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With more than 200 million active Office 365 users in FY20Q1 (now nearing 258 million) and the corresponding urge to up the security features, Microsoft has now introduced a ‘stop auto-forwarding emails’ configuration. It helps enterprises disable Office 365’s...
India-based online learning platform Unacademy suffered a data breach that exposed details of 22 million users, cybersecurity firm Cyble revealed. It was also found that the unknown hackers kept 21,909,707 user records for sale at $2,000 on darknet forums....
Three-quarters of millennials in America use the same password for more than ten different devices, apps, and other social media accounts, according to a study by Clario and OnePoll. The survey revealed certain alarming statistics about the password practices followed by Americans. Most of...
The industrious and criminal-minded threat actors behind the majority of cyberattacks have reinvented their attack approaches during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Since the advent of the outbreak, cybercriminals are developing new phishing tools, hacking strategies, and exploring different attack...
Is cloud the ultimate data storage solution? That remains a hot and widely debated topic. Every day more and more organizations are unplugging their data centers and are moving to the cloud. As for most organizations, cloud migration is...
Threat actors tried to hack nearly one million WordPress sites in the last week, according to a security alert issued by cybersecurity firm Wordfence. The threat intelligence team at Wordfence stated that hackers launched attacks from 24,000 different IP...
IT organizations around the world have been forced to make it possible for millions of previously in-office workers to become remote employees, often with no more than a day or two to prepare. Ensuring that everyone has the tools...
Only 51% of security leaders and professionals are confident that their cybersecurity teams are ready to detect and respond to cyberattacks during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new research by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). Only 59% said...
The average enterprise ransom payments increased 33% ($111,605) in Q1 of 2020 from Q4 of 2019, according to the Coveware Ransomware Marketplace Research report. The research revealed that ransomware operators succeeded in targeting large organizations and forcing ransom payments. It...
The research team at Safety Detectives has discovered a data leak, which potentially exposed over 10 billion records of an Ireland-based adult live-streaming website CAM4.com. The exposed database exceeded 7TB (terabytes) of information including its production logs. The researchers...