A survey from the web application security provider Tala Security revealed that cybercriminals are exploiting security vulnerabilities in websites to launch client-side attacks like Magecart, cross-site scripting, form-jacking, and credit card skimming. The survey “Global Data at Risk –...
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. and India, South Korea now seems to have tightened its grip around the China-based social media company, TikTok. South Korean telecommunication watchdog, Korea Communications Commission (KCC), found TikTok guilty of mishandling child...
Security researchers from Kaspersky found that cybercriminals are using thousands of inactive domains to redirect users to malicious URLs. According to Kaspersky, cybercriminals kept 1,000 inactive websites for sale on auction platforms, which redirected the visitors to over 2500 malicious...
Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir kicked off today and Google announced new solutions across its smart data analytics and security portfolios, to help accelerate customers’ ability to digitally transform with cloud computing. The announcements concerning cloud security and compliance...
Three years ago, on July 14, 2017, we launched CISO MAG with a vision to report unbiased and authentic news to information security professionals working in critical sectors to help them prevent, respond to, and counter security challenges. Ever...
A recent survey from cybersecurity firm Bitdefender revealed that nearly 50% of infosec professionals admitted that their organization doesn’t have a contingency plan to handle a situation like COVID-19 or a similar. In the survey “the Indelible Impact Of...
A survey on the current state of security operations center (SOC) performance revealed that even though organizations have increased their cybersecurity budget on SOC, the overall results are not satisfactory. It is found that the average annual cybersecurity budget...
Threat intelligence firm Cyble discovered that personal records of U.S. citizens were exposed on darknet forums. The researchers stated that an unknown hacker posted an advertisement on the dark web claiming that they had stolen personal details of more...
The MGM Resorts, in February 2020, reported a data breach that affected nearly 10.6 million of its guests. The company took help of two cybersecurity firms to probe the incident and correspondingly beefed-up the security lines to avoid such...
In the last two decades, the cybersecurity landscape has evolved, but security processes and controls have failed to integrate quality outside — in view of new cyberthreats and risks. Cyberthreat intelligence is an increasingly overused terminology, confusing the industry...
