Google recently announced that it’s going to spend US$1 million to bring awareness on data privacy and internet security across the sub-Saharan Africa region. The search engine giant also launched its child online safety program “Be Internet Awesome” in...
Israel’s cyber intelligence and surveillance company NSO Group recently acquired drone technology startup Convexum in a cash deal of US$60 million. Based in Tel-Aviv, Convexum develops counter-drone technologies to combat malicious drones and land them safely. Founded by IDF...
Device-to-cloud cybersecurity company McAfee announced the extension of its partnership with Samsung to protect consumers’ personal data from online threats. The partnership enables Samsung smartphones to come up with pre-installed anti-malware protection powered by McAfee. In addition, the alliance...
It’s common knowledge that new cryptocurrency units come into existence through mining, a process of complex computation relying on CPU or GPU power. Unfortunately, this routine isn’t always done in an ethical way. Cybercriminals have masterminded numerous techniques to...
A study by Queen Mary University of London’s Cloud Legal Project has stated that the cybersecurity strategies for air transport set by the NIS Directive of European Union might be ineffective against cyber risks and do not go far...
Cybersecurity firm Group-IB recently detected a database containing over 460,000 payment card records of Indian banks on the darknet for sale. The database, named “INDIA-BIG-MIX (full name: INDIA-BIG-MIX (FRESH SNIFFED CVV) INDIA/EU/WORLD MIX, HIGH VALID 80-85%, uploaded 2020-02-05...
A simple yet critical coding flaw in Israel’s current ruling party’s election management application – Electoral, has exposed an entire Israeli voter database of 6,453,255 citizens. Ran Bar-Zik, a front-end developer of Verizon Media, was first tipped-off about this...
The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) of Singapore found seven organizations that violated the Personal Data Protection Act and has fined them a total of S$66,000 (approximately US$47,514). According to an official release, the penalties were issued to Singtel, SCAL...
A new federal legislation was introduced recently to address cybersecurity threats to information systems of state, local, and territorial governments in the U.S. The legislation, “the State and Local Cybersecurity Improvement Act”, will create a grant program worth US$400...
According to The Washington Post and German broadcaster ZDF, encryption device provider Crypto AG has been deemed as “The Swiss Spying Machine”, since for half a century it sold technology to nearly 120 countries while it was secretly controlled...
