandemic has turned the work-life-balance upside down. Concerns about job security and workplace policies grew exponentially in recent times. According to a survey from Centrify, a provider of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, nearly 39% of...
A collaboration between cryptocurrency exchange Binance and the law enforcement authorities in Ukraine helped identify a cybercriminal group that is involved in a $42 million money laundering scheme. Ukraine’s Cyber Police identified and arrested the hacker group in June...
Security researchers discovered a misconfigured database exposing over 235 million social media profiles online. According to the security researcher Bob Diachenko, who leads cybersecurity research team at Comparitech, the leaky database contained sensitive information that was taken from publicly...
Firewalls have been in use since the late 1980s to protect networks from external threats.  However, these traditional firewalls were only designed to segment the network into a few defined zones - the outside network where nothing is trusted,...
An analysis from enterprise security firm Proofpoint highlighted that majority of airlines are exposing their customers to cyber risks, as cybercriminals are leveraging the global pandemic to deploy email frauds and phishing attacks. In a blogpost, Proofpoint revealed that...
Canva, an Australian online graphic designing platform, is a victim of a cyberattack after hackers compromised the platform to design and store malicious files into official-looking documents, which can be deployed in phishing emails to pilfer sensitive data. Canva...
Yes, it is official! Microsoft is getting ready to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) browser in a phased manner beginning November 30, 2020. In an announcement, it stated that the legacy Microsoft Edge browser and...
A research from Risk Based Security highlighted that the number of publicly reported data breaches  declined in the last five years, while the number of records exposed increased four-times more than any previously reported incident in the first six...