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,...
McAfee released its Mobile Threat Report 2020, which found that hackers are using hidden mobile apps, third-party login and counterfeit gaming videos to target consumers. Last year, hackers targeted consumers with a wide variety of methods, from backdoors to...
BAE Systems, a British multinational defense, security, and aerospace company, awarded a five-year US$188.2 million contracts to provide the U.S. Navy’s AEGIS Technical Representative (AEGIS TECHREP) organization with critical large-scale system engineering, cybersecurity solutions, and testing expertise for the AEGIS...
Device-to-cloud cybersecurity company McAfee recently entered into a definitive agreement to acquire browser isolation company Light Point Security. As per the acquisition deal, employees of Light Point Security will join McAfee.
Founded by former NSA employees, Light Point Security protects...
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Hong Kong-based air carrier Cathay Pacific guilty on various counts of data breach reported by the latter in 2018. Owing to this, Cathay Pacific has been asked to pay a data breach...
Mobile telecommunication company T-Mobile US, Inc. has revealed a security incident that compromised some of its customers’ personal information. In an official announcement, the company alerted customers about the attack against its email vendor that led to unauthorized access...
