Security researchers uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign by Iranian hackers targeting IT and telecom companies in Israel with supply-chain attacks. Tracked as Siamesekitten (also known as Lyceum or Hexane), the Iranian APT group imitated HR personnel to lure unwitting...
With increased internet usage during the new normal of remote working, phishing attacks continue to challenge business security defenses. Cyberthugs often distribute malicious codes via various kinds of phishing baits, causing severe consequences to organizations’ critical digital infrastructure. A...
There are several types of ethical hackers depending on the hacker’s intent and goal. This article highlights the concepts of hacking and the different types of ethical hackers. But before that, let’s learn what ethical hacking is to understand its categories.
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Business email compromise (BEC) is a prevalent email threat to organizations and a lucrative business for hackers. BEC attacks have increased and become more sophisticated in recent times.
By Rudra Srinivas, Senior Feature Writer, CISO MAG
In a BEC attack, hackers use social...
The rising security breaches and vulnerability exploits on the Internet of Things (IoT) indicate that connected devices are never 100% secure. Security researchers from Mandiant, in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), recently discovered a critical flaw that affects...
If we were to participate in a Socrates seminar and deliberate on the importance of securing data, in unison, the response would be: Encryption, the “holy grail” for data security! Data is at the core of all businesses and...
Sometimes, misconfigured servers and unsecured databases go unnoticed until security researchers report about them. Bob Diachenko, Head of Security Research at Comparitech, recently discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server containing a terrorist watchlist of over 1.9 million records. The server was...
It seems like the famous American telco T-Mobile is cursed to suffer constant security incidents. After sustaining a data breach in February 2021, T-Mobile recently announced that it is investigating an unauthorized intrusion that could have allowed access to its...
Even if your organization doesn’t want to address it, there comes a time when every company needs to take a step back, take stock of their tech stack, and ask themselves if it’s time for a change.
By Tim Bandos,...
The theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin is based on the concept of change in characteristics of a population over successive generations. An apt example of this is that of the homoserines, where the achievements of the descendants...
