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Remote working security challenges urge MFA implementation

14th July 2020

A hacker is selling details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web

14th July 2020

Zero-Trust Efforts Rise with the Tide of Remote Working

13th July 2020

Over 1,300 phishing kits for sale on hacker forum

10th July 2020

Amazon tells employees to remove TikTok from their phones due to security risk

10th July 2020

Backdoor accounts discovered in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data

10th July 2020

USB storage devices: Convenient security nightmares

10th July 2020

15 billion credentials from 100,000 data breaches sold on dark web

9th July 2020

Majority of firms concerned about public cloud security, most have suffered breach

9th July 2020

70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year

9th July 2020

Citrix Issues Critical Patches for 11 New Flaws Affecting Multiple Products

8th July 2020

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven’t got that the wrong way round

8th July 2020

Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service

7th July 2020

Coronavirus: Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan

6th July 2020

Infosec community disagrees with changing ‘black hat’ term due to racial stereotyping

4th July 2020

F5 patches vulnerability that received a CVSS 10 severity score

3rd July 2020

Critical Apache Guacamole Flaws Put Remote Desktops at Risk of Hacking

2nd July 2020

VMware is acquiring Datrium for hybrid cloud disaster recovery

2nd July 2020

Microsoft releases emergency security update to fix two bugs in Windows codecs

1st July 2020

Critical flaw opens Palo Alto Networks firewalls and VPN appliances to attack, patch ASAP!

30th June 2020

Files Stolen from 945 Websites Discovered on Dark Web

29th June 2020

SOC team members battle with burnout, overload and chaos

26th June 2020

Most malware in Q1 2020 was delivered via encrypted HTTPS connections

25th June 2020

Containers to capture 15 percent of all enterprise apps across 75 percent of business by 2024

25th June 2020

Ransomware perspectives: The shape of things to come

24th June 2020

Cloud Threats and Priorities as We Head Into the Second Half of 2020

22nd June 2020

Companies are rethinking their approach to privacy management

22nd June 2020

Australian government to build AU$4.3 million online microcredentials marketplace

22nd June 2020

Adobe wants users to uninstall Flash Player by the end of the year

20th June 2020

How much is your data worth on the dark web?

19th June 2020

Companies still struggle with SOC staff shortages, security skills gap

17th June 2020

New Ripple20 Flaws Put Billions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk of Hacking

16th June 2020

Zero-day flaws in widespread TCP/IP library open millions of IoT devices to remote attack

16th June 2020

As IoT devices evolve, risk management needs improvement

16th June 2020

New Mobile Internet Protocol Vulnerabilities Let Hackers Target 4G/5G Users

15th June 2020

Philippines government makes cloud-first a post-pandemic ‘new normal’ for all agencies

15th June 2020

Spies Can Listen to Your Conversations by Watching a Light Bulb in the Room

13th June 2020

What is the true extent of the modern corporate digital attack surface?

12th June 2020

Average cost of DNS attacks hovering around $924,000

11th June 2020

Intel CPUs Vulnerable to New ‘SGAxe’ and ‘CrossTalk’ Side-Channel Attacks

10th June 2020

SMBleed: A New Critical Vulnerability Affects Windows SMB Protocol

9th June 2020

Another globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding

9th June 2020

Wipro and IBM collaborate to assist customers embark on a secure hybrid cloud journey

9th June 2020

Five signs a virtual CISO makes sense for your organization

8th June 2020

Hackers using malicious CV files to infect PCs with banking trojan

5th June 2020

New ‘Tycoon’ Ransomware Strain Targets Windows, Linux

4th June 2020

Cisco’s warning: Critical flaw in IOS routers allows ‘complete system compromise’

4th June 2020

Cybercriminals exposed 5 billion records in 2019, costing U.S. organizations over $1.2 trillion

4th June 2020

Cloud computing: Google signs ‘milestone’ discount deal with UK government

3rd June 2020

Blackpoint Cyber launches 365 Defense, a Microsoft 365 security add-on for its MDR service

1st June 2020

Microsoft ‘to replace journalists with robots’

30th May 2020

Famous video apps with 157M+ installations operating as spyware

29th May 2020

Minted confirms data breach as Shiny Hunters sell its database

29th May 2020

Hackers breached six Cisco servers through SaltStack Salt vulnerabilities

29th May 2020

Malaysia’s Axiata to pick two 5G vendors, in move that could curb reliance on Huawei

27th May 2020

Maintaining the SOC in the age of limited resources

27th May 2020

IBM’s sacking spree reaches Australia and as staff wait to exit they’re being offered $4k to find new workers

27th May 2020

Amazon in advanced talks to buy self-driving startup Zoox: WSJ

27th May 2020

Exclusive: Hacker selling 500 million Facebook user data from 82 countries

26th May 2020

Tencent to invest $70 billion in ‘new infrastructure’

26th May 2020

So how are your remote working tools shaping up?

26th May 2020

IoT security: In 2020, action needs to match awareness

26th May 2020

Thousands of enterprise systems infected by new Blue Mockingbird malware gang

25th May 2020

6 million COVIDSafe downloads and a AU$60b JobKeeper data error

25th May 2020

Nutanix and ServiceNow expand integration to help customers streamline their IT operations and costs

25th May 2020

Personal data of 12 million Facebook users exposed online

22nd May 2020

25 million user records leak online from popular math app Mathway | ZDNet

22nd May 2020

Windows malware opens RDP ports on PCs for future remote access

22nd May 2020

Privilege escalation vulnerability patched in Docker Desktop for Windows

22nd May 2020

IBM making big job cuts – even to Watson and AI – as it ‘pivots’ to cloud

22nd May 2020

HPE’s Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan

22nd May 2020

Hackers Serve Up Stolen Credentials from Home Chef

21st May 2020

Is Zero Trust the Best Answer to the COVID-19 Lockdown?

20th May 2020

New DNS Vulnerability Lets Attackers Launch Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

20th May 2020

db8151dd breach- Contact management firm leaks 22 million emails

18th May 2020

Inside big tech’s high-stakes race for quantum supremacy

18th May 2020

Security threats associated with shadow IT

18th May 2020

Supercomputers hacked across Europe to mine cryptocurrency

16th May 2020

Facebook buys GIF-maker Giphy to add to Instagram team

15th May 2020

Mikroceen RAT backdoors Asian government networks in new attack wave

15th May 2020

Hackers target the air-gapped networks of the Taiwanese and Philippine military

15th May 2020

Microsoft Patch for Reverse RDP Flaw Leaves Room for Other Attacks

14th May 2020

Two Critical vulnerabilities in Sophos Cyberoam firewall can allow network takeover

14th May 2020

New malware Ramsay can steal data from air-gapped computers

14th May 2020

Researcher Spots New Malware Claimed to be ‘Tailored for Air‑Gapped Networks’

13th May 2020

Data Breach Exposes Four Million Dating App Users

11th May 2020

Researchers detected 400 million malware infections in April 2020

10th May 2020

Hackers infect authentic 2FA app to infect Mac devices with malware

10th May 2020

US Marshals Service exposed prisoner details in security breach

9th May 2020

Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021 and it’s not alone

8th May 2020

Hacker gains access to a small number of Microsoft’s private GitHub repos

8th May 2020

Jump in vulnerable RDP ports is leaving networks open to hacking and cyberattacks

7th May 2020

Facebook Launches ‘Discover,’ A Secure Proxy to Browse the Internet for Free

6th May 2020

Sensitive user data found in Tesla car parts sold on eBay

6th May 2020

Warning: Citrix ShareFile Flaw Could Let Attackers Steal Corporate Secrets

5th May 2020

New Kaiji malware targets IoT devices via SSH brute-force attacks

5th May 2020

Hacker leaks 15 million records from Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest online store

2nd May 2020

As Brit cyber-spies drop ‘whitelist’ and ‘blacklist’, tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother

2nd May 2020

Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines

1st May 2020

New nasty Android EventBot malware infects devices by evading 2FA

30th April 2020

Here’s the NSA’s guide for choosing a safe text chat and video conferencing service

30th April 2020

New Android Malware Steals Banking Passwords, Private Data and Keystrokes

30th April 2020

Microsoft Office 365: US issues security alert over rushed remote deployments

30th April 2020

Organizations look to build resiliency with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures

30th April 2020

Android users worldwide hit by sophisticated Google Play malware

29th April 2020

Researchers Spot Banking Trojan Using #COVID19 Crisis to Attack Users

28th April 2020

Ransomware hackers leak pharmaceutical giant’s data on dark web

28th April 2020

Chinese COVID-19 detection firm hacked; source code sold on dark web

27th April 2020

Dark web hackers selling 400,000 South Korean & US payment card data

25th April 2020

VictoryGate cryptominer infected 35,000 devices via USB drives

25th April 2020

Wake up, Neo: Microsoft mulls using your brain waves or body heat to mine crypto-currency while viewing ads

25th April 2020

Symlink race bugs discovered in 28 antivirus products

24th April 2020

Latest iOS Text Bomb Bug Crashing iPhones with Sindhi Characters

24th April 2020

Post-lockdown life in Wuhan is a warning to the world

24th April 2020

Work-from-home creates multitude of opportunities for leaks

24th April 2020

Parablu launches BluVault, a SaaS backup solution for Microsoft Office 365

24th April 2020

Google shifting workloads to run when the sun will shine and the wind will blow

23rd April 2020

Security researcher identifies new APT group mentioned in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak

22nd April 2020

Zero-Day Warning: It’s Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails

22nd April 2020

Google Cloud’s Anthos for AWS generally available, Microsoft Azure in preview

22nd April 2020

Chinese Hackers Using New iPhone Hack to Spy On Uyghur Muslims

22nd April 2020

Has coronavirus killed the UK’s startup dreams? Ask Deliveroo

22nd April 2020

Netflix says subscriptions just boomed but tells investors it’s no money heist and they should expect stranger things

22nd April 2020

Python 2 bows out after epic transition. And there was much applause because you’ve all moved to version 3, right? Uh, right?

22nd April 2020

Google helps users reduce Google Cloud costs

21st April 2020

Researcher Discloses 4 Zero-Day Bugs in IBM’s Enterprise Security Software

21st April 2020

IBM CEO Krishna outlines grand plan: Technical prowess, growth, client focus

21st April 2020

Three years ago, IBM ordered staff to work in central hubs. Now its new CEO ponders mid-pandemic: Is there a better way of doing things?

21st April 2020

IBM misses revenue estimates but cloud jumps; withdraws forecast

20th April 2020

Hackers selling 267 million Facebook records on hacker forum

19th April 2020

Fraud & hacking guides are the most sold item on dark web

18th April 2020

Google calls a halt on Chrome 82, but the version 83 beta has arrived early – so it’s coding and bug finding time ahead

18th April 2020

PoetRAT Trojan targets energy sector using coronavirus lures

17th April 2020

Google: We Block 240 Million Daily #COVID19 Spam Messages

17th April 2020

Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations

17th April 2020

Bad news: So much of your personal data has been hacked that lesson manuals on how to use it are the latest hot property

16th April 2020

Energy Giant EDP Hit With €10 Million Ransomware Threat

16th April 2020

Slack Incoming Webhooks Can Be Weaponized in Phishing Attacks

15th April 2020

Phishing kit prices skyrocketed in 2019 by 149%

15th April 2020

Another day, another Google cull – Chocolate Factory axes 49 malicious Chrome extensions from web store

15th April 2020

Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for four zero-days

14th April 2020

Microsoft Issues Patches for 3 Bugs Exploited as Zero-Day in the Wild

14th April 2020

Second-wave dotcom Uber-investor Softbank forecasts gargantuan losses as world economy faces slump

14th April 2020

Microsoft’s Teams clocks 2.7 billion minutes of meetings in a single day as April starts to run out for Windows 10 2004

14th April 2020

Russian state hackers behind San Francisco airport hack

14th April 2020

52k Iranian ID cards with selfies sold on dark web & hacking forum

9th April 2020

7 Ways Hackers and Scammers Are Exploiting Coronavirus Panic

9th April 2020

Takeaway.com says orders had only temporarily decline in March

9th April 2020

Hackers are scanning for vulnerable VPNs in order to launch attacks against remote workers

8th April 2020

Microsoft: Cyber-Criminals Are Targeting Businesses Through Vulnerable Employees

8th April 2020

Microsoft to add DANE and DNSSEC support to Exchange Online servers

8th April 2020

Microsoft buys corp.com domain in the name of customer security

7th April 2020

Secure Remote Working During COVID-19 — Checklist for CISOs

7th April 2020

Email provider got hacked, data of 600,000 users now sold on the dark web

7th April 2020

IBM taps former Bank of America CTO to oversee cloud business

6th April 2020

Zoom Blow as Thousands of User Videos Are Found Online

6th April 2020

Researcher Hijacks iOS, macOS Camera with Three Safari Zero-Days

3rd April 2020

Zoom Patches Three New Bugs in Scramble to Support Remote Workers

3rd April 2020

How Just Visiting A Site Could Have Hacked Your iPhone or MacBook Camera

3rd April 2020

Most find data security challenging with respect to UCaaS/CCaaS deployments

3rd April 2020

Terabytes of OnlyFans data being sold on hacking forum

2nd April 2020

Are your MS SQL servers part of a cryptomining botnet? Check now!

2nd April 2020

Magecart Hackers Inject iFrame Skimmers in 19 Sites to Steal Payment Data

2nd April 2020

How can you strengthen an enterprise third-party risk management program?

2nd April 2020

Why All Employees Are Responsible for Company Cybersecurity

1st April 2020

Millions of routers running OpenWRT vulnerable to attack

1st April 2020

CISO’s guide to choosing an automated security questionnaire platform

1st April 2020

Houseparty denies hacking user accounts; offers $1 million reward

31st March 2020

Hackers sending malware infected USBs with Best Buy Gift Cards

28th March 2020

Microsoft buys cloud-based 5G services vendor Affirmed Networks

26th March 2020

TrickBot Mobile App Bypasses 2‐Factor Authentication for Net Banking Services

25th March 2020

Critical RCE Bug Affects Millions of OpenWrt-based Network Devices

24th March 2020

Working from home? Switch off Amazon’s Alexa (say lawyers)

24th March 2020

Brazilian startup develops rapid Covid19 test

24th March 2020

DDoS botnets have abused three zero-days in LILIN video recorders for months

21st March 2020

German army’s sensitive data found on laptop bought from eBay

20th March 2020

Cisco fixes root privilege, command injection vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN solution

20th March 2020

Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, VirtualBox fall at Pwn2Own hacking contest

20th March 2020

Windows 10 or Mac user? Patch Adobe Reader and Acrobat now to fix 9 critical security flaws

18th March 2020

VMware patches privilege escalation vulnerability in Fusion, Horizon

18th March 2020

Adobe Releases Critical Patches for Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, Bridge, ColdFusion

18th March 2020

Nigerian spammer made 3X average national salary firehosing macro-laden Word docs at world+dog

17th March 2020

Medical robots pick up the slack in overloaded hospitals

17th March 2020

Amazon to hire 100,000 employees to cope with COVID-19 demand

17th March 2020

How the Rise of IoT Is Changing the CISO Role

11th March 2020

Microsoft Issues March 2020 Updates to Patch 115 Security Flaws

11th March 2020

Hackers leak up to 4 TB of OnlyFans content for download

28th February 2020

Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications in June 2020

28th February 2020

One in four Americans won’t do business with data-breached companies

28th February 2020

Maybe data centers aren’t actually so bad for the planet

28th February 2020

Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong

27th February 2020

New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices

26th February 2020

Microsoft to open Azure regions in Spain, expands Telefonica relationship

25th February 2020

Firefox enables DNS-over-HTTPS by default (with Cloudflare) for all U.S. users

25th February 2020

Install Latest Chrome Update to Patch 0-Day Bug Under Active Attacks

25th February 2020

Slickwraps Breach Hits 857,000 Customers

25th February 2020

PayPal rejects report that exposed critical account takeover vulnerabilities

24th February 2020

Changing the mindset of the CISO: From enforcer to enabler

24th February 2020

#Privacy: Unprotected machine IDs set to cause global losses of at least $51bn losses

24th February 2020

Cybersecurity vs. Information Security: Is There a Difference? – Cloud Academy

24th February 2020

Passwordless authentication is here and there, but not everywhere

24th February 2020

97% of IT leaders worried about insider data breaches

24th February 2020

Apple joins industry effort to eliminate passwords

24th February 2020

New Jersey Hospital Network Faces Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack

23rd February 2020

Redefining Zero Trust: Does Zero Really Mean Zero?

22nd February 2020

How to Get CISOs & Boards on the Same Page

22nd February 2020

Cybersecurity job market set to worsen once more – ITProPortal

21st February 2020

Private details of 10.7 million MGM Hotel guests sold on Dark Web

21st February 2020

#Privacy: C-suite fears grow over cybersecurity talent shortage

21st February 2020

#Privacy: Cybercriminals exploited previously stolen credentials or known software vulnerabilities last year

21st February 2020

FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 Report Reveals Cyber Criminals Are Increasingly Turning to Ransomware as a Secondary Source of Income – Yahoo Finance

21st February 2020

Hack Of Patient Survey Firm NRC Health Raises Questions Over US Records Security

21st February 2020

Researchers recovered 9 billion email & password combos in 2019

20th February 2020

SIEM Still Creates Complexity and Administration Challenges

20th February 2020

5 Strategies to Secure Cloud Operations Against …

20th February 2020

Chinese Hackers Target Asian Betting Firms

20th February 2020

Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Service Tutanota

18th February 2020

Iranian Hackers Exploiting VPN Flaws to Backdoor Organizations Worldwide

18th February 2020

Two-Thirds of CISOs Struggling with Skills Shortages

18th February 2020

The role played by CISOs in addressing cybersecurity challenges: Akshay Aggarwal, Oracle India – DATAQUEST

18th February 2020

Iranian APT group hacking VPN servers for “Fox Kitten Campaign”

17th February 2020

Global Cyber Threats on the Rise with No Respite – Latest Hacking News

17th February 2020

A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices

17th February 2020

Artificial Intelligence – The Next Frontier in IT Security? | Fast Future Publishing

17th February 2020

Kaspersky reveals magnitude of British business ‘cyber-complacency’ – Software Testing News

17th February 2020

New Election App Breaches Exposed Data on Millions of Israelis, Again

16th February 2020

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 7

14th February 2020

IoT device security: 5 tips for enterprises

13th February 2020

Pay for these four tech jobs is rocketing. Cloud computing is the cause

13th February 2020

Download: Definitive ‘IR Management and Reporting ‘ Presentation Template

12th February 2020

Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts

12th February 2020

Data security startup Open Raven launches to prevent data breaches – Business Insider

12th February 2020

Update Microsoft Windows Systems to Patch 99 New Security Flaws

11th February 2020

Adobe Releases Patches for Dozens of Critical Flaws in 5 Software

11th February 2020

Cybersecurity is a board level issue: 3 CISOs tell why

11th February 2020

How to Protect Your Network Infrastructure and Apps from DDoS Attacks?

10th February 2020

Shadow IT accounts with weak passwords endanger organizations

10th February 2020

The Oscar nominated movie you just downloaded could be a malware

7th February 2020

Hackers can steal data from air-gapped PC using screen brightness

6th February 2020

5 High Impact Flaws Affect Cisco Routers, Switches, IP Phones and Cameras

5th February 2020

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

4th February 2020

Zero Trust: a quick guide to upping your cybersecurity game

30th January 2020

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