Facebook has honored a 22-year-old civil engineer in India for discovering a WhatsApp bug that violated the privacy regulations. Zonel Sougaijam, who resides in Indian state Manipur, said that he discovered a bug in WhatsApp voice call that allows...
Tech Mahindra Ltd., a provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions, announced a strategic collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) to jointly research in the field of cybersecurity. Both the parties...
The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) of Singapore has fined its computer vendor Option Gift $4,000 for disclosing the personal information of 426 NSmen (National Servicemen) last year. The commission recently stated that it discovered in an investigation that...
In an unusual attempt to protect its customers from getting hacked, Komodo Platform, a cryptocurrency startup hacked itself. When it found out about a vulnerability present in its mobile wallet application named Agama, Komodo hacked it by exploiting the...
Cylus, the rail and metro cybersecurity services provider, recently raised $12 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate its business expansion. The funding round was jointly led by the company’s existing investors, Magma Venture Partners and Vertex...
Cybersecurity software firm Imperva announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Distil Networks, a Bot Management startup, to help thwart bot attacks. The California-headquartered firm develops and sells information security software for databases and web applications, on-premises,...
The hackers, who infected about 10,000 of Baltimore city government’s computers last month, have allegedly leaked government documents on Twitter. It’s believed that an unknown Twitter account, which is claimed to be owned by the hacker group, has been...
LabCorp, a medical testing company, recently suffered a massive data breach that affected around 7.7 million of its patients' data. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, LabCorp. said it discovered the breach at a...
Cybersecurity firm Balbix recently announced that it has entered into a reseller and distribution agreement with Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED) to bring AI-based cybersecurity posture transformation to Japan. Founded in 2015, Balbix is a breach controlling platform that...
Security concerns will continue to be a problem for consumers and corporations. In one of its security predictions, Gartner stated that through 2020, 95 percent of cloud security failures will be the fault of customers. “Only a small percentage...
