A survey on insider threats conducted by unified security and risk analytics firm Gurucul, revealed that nearly 65% of cybersecurity professionals have accessed documents that are not related to their job profiles. It also found that 40% of respondents...
A new ransomware named as Nefilim, surfaced and began spreading at the end of February 2020. As per Bleeping Computer, its code has signatures that suggest Nefilim ransomware is an upgraded version of Nemty 2.5 ransomware. Although the two...
Amid the slew of panic due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, cyberattacks on the Healthcare sector became an additional threat level and hurdle to overburdened hospitals, clinics, and research facilities. The attacks on the sector was so overwhelming that...
There have been multiple Elasticsearch database breaches, but this is unusual and one of the biggest to date. Around 5,088,635,374 records (more than five billion) were exposed after a U.K.-based security firm inadvertently exposed its “Data breach Database”, which...
With Coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across the world are restricting their employees to work from home as part of social distancing to decrease the outbreak. On the flipside, most industry experts stated that remote work increases the risks...
A recent research into the U.K. cybersecurity labor market by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) found an increase in the basic cybersecurity skills gap in most organizations in the country. The research findings are based...
With COVID-19 restricting offices and workspace to homes and impacting the cybersecurity sector at a massive scale, the world’s largest cybersecurity certification body, EC-Council, announced that it will offer an array of its certification programs and courseware free for...
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab and the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance the cybersecurity skills of the youth in Saudi Arabia.
As per the MoU, Kaspersky will support the...
The Australian Information Commissioner lodged Federal Court proceedings against the social media giant, Facebook. The Information Commissioner found Facebook guilty of data privacy breach, which was also in conjunction with a breach of the country’s Privacy Act 1988. The...
New research from AI cybersecurity firm Darktrace revealed that most security leaders are preparing for AI-powered cyberattacks. According to the research paper titled, “The Emergence Of Offensive AI,” conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Darktrace, 88% of decision...
