A study of 60 countries reveals that Japan is in the top five most cyber-secure country. However, increasing mobile and computer ransomware attacks targeted at Japan has seen the country dropping in this ranking. But Japan has taken a...
One of the biggest reasons for gender disparity in cybersecurity was the lack of a role model. The problem here is the fact that men make up for a majority of key commenters and high-profile influencers.
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The cybersecurity space faces an acute skills shortage, which is predicted to hit 3.5 million by 2021. This skill gap may further be exacerbated by a distinct lack of female representation. One thing that many fail to understand is...
To dive deeper into the subject of lack of women representation, Kaspersky Labs and Arlington Research conducted an online survey, titled “Beyond 11%.” This was to address the stagnant representation of women of 11% in between 2013 and 2017....
For the most part, discussions around the representation of women have stayed redundant. The Global Information Security Workforce Study from (ISC)² and its Centre for Cyber Safety and Education in 2017 revealed that women only make up 11% of...
The first day of the NULLCON International Security Conference 2020 here in Goa, India (5 - 6 March), saw many young security enthusiasts, consultants, solution providers, speakers, and business leaders. Welcoming the delegates, Antriksh Shah, co-founder of NULLCON said...
After almost a year since its discovery, a critical vulnerability affecting millions of Android devices using MediaTek chips (now tracked as CVE-2020-0069) has been finally fixed by Google. The issue was first reported on the XDA forum, one of...
Virgin Media, a provider of telephone, television, and internet services in the U.K., revealed that it discovered an unsecured database that exposed the personal information of around 900,000 customers, which is 15% of the company's entire customer base. The...
Cybersecurity firm Keeper Security revealed that nearly two-thirds of global healthcare organizations suffered a cyberattack in their lifetime, while 53% were attacked within the last 12 months. Keeper, in its report “2019 Global State of Cybersecurity in Small and...
Israel-based chipmaker and connectivity firm Mellanox Technologies acquired Belfast-based network intelligence and security technology firm Titan IC to strengthen its capabilities in security and data analytics platform. As per the acquisition, the two companies will work on cyber intelligence,...
