Finastra, a fintech firm that provides technology solutions to banks globally, announced that it shut down its key systems due to a security breach discovered on March 20, 2020. In an official notice to its customers, the London-based company...
The number and purpose of connected devices is rapidly increasing as IoT evolves beyond the state of limited applications, a latest research revealed. According to the research report named, “The Connected Device Market for Consumer, Enterprise, and Industrial IoT...
The global pandemic of COVID-19 will continue to have a massive impact on cyberspace. In fact, the damages caused by cybercrime is poised to double amid the Coronavirus outbreak. According to the Official Cybercrime Report published by Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime will cost...
Precautionary measures to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak led to swift change in the work life of the businesses and people globally. Social distancing resulted in an increase in remote working across all business units. Amidst this pandemic phase,...
Most healthcare organizations in the U.S. are running their medical devices on outdated software and operating systems, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks. According to a research from Atlas VPN, 83% of healthcare providers in the U.S. are running on...
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...
