Tag: cybersecurity

There is a person in every organization that is the direct owner of breach protection. His or her task is to oversee and govern the process of design, build, maintain, …

After Adobe today releases its first Patch Tuesday updates for 2020, Microsoft has now also published its January security advisories warning billions of users of 49 new vulnerabilities in its …

Two years ago, digital transformations had kicked into high gear, with new processes and product development moving ahead at breakneck speed. As IT and business fast-tracked initiatives like agile and …

Billions of records were exposed through thousands of data breaches in 2019. Ransomware continues to loom large as a threat, with cybercriminals adopting ever more sophisticated approaches to attack. Regulatory …

It’s now or never to prevent your enterprise servers running vulnerable versions of Citrix application delivery, load balancing, and Gateway solutions from getting hacked by remote attackers. Why the urgency? …

January 14, 2020, is a day cybersecurity stakeholders should pay attention to, as it marks the end of Microsoft support in Windows 7. From a security perspective, both the routine …

Attention! Are you using Firefox as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux, or Mac systems? If yes, you should immediately update your free and open-source Firefox web browser …

TikTok, the 3rd most downloaded app in 2019, is under intense scrutiny over users’ privacy, censoring politically controversial content and on national-security grounds—but it’s not over yet, as the security of …

Watch out! If you have any of the below-mentioned file managers and photography apps installed on your Android phone—even if downloaded from the official Google Store store⁠—you have been hacked …

There’s a new, fun way to run a realistic incident response tabletop exercise, and it’s called Backdoors and Breaches. Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons (B&B instead of D&D), the game …

Another year, another record-breaking 12 months of cyberattacks. According to Norton, 2019 saw more than four billion records breached, impacting organizations of all sizes across all sectors — not to …

Bill Gates promised 16 years ago that the spam problem would be “solved” by 2006. As we begin the year 2020, the pandemic of unwanted advertising is not only still …

Internet-connected devices have been one of the most remarkable developments that have happened to humankind in the last decade. Although this development is a good thing, it also stipulates a …

Landry’s, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers’ payment card information. …

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new variant of the Snatch ransomware that first reboots infected Windows computers into Safe Mode and only then encrypts victims’ files to avoid antivirus detection. …

The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published in The Hacker News and created to provide insight into the details related to cybersecurity compensation. There were over 1,500 …