Grammy Award nomination is a prestigious affair for its nominees and cybercriminals are using this opportunity to abuse them by spreading malware through their songs. Kaspersky researchers have found a staggering 39 percent rise in attacks which includes attempts...
In late April 2019, researchers from Cisco Talos came across a strain of ransomware that raided a web server. The entry point was a remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle WebLogic Server software discovered about a week earlier. The...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has collaborated with major cybersecurity participants in Nigeria to build a robust cybersecurity ecosystem to protect the country’s Information and Communication Infrastructure (ICT) networks. Until now, the commission initiated nationwide cybersecurity awareness campaigns to educate security...
A threat intelligence report from security firm Dragos recently uncovered “EKANS” ransomware targeting industrial control systems (ICS). Researchers said EKANS is the first kind of file-encrypting malware intended to infect the network systems that control operations in manufacturing environments.
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Ireland is among the leading EU member states when it comes to uptake and use of digital technologies (ranks 7 out of the 28 EU member states in the European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index 2019). This...
The Philippine Government stepped up its efforts to strengthen its cybersecurity landscape, in order to protect its energy sector from foreign intruders. The decision comes in the wake of concerns raised by the country’s lawmakers about the unauthorized access...
The World Health Organization (WHO.) has declared the outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). However, hackers and threat actors are taking huge advantage of the fear and panic the virus has...
For modern business, application security is an essential concern. Every company uses a variety of web, software, and mobile applications in order to serve customers and execute internal functions. Unfortunately, far too many of these applications are subject to...
With an aim to boost cybersecurity for companies and individuals in the region, the New York City recently forged a partnership with Israel-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) under the Cyber NYC initiative. The US$100 million worth...
Craig Jones, global cybersecurity operations director at Sophos, has discovered that Trello, an app used for organizing personalized to-do lists and coordinating team tasks, exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) data of its users who made their Trello boards...
