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The cybercriminal group OurMine hacked 15 Twitter accounts of the U.S. National Football League (NFL) teams including NFL’s handle and posted a message, “Hi, we’re back. We are here to show people that everything is hackable.” Exact details of the...
Most companies rely on e-mail as the primary means of communication even when it comes to sharing classified information like customer account numbers, employee credentials, and confidential negotiations. A new report from the security firm, Tessian revealed that large organizations inadvertently...
Most of the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in the U.K. are concerned about potential cyberattacks on their organizations, ZDNet reported. According to a report from PwC, nearly 48.4 percent of the U.K.’s CEOs deleted their social media accounts and...
Sai Krishna Kothapalli, a security expert and founder of cybersecurity startup Hackrew, claimed that he found 3,202 Indian government email IDs and their passwords leaked on the dark web across multiple databases. According to Kothapalli, the exposed email accounts belong...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Sydney faced a sudden increase in API errors and corresponding latencies. These affected seven dependent services of AWS including Appstream 2.0, Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), ElastiCache, Relational Database Service (RDS),...
It can be argued that industrial facilities have taken to digital transformation much earlier than other enterprises. While it's only now that some businesses are committing to adopting digital tools, factories have been using robots and programmable logic controllers...
Security pros from threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory revealed that hackers kept payment card details of Wawa’s customers on “Joker's Stash” a dark web marketplace for trading stolen cards data. Researchers stated that hackers advertised the stolen card data...
According to the U.K.’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS), the number of active cybersecurity firms in the country increased by 44 percent,  up from 846 firms in 2017 to over 1,200 in 2019, indicating a growth...
The Philippines, for the second time in a row, has been crowned number one in South-East Asia (SEA) and ranked seventh globally, in terms of the most attacked country by cyberthreats. An independent research by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky stated that...
Japan is gearing up for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer,  however, the website for Olympics and Paralympic Games might be vulnerable to cyberthreats, such as ransomware, fake entry passes, and leaks of personal information.  Owing...