In a span of five months, yet another media company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, has been a victim of a ransomware attack. The threat actors encrypted certain servers and workstations, disrupting the company’s operational networks.
The company implemented its incident response...
Computer manufacturer Acer suffered two security incidents on its servers in Taiwan and India in less than a week. Threat actor group Desorden reportedly announced that it had compromised the Indian servers of Acer, affecting the private information of millions of...
October, being the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, sees a flurry of initiatives across organizations to create awareness among employees for #BeingCyberSmart. The CISA and NCSA initiative, which kicked off in October 2003, is far more relevant and important than...
Like every year, CISA and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) are hosting the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021 in the U.S. to raise awareness on the importance of cybersecurity and alert stakeholders of the internet about multiple security...
Ethical hacking is emerging as a viable career path for IT and security professionals in 2021. The alarming rate of cyber incidents has pushed private organizations and government agencies to strengthen their defenses against malicious hackers in recent years....
Ransom payments in the form of virtual currency have been increased exponentially. As per an analysis from the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), around $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions are linked to the commonly known ransomware...
The Virtual Counter-Ransomware Initiative meeting facilitated by the White House National Security Council, to deliberate the efforts to improving national resilience, addressing the misuse of virtual currency, laundering ransom payments, disrupting the ransomware ecosystem, and prosecuting the cybercriminals, has...
The National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. is alerting government and public organizations about the risks associated with the use of wildcard Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates that is resulting in the exploitation of Application Layer Protocols Allowing Cross-Protocol...
Until recently, network and security teams could go about their business completely effectively with little requirement for anything more than a light-touch partnership. If network teams are responsible for the roads upon which business data travels, then security teams...
Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are an essential pillar of an organization’s defense, and they must account for a lot. Especially for new CISOs, this can be a daunting task. The first 90 days for a new CISO are...
