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The memory of the last data leak, which compromised information of more than 45 million mobile phone subscribers, is still fresh in the minds of Malaysian citizens and now they have been hit by a new blow. This time...
Amazon Web Services acquired Sqrrl Data Inc., a cybersecurity startup. The Massachusetts firm established in 2012 owes its origins to Unites States Intelligence Community and National Security Agency. It has earned a name for itself in the software markets...
A recent report by A.T. Kearney, a global management consulting firm, suggests that ASEAN should spend nearly $171 billion on cybersecurity by 2025, in order to safeguard the bloc’s budding digital economy. The report which was published to elaborate...
In an interview with The Guardian, UK’s National Cyber Security Centre Chief, Ciaran Martin agreed that the country has been fortunate, not to have encountered a category one (C1) cyber-attack, yet. However, he also mentioned that it was a...
The National Audit Office of Australia recently pointed out to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), that they didn’t conform to the basic cyber security requirements, during the 2016 federal elections. While spending $27.2 million for acquiring automatic ballot scanning...
With an estimated one out of eight emails that appear to come from federal government accounts actually being fraudulent, it is "totally unacceptable and a complete dereliction of duty to taxpayers" that almost half (45 percent) of federal agency...
In an interesting revelation, David Irvine, chairman of Australia’s Cyber Security Research Centre (CSRC), revealed that the country's competence to thwart cyber-breaches is ‘relatively weak and uncoordinated’. His comments were part of a submission to a parliamentary enquiry, on...
Another in the series of text related cyber-breaches has hit Apple. The ChaiOS bug hasn't found any solution yet. Being shared in the form of a link this freezes the receiver's phone and causes a frenzy in your messages...
Phone maker, Blackberry Ltd. has developed a cybersecurity software, Jarvis, for self-driving cars. Sharing the same name as the A.I. developed by Marvel’s Tony Stark, also the Iron Man, Blackberry’s Jarvis is also an advanced security software for the...
BUSINESS WIRE McAfee, cybersecurity firm,   today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named the company a Leader in the “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems” (IDPS) for the 11th time.1 The McAfee® Network Security Platform (NSP) is a complete network threat and...