The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) stated that phishing attacks are the key source of data breaches in Australia. The OAIC recently released the quarterly statistics report on the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) occurred between July 1,...
MapleChange, a cryptocurrency exchange, recently declared that it suffered a breach that resulted in the theft of its customers’ funds. The Canada-based trading platform took to Twitter to declare the incident.
“Due to a bug, some people have managed to...
IBM recently announced the acquisition of cybersecurity company Red Hat in a cash deal of around $34 billion. The computer manufacturing giant stated the acquisition will help it to adopt cloud-related technologies and securely move all business applications to...
British Airways recently announced a second data breach that affected over 185,000 customers. In its latest statement, the company announced that its payment website was compromised, affecting customers who made reward bookings between April 21 and July 28, 2018,...
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider eSentire has acquired AI cybersecurity startup Versive, which specializes in advanced threat detection and automation with its platform. Apart from these, there has been changes made at the senior leadership levels with the...
A recent research from cybersecurity firm McAfee exposed an active phishing campaign that turns Android devices into mobile proxies. The McAfee mobile research team stated that the phishing attack was performed by sending a malicious code, named as Android/TimpDoor,...
Kaspersky: A new research from Kaspersky Lab has found that 84 percent of CISOs in North America now believe cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, with financially motivated groups being their primary concern. The findings also show a lack of influence in the boardroom, making...
In one of the biggest lawsuit settlements in the United States history, Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $50 million in restitution to settle a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2013. Altaba, formerly Yahoo, has also agreed...
Cybersecurity think tank and company creation platform Team8 recently announced that it has raised $85 million investment to create eight cybersecurity startups. The investment round was led by Walmart, Airbus, SoftBank, Moody’s, Dimension Data, Munich Re, and Scotiabank along...
Contributed by Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer, Attivo Networks
Many will advocate that the cybersecurity battle is fought at the endpoint. Completely secure these devices and the attacker will not be able to advance their attack. This belief has fueled a...
