Aware, a supplier of biometrics software and services, recently appointed Robert A. Eckel as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Eckel will also serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Aware. Aware provides biometrics software products...
According to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report and the Verizon Insider Threat Report by American telecommunications company, Verizon, businesses are now more aware than ever of how cybercrime could impact their reputation, and their bottom line. In an industry...
Cybersecurity software company FortifyData recently announced the appointment of Bob Morrell as its new CEO and President. Bob Morrell was previously co-founder and CEO of Riskonnect. He is also a serial entrepreneur and a pioneer in risk management software.
In...
In one of the biggest class-action lawsuit settlements in the United States history, Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay US$ 117.5 million over a series of data breaches that affected its users between 2012 and 2016. The affected users...
Security researchers have issued a warning over how attackers are exploiting Google’s Calendar feature to target users with a credential-stealing attack.
Avinash Jain, a security researcher from India, explained how misconfigured settings in google services can be exploited. The researcher...
Microsoft-owned GitHub recently announced that it has acquired code analysis provider Semmle in an undisclosed amount. Based in San Francisco, Semmle develops an engineering analytics solution. It helps developers and security researchers discover potential vulnerabilities in their code.
Founded in...
Cybersecurity solutions provider Acronis recently secured US$ 147 million in an investment round led by Goldman Sachs. With the latest investment, the Singapore and Switzerland-based company reached to the valuation of over one billion dollars.
Serguei Beloussov, the founder and...
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has revealed that it discovered around 50,000 cyber frauds in the country’s Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCB) in 2018-19 fiscal.
In reply to an RTI (Right to Information) query, the RBI stated...
Cybersecurity startup Cyberinc recently announced its partnership with InfiniVAN to provide local web isolation cloud solutions in the Philippines. The alliance integrates Cyberinc's Isla Isolation Cloud with InfiniVAN to bring a fully isolated secure internet connection for the users...
By Augustin Kurian
The second quarter of 2019 saw a major swelling of DNS amplification attacks reaching a whopping 1,000 percent spike. The report titled “Nexusguard’s Q2 2019 Threat Report” points out that increasing adoption of Domain Name System...
