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...
New York-based cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, with offices in Tel Aviv and Sydney, raised US$43 million in late-stage funding. The funding round was led by Millennium New Horizons, with participation from online trading and technology firms Unbound, LG, and...
South Africa is one of the most malware attacked countries via fake dating applications, a research from Kaspersky revealed. According to research findings, 7,734 attacks were detected on 2,548 users in 2019. The country saw a circulation of 1,486...
spiderSilk, a Dubai-based cybersecurity startup specialized in helping organizations design their cybersecurity defenses by providing offensive cyberattack simulations, raised US$500,000 in its seed funding round. The seed round was led by a UAE-based venture capital firm Global Ventures and...
The North Miami Beach Police Department was recently attacked in a ransomware campaign that encrypted files on the police computer networks. The department immediately took down the affected computers and alerted the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and the...
The FBI recently gave a security warning to private organizations in the U.S. about an ongoing hacking campaign targeting software supply chain companies. It’s said that attackers are targeting companies with a remote access trojan (RAT) malware tracked as...
Intelligence became an integral military discipline centuries ago. More recently, this practice evolved into what is called Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield, or IPB. In both military and civilian agencies, the discipline uses information collection followed by analysis to...
A software bug in Denmark’s tax service portal, TastSelv Borger, accidentally exposed 1.26 million Danish citizens CPR numbers to Google and Adobe analytics services for more than five years. The issue, which was discovered by the Danish Agency for...
