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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...
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,...