Cybersecurity

Employees working from home due to the global pandemic may be at risk of cyberattack due to a lack of protection from not having the latest technology. A survey from DSA Connect notes that not having up-to-date hardware and software when working from home greatly heightens the chance of suffering…

In spite of a seemingly never-ending stream of high profile data breaches and hacks, a worrying number of organizations still feel that updating and optimizing privacy practices is a backburner item. A new study from data privacy compliance platform Osano provides some very sharp and eye-popping numbers to the contrary;…

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post…

Inthe past when you first studied a company, you tried to figure out how it might perform in the months, quarters, and years ahead. But right now in the crony capitalism era, where we continue to witness one-man operations exposing big names as frauds, we need to acknowledge whether companies…

Business couldn’t stop for the pandemic — even when security was in question. Taking the time to strategize deployments, and forecast project outcomes is a hallmark of good cybersecurity. As companies hastily adopted tools to facilitate remote work, security, the IT component that often delays projectsto ensure protection, had to…

Data Security in Our Telcos  

The Department of Homeland Security and CISA ICS-CERT today issued a critical security advisorywarning about over a dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting billions of Internet-connected devices manufactured by many vendors across the globe. Dubbed “Ripple20,” the set of 19 vulnerabilities resides in a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck,…

It didn’t take long for criminals to take advantage of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement that Canada has approved a COVID-19 tracing app to go into action. According to security vendor ESET, it discovered two fake websites designed to look like official Government of Canada sites were quickly created after…

In one of the biggest password re-use studies of its kind, an analysis of more than one billion leaked credentials has discovered that one out of every 142 passwords is the classic “123456” string. The study, carried out last month by computer engineering student Ata Hakçıl, analyzed username and password…

(Bloomberg) — India banned ByteDance Ltd.’s viral short-video service TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, citing threats to its sovereignty and security as relations between the world’s two largest populations worsened. The unprecedented moratorium, announced days after border tensions in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, deals a blow…