A survey by multinational law firm Linklaters revealed that GDPR-related data breach notifications across European countries have increased by 66%, compared to the first year of the GDPR (from May 25, 2018 to May 24, 2019). However, the U.K....
OneClass app, a Canada-based online learning platform, suffered a data breach after an unsecured Elasticsearch database exposed personal information of over 1 million students across North America. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered the leaky database sized over 27GB that...
Cybersecurity is a sophisticated art. It can truly consume the time and resources of IT teams as they work to safeguard valuable data from the growing risk of cyberattacks and data breaches. The technical nature of it, along with...
With a target reach of 44 countries, affecting nearly 135 companies and net earnings of more than $1.5 million, meet Fxmsp, the ‘Richie Rich’ of the underground market who made a fortune by selling corporate network access. This famed...
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently admitted that it paid $1.14 million to cybercriminals after suffering a ransomware attack. In an official statement, UCSF stated that attackers injected malware that encrypted databases inside the School of Medicine,...
Security researchers from Trend Micro revealed that threat actors compromised government websites of eight U.S. cities across three states through Magecart card skimming attack. The attack occurs when users make a payment on the compromised Click2Gov website.
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Security experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered a new malware dubbed “Lucifer” targeting Windows systems with cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The researchers stated that Lucifer is a new kind of self-propagating malware that tries to exploit unpatched...
CISO MAG recently hosted a Virtual Roundtable with Ajay Kumar, Director, Solutions Engineering of BeyondTrust, and Sean Gunasekera, ASEAN Cyber Security Lead, EY. The roundtable, which was moderated by Brian Pereira, Principal Editor, CISO MAG, was on the subject...
The pandemic and subsequent remote working resulted in businesses making sudden and intermittent changes to infrastructure. This is a risky proposition since security policies were often bypassed, and tools and technologies used by remote workers (shadow IT) are not...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, with a fresh indictment superseding the previous one on counts of planned conspiracy in compromising classified military and government information. The new indictment does not...
