The latest report on data breaches revealed that a total of 4.4 million medical records were breached in 117 health data hacks in the third quarter of 2018 affecting 4,390,512 patients’ medical history, diagnoses, addresses, and financial information.
The report,...
This might be the biggest news for the people of Pakistan. Every person holding a bank account may have just become vulnerable to cyber threats, as data from almost all the banks of the nation was stolen in a...
Yasser N. Alswailem currently serves as the General Manager of Cyber Security for Saudi Telecom Group, and is responsible for establishing and maintaining the Group’s cybersecurity vision, strategy, and program to secure and enable the digital transformation journey in...
FICO, an analytics software company, recently suggested that 82 percent of the companies in India are cyber insured. The research and consultancy firm Ovum recently conducted a survey for FICO that included participation from more than 500 senior executives...
The Vietnam government has released a draft declaration on guidelines to implement a new cybersecurity law to remediate the shortcomings in Vietnam’s legal corridors and ensure a secure cyberspace. The long-awaited draft recommends social media users to abide by...
Cybersecurity firm Attila Security recently raised $2.5 million in a funding round led by the cybersecurity startup foundry DataTribe, Bull City Venture Partners (BCVP), and TEDCO’s Seed Fund. Attila stated the new proceeds will be used to expand its...
Amid the perennial arguments around the skills gap that has marred the information security space, the topic of cybersecurity education usually makes an appearance. But how big really is the dearth of infosec professionals? At present, there’s a 25...
In the third annual data breach report, Attorney General Bob Ferguson stated that around 3.4 million residents of Washington fell victim to data breaches between July 2017 and July 2018 and the number keeps rising.
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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...
