Tag: Cybercriminals
Why Insider Threat Presents a Big Risk to Financial Services Organizations
In today’s highly regulated environment, financial services organizations are trusted with far more than just money; they are also responsible for keeping customers’ highly...
5G Security: Possible Risks and Challenges
5G is taking the world by storm. This game-changing technology takes mobile connectivity to a whole new level by introducing jaw-dropping speeds and low...
55% Consumers Believe Companies are not Doing Enough to Protect Their...
Data breaches are unfortunate events for any business. Apart from financial damage and heavy fines, data breaches also cause a severe impact on employees’...
Hackers Target Loyalty Programs to Obtain Users’ Sensitive Data
A new research from security solutions provider Akamai revealed that cybercriminals launched credential stuffing campaign to target loyalty programs. Attackers took advantage of the...
Lapse in Security! Pfizers Inadvertently Exposes PII of U.S. Prescription Drug...
Global pharmaceutical company Pfizer inadvertently exposed Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of hundreds of prescription drug users in the U.S. after its misconfigured Google Cloud...
Hacking Alert! Footage of 50,000 Singaporean Homes Lands on the Internet
After a long tiring day at work, home is the place you want to be. It is our private and secure space, and we...
How COVID-19 Impacted IT-OT Security
According to a research from security firm Claroty, most of the industrial enterprises suffer an increase in cyberattacks since the pandemic began. The study,...
Protect the Connected! Will IoT Ever be 100% Secure?
The National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) for the U.S., which started on October 1, continues to raise awareness on the significance of cybersecurity in...
Paying Ransom is Now Illegal! U.S. Dept of Treasury Warns
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that paying ransom to cybercriminals is now illegal. In an official...
4.83 Mn DDoS Attacks Reported Globally in H1 2020
Organizations globally encountered over 4.83 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2020. According to a research from Netsount, cybercriminals attacked...
