[ad_1] Recently, the Internet Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the internet open and secure, experienced an extensive third party data breach compromising 80,000+ members’ PII. These files contained names, emails, mailing addresses, and logins and were ultimately exposed publicly online. The data was hosted in an Azure environment, specifically, a storage repository. It […]
[ad_1] Remember back in the late 1990s when the world was freaking out that come the year 2000, computers would suddenly stop working due to the change in the year? It looks like we’re about to relive those issues, except maybe on a smaller scale and it is only limited to two browsers – Google […]
[ad_1] Are you curious about how your cybersecurity posture compares to your peers? Read on, we have some answers for you. Balbix and Cybersecurity Insiders recently conducted a survey on cybersecurity posture management challenges and concerns. The 2022 State of Cybersecurity Posture Report is based on survey responses from ~300 IT and cybersecurity professionals in […]
[ad_1] New Delhi (AFP) – Critically-acclaimed Indian filmmaker Onir wanted to direct a movie inspired by a gay army major who resigned and came out in a blaze of publicity — but despite the country’s democratic status the military stopped it being made. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government has been repeatedly accused of ramping […]
[ad_1] (New York) – Chinese government censorship seriously marred the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which close on February 20, 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and corporate sponsors have not spoken out about the government’s human rights record or used their leverage to press for rights improvements. The Chinese government’s […]
[ad_1] ANKARA: Iran has escalated its longstanding cyber campaign against Turkey through state-sponsored hackers, who have targeted high-profile governmental and private websites in the country since November 2021. Experts believe that the upgraded cyber assault is a reaction against Turkey’s attempts to normalize ties with countries such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel. MuddyWater, […]
[ad_1] Security incident response and forensics are at the top of every CISO’s capability list. But how well are the executives, department and organization prepared? Rob Lee, SANS Institute chief curriculum director and faculty lead, discusses the skills and new levels of preparedness security teams and businesses must have to deal with the onslaught of […]
[ad_1] Thursday, February 17, 2022 In a class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Clearview Al Inc. faces allegations that it uses facial recognition technology that violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The complaint alleged that Clearview scraped over three billion images from various social […]
[ad_1] (Bloomberg) — A Russia-linked cybercrime gang was allegedly responsible for ransomware attacks that took down a swath of Germany’s fuel-distribution system this week and hindered payments at some filling stations. Most Read from Bloomberg Hackers using a strain of ransomware known as “Black Cat” infected computers at Mabanaft GmbH and Oiltanking GmbH Group, according […]
[ad_1] We’re barely into 2022, and already we’re seeing ransomware proliferate. What we saw last year is that while most attacks continue to exploit known vulnerabilities, cybercriminals have also redoubled efforts to target new ones – such as what we saw with Hafnium and new Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities. We expect that this year, as a […]
