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World soccer’s governing body Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has come out stating that their computer systems were hacked earlier this year. This is the second major attack on the soccer federation after 2016, when Russian military intelligence...
Google recently announced key security improvements to beef up the data protection measures of Google account users. According to Jonathan Skelker, product manager at Google, the search engine giant is enhancing the account security by introducing a new step-by-step...
Mark Houpt is responsible for developing and maintaining DataBank’s security program roadmap and data center compliance programs. He has over 25 years of extensive information security and information technology experience in a wide range of industries. In an interview with Rahul...
It was recently disclosed that a group of Call of Duty (CoD) players have been a part of a cybercrime syndicate that remotely stole $3.3 million in cryptocurrency by hacking several crypto wallets. A person from Bloomington, whose identity was...
After British Airways and Cathay Pacific, European rail service, Eurostar, has joined the legion of transportation companies that have become a victim of a cyber-attack. The breach into its systems to access user accounts occurred between October 15 and 19,...
Kaspersky Lab recently announced the extension of its partnership with the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC). The Moscow-based anti-virus provider renewed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed with the SABRIC in October 2017. According to the MOU,...
The United States Department of Justice has indicted 10 Chinese intelligence officers who broke into computer systems of private companies and stole data on a turbo fan engine used in commercial jetliners from January 2010 through May 2015, according...
According to a report from a Flemish daily newspaper, a data breach compromised personal information of around 64,000 attendees of Tomorrowland’s 2014 festival. Tomorrowland is an electronic dance music festival held in Belgium every year. The De Standaard reported that...
Lucideus, a cybersecurity startup based in Delhi, India, recently raised $5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Emeritus John Chambers, the chairman of networking hardware company Cisco Systems, through his investment firm JC2 Ventures. Of...
With nearly 9.4 million accounts compromised, the recent breach of the Cathay Pacific is possibly one of the largest cyber-attacks of 2018. No major revelations have been made about the attackers. Fortunately, the affected IT systems were separate from...