New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently said that all credit-reporting firms should comply with the state’s cybersecurity regulations. The statement came in the wake of the massive Equifax hack that potentially compromised sensitive information for 143 million American consumers.
The...
Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information, recently announced that Singapore will allocate S$1.5 million ($1.1 million) to train incident responders and operators to tackle cyber threats. The move is a part of ASEAN Cyber Capacity Building Program (ACCP)...
In another hack by OurMine, the notorious hacker group broke into the servers of entertainment company Vevo and released approximately 3.12TB of its internal documents and video content. The group later removed the content at Vevo’s request.
Vevo confirmed the...
Yet again another set of Apple phones are rolling out and the world can’t seem to stop talking about it. But the ‘X’ takes the prize here. The flagship phone from the stables of Apple is dubbed as the...
To address the threats of hacking and breach of sensitive information, the English Football Association has decided to bolster the cybersecurity prior to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. The FA wrote to FIFA expressing its concerns about...
Nearly 8.2 billion devices are at risk, globally, from remote attack vectors like device take over and man-in-the-middle (MITM), et al. According to researchers from Armis Labs, the Bluetooth vulnerability is on all devices running iOS, Windows, Android, and...
EC-Council will be launching a fully-proctored Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT) certification at the upcoming flagship event, Hacker Halted, 2017. The new LPT (Master) certification exam is the first globally accepted, hands-on penetration testing certification exam administered in a fully...
Palo Alto researchers have discovered a vulnerability that can affect all Android devices running on any version older than Oreo. The vulnerability allows the hackers to lock the device screen, reset the PIN, wipe the data, and prevent a...
To support research and development for next generation security and mitigation tools, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) has announced awards of up to $50 million to DOE’s National Laboratories. With this initiative, the DOE aims to bolster...
In a move that may not please law enforcement agencies, Apple is looking to add security features to its upcoming operating system iOS 11 for protecting owners’ privacy. According to the security researchers and forensic analysts who have seen...
