Australian banking and financial institutions received extortion emails threatening them of possible distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against them. To avert this situation the extortioners demanded a ransom that needs to be paid in the form of Monero...
Cybersecurity firm Netwrix announced the release of its report called “2020 Data Risk & Security” that surveyed nearly 1,045 decision-makers in the security field to know about how their organizations treat sensitive and regulated data during each stage of...
Military contracting giant Raytheon and cybersecurity startup IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. have partnered to develop cyber solutions for defense of operational and information technology (OT/IT) systems. The new alliance integrates Raytheon’s managed security services with IronNet's advanced analysis and threat...
Most individuals in Canada think they’re not vulnerable to identity thefts and neglect checking credit reports that help detect fraud, a recent consumer survey conducted by Equifax revealed. The credit reporting agency advised Canadians to remain vigilant against online...
The threat landscape for governments is no longer limited to land, air and sea. This is very evident from the policy and budget restructuring that Singapore is doing, keeping in mind the country’s digital boundaries and the cyberthreats associated...
Ravinder Arora, Chief Information Security Officer, IRIS Software is an award-winning CISO, speaker and trainer. He is the winner of the TOP100 CISO Award (2014-2017), Innovative CIO Award (2017), and Info-Sec Maestros Award (2017, 2018). He also won the...
A new report from Juniper Networks, a provider of AI-driven networks, revealed that businesses in eCommerce, airline ticketing, money transfer, and banking services will lose over US$200 billion to online payment fraud in the next five years. The research...
Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro stated that it found 10% increase in ransomware detections, despite a 57% decrease in the number of new ransomware families. In its Annual Threat Report 2019, the company stated that healthcare sector remained the most targeted...
The U.S.-based railroad company, RailWorks Corporation, reported a data breach to the Office of the Attorney General of California, which has potentially compromised the confidential PII of its employees. Although the description of the data breach occurrence mentioned in...
Japanese cybersecurity company Trend Micro signed an agreement on scientific and technical cooperation with Kazakh security firm T&T Security, to support a government initiative known as the “Concept of Cyber Security” or “Kazakhstan Cyber Shield.” The new partnership is...
