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...
A research expert from the security firm Zimperium recently pointed several vulnerabilities in a number of IoT (Internet of Things) operating systems, including FreeRTOS from AWS. Ori Karliner, the researcher from zLabs, came across 13 flaws in the FreeRTOS...
The United States government’s health insurance system HealthCare.gov recently suffered a data breach that resulted in the theft of thousands of patients’ records.
According to the official statement, unknown attackers breached the government portal’s sign-up system named Federally Facilitated Exchanges...
