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 […]
Companies often separate cybersecurity and data protection by forming two independent teams and buying different software to address each of these issues apart. Maintaining and managing two teams, together with two software sets, involves high IT costs and administrative expenses. Why do companies separate cybersecurity and data protection? To answer this question, let’s take a […]
The huge global shortfall in cybersecurity professionals has dropped for the first time since records began, thanks to more joining the industry and pandemic-related uncertainties on the demand side, according to (ISC)2. The non-profit certifications organization interviewed 3790 industry respondents around the world to better understand the current challenges facing the sector. Its 2020 Cybersecurity […]