Tag: cybersecurity
IIT-Madras Cyberattack Affects its Email Services, Microsoft Offers Help
IIT-Madras (IIT-M), India’s premier technical university, faced a cyberattack, which resulted in a takedown of its email services and servers. The type and extent...
Ransomware Blocks U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Supplies
A ransomware attack on a U.S. natural gas supplying facility brought its operations to a standstill for two days when the organization’s incidence response...
Mapua University Partners with Sophos to Offer Cybersecurity Courses
Mapua, a Philippines-based technology university, recently joined hands with the security firm Sophos Group to offer cybersecurity courses and training to university students. The...
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and (ISC)2 Unite Against Cybercrime
The second annual cybersecurity month in Japan kicked off in the first week of February 2019. Following this, a slew of four high profile...
GCC Countries to See Rise in State-Sponsored Cyberattacks: Experts
Cybersecurity experts stated that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will see an increase in state-sponsored cyberattacks or APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), compared to...
Toll Faces Customer Fallout After Cyberattack
Toll Group, the Australian freight delivery service provider, is struggling to restore its services completely after being hit by the recent “Mailto” ransomware attack...
Personal Information Belonging to 144,000 Canadians Breached
Several government departments in Canada have compromised the personal information of 144,000 individuals across 7,992 data breaches that occurred over the past two years,...
NSO Group Acquires Convexum to Add New Product Segment to its...
Israel’s cyber intelligence and surveillance company NSO Group recently acquired drone technology startup Convexum in a cash deal of US$60 million. Based in Tel-Aviv,...
Samsung Extends Partnership with McAfee for Data Security
Device-to-cloud cybersecurity company McAfee announced the extension of its partnership with Samsung to protect consumers’ personal data from online threats. The partnership enables Samsung...
Personal Data Protection Commission Fines Multiple Firms on Data Breaches
The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) of Singapore found seven organizations that violated the Personal Data Protection Act and has fined them a total...
