Elections hacks are now a hot fuss. The juggernaut began rolling with the United States presidential elections in 2016 which continued till the recent French elections where president Emmanuel Macron’s emails were leaked. The scenario had given nations apprehension...
Researchers at Trend Micro have recently discovered a large spam campaign in which cyber criminals use two types of ransomware alternately to force victims to pay twice or lose all their data permanently. The ransomware rotated during the campaign...
Telecommunications provider BT and the New South Wales government recently announced the opening of a new global security hub in Sydney, Australia. The new facility, which is BT’s first R&D facility outside of the UK, will help in research...
The Senate has barred the federal agencies from using products from Kaspersky Lab. The Senate voted on Monday to ban the Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab, citing concerns the company may be linked to Kremlin and Russian spy...
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...
