The Port Lavaca City Hall’s server was recently hit by Ryuk ransomware that apparently entered through the email system. The ransomware took down the local government’s server, the city’s billing and auto-pay systems, and disrupted other regular operations. However,...
The talk of the town, the next big thing, a revolutionary breakthrough – the 5G technology lives up to all these clichés. It captures the imagination with potential use cases capitalizing on the impressively high speed, low latency, and...
Amsterdam-California based firm Elastic partnered with Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) to provide free endpoint security services to the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential elections and congressional campaigns.
DDC is a non-partisan organization that provides low and no-cost security products and services...
Keysight Technologies, Inc., a technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, released the “Security Operations Effectiveness” survey showing that security professionals are overconfident in their tools with 50% of...
Cybersecurity experts stated that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will see an increase in state-sponsored cyberattacks or APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), compared to other criminal activities in this year. According to Simone Vernacchia, Head of Digital and Cybersecurity...
Toll Group, the Australian freight delivery service provider, is struggling to restore its services completely after being hit by the recent “Mailto” ransomware attack on its infrastructure. The incident compromised around 1,000 systems that affected local and global deliveries...
Several government departments in Canada have compromised the personal information of 144,000 individuals across 7,992 data breaches that occurred over the past two years, according to a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The Canadian government stated that...
The known cybersecurity research duo Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, from vpnMentor, discovered a data breach in the U.S.-based photo printing app, PhotoSquared. The exposed database potentially compromised personalized data of more than 100,000 PhotoSquared customers including their photos,...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the FBI recently exposed a new hacking activity that is apparently originated from North Korea. According to the Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), state-sponsored...
Ukrainian Blackout Malware operated by the state-sponsored BlackEnergy gang, first made news in December 2015, when it took down the entire power grid of the Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine. This malware specifically targets the SSH (Secure Shell) keys, which...
