A new report from Juniper Networks, a provider of AI-driven networks, found that the total number of IoT connections will reach 83 billion by 2024, from 35 billion connections in 2020, which represents a growth of 130% over the...
Legal organization Your Lawyers and leading newspapers like the Daily Mail and The Sun in the U.K. report that Virgin Media, faced a class-action lawsuit of £4.5billion (approximately US$5.5 billion) after exposing its customers’ private details online for almost...
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to a rise in hacking attempts, affecting cyberspace. Threat actors are distributing malware disguised as Coronavirus-related health care products to steal personal information from regular internet users. They even designed multiple websites related to...
Effectively communicating with company executives has always been a challenge for us in information security. Sometimes I felt like a complete stranger in a land where nobody spoke my language. These stressful meetings inevitably ended up in two outcomes,...
With cybercriminals taking advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic, we continue to see malware attacks, weaponized websites, and phishing attacks to trick people into opening malicious links or attachments.
Recently, a new kind of phishing campaign has been discovered that pretends...
A cybercriminal gang, named as “FIN7 APT” has been found launching a social engineering attack. According to the security firm Trustwave Spider Lab, unknown attackers posed as Best Buy officials mailed letters via postal service to the targeted victims,...
Mirai malware that turns networked devices into remotely controlled bots has relaunched itself as Mukashi malware and has been actively exploiting Zyxel network-attached storage (NAS) devices’ vulnerability reported under CVE-2020-9054. This remote code execution vulnerability, with a CVE rating...
Deception has been a defense strategy in military and intelligence programs for hundreds of years. As cybersecurity techniques mature, we continue to borrow proven methods from more traditional security industries.
By Dick Wilkinson, IT Security Officer, New Mexico Judicial Information...
COVID-19 has affected several lives and businesses globally and is steadily increasing its spread. According to the government of India, the total number of active cases of Coronavirus in the country, as of March 30, 2020, is standing at,942and...
Neustar, a global information and technology provider company, revealed that it found 168% increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in Q4 2019, compared with Q4 2018, and a 180% increase overall in 2019 compared to 2018. In its “Cyberthreats...
