Kaspersky, in its report, revealed that India saw a decline in the number of cyberattacks in 2019. It stated that 38.8 percent of Kaspersky users in India were attacked at least once by web-based attacks in 2019, which is...
The risk to health care organizations from a third-party vendor breach is clear—through August of 2019 alone, there have been 33 breaches by a business associate/vendor totaling over 22.5 million records. That’s one breach per week attributed to a...
Microsoft has admitted to a security blunder of misconfiguring a customer service and support database that exposed 14 years of customer service and support data dating back to 2005, accessible to anyone with a web browser requiring no authentication...
Researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from security firm vpnMentor discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket on December 24, 2019, that exposed sensitive data of medical cannabis users and multiple cannabis dispensaries across the United States.
The researchers stated the...
A joint research by Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN), scholars from Birmingham and Cambridge universities stated that the U.K.’s Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) is 30 years old and needs an update, as it has jeopardized the country’s...
A duo from East London’s Dagenham district, Oluwaseun Ajayi (39 years) and Inga Irbe (49 years), both residents of Orchard Road, have been convicted for committing more than 700 bank and mobile accounts frauds. The Croydon Crown Court’s sentencing...
Japanese electronics manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric recently confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack in June 2019. The Tokyo-based firm released a notice detailing the data leak in the wake of two news stories published recently by Asahi Shimbun...
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has acquired cloud security startup Cloudvisory to advance its cloud-hosted security operations.
FireEye caters to enterprises and helps businesses thwart cyberattacks. With the addition of Cloudvisory, FireEye will provide customers a single operations platform to monitor multi-cloud...
In early January 2020, ZeroFOX’s research team, Alpha, discovered a phishing kit targeted towards PayPal customers, which had signatures of 16Shop written all over its code. Active since 2018, 16Shop is a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) phishing kit that is developed...
Kaspersky unveiled that cyberattacks in Malaysia came down in the fourth quarter of 2019.
In its security bulletin, Kaspersky stated that it detected 11,544,340 potential threats on the systems of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) participants in Malaysia, from October to...
