Moscow-based multinational cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab on October 25 said that it obtained suspected National Security Agency (NSA) hacking code from a personal computer in the U.S. During the review of file’s contents, a Kaspersky analyst discovered it contained...
Equifax Inc. which is still recuperating after an enormous data breach that affected 145.5 million of its customers, is yet to schedule its first quarterly results report.
Equifax generally schedules its report by mid of every month but this time,...
After shutdown of illicit dark websites such as Alphabay and Hansa in July this year, criminals are trying messaging apps to evade crackdown, a report by security researchers on October 25, 2017, revealed.
Over the past 12 months, there has...
Israel is taking measures to prevent any incident of cyber attack during next general elections. On October 24, 2017, a senior cybersecurity official said that Iran poses the greatest risk to the country’s cybersecurity.
Yigal Unna, head of technology at...
Tech giant Microsoft recently announced that it will drop a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the Department of Justice (DOJ) changed data request rules on alerting Internet users about agencies accessing their information. The lawsuit filed in April...
On October 24, 2017, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, and Bulgaria were hit by a wave of cyber attacks. Reuters reported that Ukraine’s Odessa airport and metro system in Kiev were targeted by a malware called “BadRabbit” and prompted state-run Computer...
To address cyber crimes, the Indian government is trying to protect imported power equipment. To avert cyber attacks on electricity grids, tough measures such as multiple checkpoints will be deployed to ensure that equipment imported for the domestic power...
The row between the U.S. government and Kaspersky Lab seem to have reached a culmination. Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab, has chosen to stick to his roots and origin and doesn’t plan to move the Moscow-based firm...
The government of Ghana is mulling on establishing a national cybersecurity center to safeguard the nation against cybercrime. According to the President Nana Akufo-Addo, the nation is making leaps in terms of digital addressing system, e-payments, digital financial services...
Senior Senator from Arizona John McCain on October 19 suggested that Senate Armed Services Committee chaired by him may consider issuing a subpoena to make a White House’s top cybersecurity official testify. McCain’s warning was a result of the...
