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Fears about Russian involvement in European elections, especially after last year’s US election, aren’t exactly unfounded or born out of paranoia. In fact, Germany says it fended off two cyber attacks coming from the same cybercriminals that targeted Hillary Clinton’s Read More …
An influential British think tank and Ukraine’s military are disputing a report that the U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has used to buttress its claims of Russian hacking in the presidential election. The CrowdStrike report, released in December, asserted that Russians Read More …
I couldn’t attend the RSA Conference this year, but many cybersecurity professionals and my ESG colleagues told me that incident response (IR) automation and orchestration was one of the hottest topics in the halls of the Moscone Center—through the bar Read More …
Last year, LinkedIn suffered a massive data breach where millions of passwords were leaked, and it seems that out of the entire trove of data, 35% of users were using weak passwords to begin with, while other 65% were using Read More …
A recent study by ISC² found that when it comes to cybersecurity, over half of British companies are “chronically understaffed” without the right number of IT specialists to deal with online threats. Worryingly, the same research said that the global Read More …
There is a gaping hole in the digital defences that companies use to keep out cyber thieves. The hole is the global shortage of skilled staff that keeps security hardware running, analyses threats and kicks out intruders. Currently, the global Read More …
A spamming group called River City Media (RCM), led by well known spammers Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferris, has had its database of 1.4 billion records leaked. Revealed by Chris Vickery from the MacKeeper Security Researcher, in cooperation with CSO Read More …
Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, according to the recent news, Read More …
WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine Read More …
Bakers are not immune from the hacking epidemic spreading across Europe, a top insurer has warned. Hiscox boss Bronek Masojada said small businesses faced just as much risk as large ones from cyber crime – but many did not have Read More …
