From Security Magazine: I have been in the cybersecurity industry for more than 20 years now. I have founded, operated, and exited several cybersecurity startups. I also advised, invested in, and even acquired a handful. Despite successful outcomes, my experience has left me perhaps a little jaded. Are we winning the battle? When I log […]
Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its life. Released in 1996, Flash was once one of the most popular ways for people to stream videos and play games online. But it was plagued with security problems and failed to […]
Threats from nation states and criminals to the health system are a growing concern. The huge logistical challenge of rolling out vaccines faces the risk of disruption to complex supply chains. And criminal ransomware poses a threat at a time when the pandemic has increased our reliance on technology. The distribution of the various coronavirus […]
A hacking campaign has gained access to private information from a number of government and industry organizations, including the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security. The cyberattacks, which were first reported this past weekend, were carried out by compromising a software platform produced by a vendor called SolarWinds. “We are aware of a […]
A new study has revealed that many IT leaders are concerned that their jobs will be replaced by AI in the next ten years. In particular, there is a strongly held belief that cybersecurity roles will eventually be entirely automated, with no need for human intervention. Following interviews with 500 UK IT decision-makers, Trend Micro […]
US cybersecurity firm FireEye says it has recently been attacked by a “highly sophisticated threat actor”, believing the hacking was state-sponsored. In a blog, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said company tools used for testing customers’ security had been stolen. “The attacker primarily sought information related to certain government customers,” he wrote. The blog did not […]
The 2020 US elections lived up to the expectations – they were vocal, temperamental, and caught the entire world’s attention. Prior to the elections, there were many rumors and speculations about the possibility of foreign powers interfering with the process via cyber means. As far as we can tell at this moment (a week after […]
Millions of hotel customers’ details could have potentially been exposed, after a software company was found to have improperly stored sensitive data. The breach was uncovered by Website Planet, which found that Prestige Software, a company responsible for a hotel reservation system used by booking.com and Expedia, had been storing years’ worth of credit card […]
Video game-maker Capcom said its computer systems were hacked earlier this week, in the latest cyber-attack to hit the games industry. The Japanese firm is behind major franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Mega Man. It said some of its internal networks had been suspended “due to unauthorised access” from outside Capcom. But […]
Spotify has issued a rolling password reset of some user accounts following the discovery of an open database containing user credentials. This week, vpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar made their findings public, in which an open Elasticsearch database was found during the firm’s web mapping project. The 72GB database contained over 380 million […]