A recent survey, "Public Sector Security Research," from IBM Security revealed the results of the local and state employees’ preparedness toward dealing with cyberattacks. The study, jointly conducted by IBM and market research company Harris Poll, found that 73% of government...
According to a report from the K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center, the K-12 public school districts and education agencies across the U.S. suffered a total of 348 cyberattacks in 2019, which is three times more incidents that were disclosed in...
Smartphone manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed that a technical glitch on its U.K. website temporarily exposed the private information of around 150 customers. The issue came to light after some of its customers reported that they were able...
All roads lead to Goa, India’s tourist destination, next week, for the NULLCON 2020 Conference. NULLCON, Asia’s leading information security conference, training and exhibition platform is all set to happen on March 6 and 7, 2020 at the Taj Hotel &...
Cybersecurity firm Milton Security Group announced a new partnership with SynED to increase employment opportunities in the cybersecurity industry in California. SynED is a non-profit organization that works with educational institutions, training partners, placement agencies, and service providers to...
At the ongoing RSA Conference USA 2020 in San Francisco, ESET, an antivirus company, shed light on Kr00k vulnerability that is affecting around a billion people having Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. It is a security bug...
It seems that nearly all CISOs, regardless of whether they’re a transformational CISO or a steady-state CISO, currently are going through some kind of an uplift, transformation, or driving a major program (e.g., Zero Trust). While there are many...
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) apologized after it accidentally exposed the confidential details of around 1,600 consumers who complained against it, in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request for data. In an official notice, the regulator...
The International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)², a non-profit organization that provides training for cybersecurity professionals, announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with NTT Advanced Technology Corporation (NTT-AT) to strengthen cloud security workforce in Japan. The alliance...
Cloud security company Zscaler stated in its report “IoT Devices in the Enterprise 2020: Shadow IoT Emerges as Security Threat,” that the shift in shadow IoT emerged as a security threat to enterprises’ security posture.
As enterprises embraced mobility and...
