Tag: cybersecurity
Hackers took the Baltimore city government hostage!
Several of the Baltimore city services were halted after a ransomware attack hit city computers. According to the news portal Baltimore Sun, hackers infected...
Security, Quality & Agility: Maintaining a balance!
Contributed by Rajesh Laskary
Cybersecurity threats are evolving by every passing day and so the level of sophistication with which an attack can be planned,...
Instagram data breach! 49 million users’ sensitive data exposed online
Another data leak in Facebook’s timeline. This time it's the Facebook-owned photo-sharing application Instagram. An unprotected server containing personal information of millions of Instagram...
With Greg Clark stepping down, Symantec appoints interim CEO
Cybersecurity company Symantec appointed board member Richard Hill as interim Chief Executive Officer and President after Greg Clark stepped down from the company. The...
Hackers can steal your identity and bank details from a coffee...
Hackers can exploit smart home appliances like coffee machines and TVs to steal people’s sensitive information. According to Vince Steckler, Chief Executive at security...
WhatsApp draws flak from Indian government and Telegram creator Pavel Durov
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) of India has asked WhatsApp for details on the recent spyware attack, that allowed hackers to...
WhiteHat Security and Rural Sourcing join hands to remediate application security...
WhiteHat Security, an application security provider for enterprises’ businesses, recently announced its partnership with the U.S.-based IT outsourcing services provider Rural Sourcing to offer...
Cyber-attack affects over 460,000 online store accounts
The popular online stores in Japan, UNIQLO Japan and GU Japan, recently revealed that it suffered a cyber-attack that affected more than 460,000 of...
Amazon suffers ‘fraud attack’ from cybercriminals
E-Commerce giant Amazon recently suffered a fraud attack in which hackers syphoned funds from its merchant accounts over six months last year. The Seattle-based...
Cybersecurity software maker MedCrypt raises $5.3 Million
MedCrypt, a maker of cybersecurity software for medical devices, recently announced that it has raised $5.3 million in a Series A funding round led...
