Following a memo from state auditors alleging the use of confidential funds that led to the agency's underperformance, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of Philippines admitted to using P300 million (nearly US$6,000,000) on sensitive matters including surveillance...
The Japan Ministry of Defense recently announced that defense-related sensitive data may have been breached after the cyberattack on Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a major supplier of the country's defense and infrastructure systems. According to the Ministry, information related to...
The U.S. Department of Justice pressed charges against four Chinese nationals for hacking the Atlanta-based credit reporting agency Equifax in 2017. The four hackers, identified as Liu Lei, Wang Qian, Wu Zhiyong, and Xu Ke, are believed to be...
As modern enterprises incorporate more BYODs (Bring Your Own Devices), shadow IoT devices will become an ever-growing risk factor to enterprise network security, suggested a new research from Infoblox, a provider of cloud-managed network services. The study stressed that...
Testing, inspection, and certification services provider TUV Rheinland released its seventh annual report on Cybersecurity Trends for 2020. The report discusses several key cybersecurity trends such as attacks on smart supply chains, medical equipment and exploitation in real-time operating...
Maastricht University (UM), in a press release, revealed that it has paid a ransom of 30 bitcoins for unlocking the servers and systems compromised during a large-scale ransomware attack in December 2019.
Here's What Happened
On December 24, 2019, Maastricht University...
Security experts from Unit 42, a threat intelligence unit of Palo Alto Networks, recently discovered a Kuwait organization’s webpage used in a security exploit. The researchers stated that the webpage contained a hidden image which was observed between June...
Toll Group, Australia’s logistics giant, was targeted by a cybersecurity incident that compromised around 1,000 systems affecting local and global deliveries across the country. As per the findings of the experts from the Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC), the...
Cybersecurity firm Tripwire recently announced the results of its survey that examined how organizations and security pros are experiencing skills gap issues. The survey findings, based on the responses from 342 security professionals, revealed that 83 percent of respondents...
The social media accounts of social networking and technology giant Facebook were temporarily compromised by a hacking group named OurMine. The incident came to light after the hacking group posted on Facebook’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts, However, it...
