Academics: Only 82 of the 629 commercial cyber-security reports (13%) published in the last decade discuss a threat to civil society, with the rest focusing on cybercrime, nation-state hackers, economic espionage. The vast majority of reports published by the cyber-security industry focus on high-end economic espionage and state-sponsored hacking topics, ignoring Read more…
A protected home network means your family can use the internet more safely and securely. A protected home network means your family can use the internet more safely and securely. Most households now run networks of devices linked to the internet, including computers, gaming systems, TVs, tablets, smartphones and wearable Read more…
Desperate for stability, our society keeps talking about “the new normal” — how our personal and professional lives will be permanently altered by the coronavirus pandemic — and understandably, work-from-home policies are a cornerstone of that conversation. Remote work was a critical enabler of business and economic continuity during the Read more…
Washington, D.C., – CompTIA, the leading association for the global information technology (IT) industry, issued the following statement, attributed to Cinnamon Rogers, executive vice president for public advocacy, on the Enabling Online Virtual Workforce Training Act introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Lloyd Smucker (R-PA): “The COVID-19 Read more…
FBI believes device vendors won’t disable these protocols and warns companies to take preventive and protective measures. he Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The alert Read more…
WASHINGTON — The Air Force is ensuring its mission essential cyber training goes on during the global COVID-19 pandemic but officials are also delaying some training related to the service’s networks. “When all this kicked off, we prioritized all of the mission essential courses that are supplying operators to the Read more…
A number of articles have been published recently predicting that the largest cyberattack in history is destined to happen soon, one of the main underlying factors behind this assertion is the overnight explosion of the enterprise attack surface and large increase in noted hacks that we’ve witnessed during the COVID-19 Read more…
Campaign Targets Un-patched Software and Weak Authentication, Defenders Warn A crime gang seeking “ransomware attack opportunities” is targeting organizations that use unpatched or poorly secured Citrix remote-access technology, then stealing data, unleashing crypto-locking malware and using the threat of exfiltrated data being publicly dumped to try to force payment, New Read more…
Global IT services and solutions provider DXC Technology announced over the weekend a ransomware attack on systems from its Xchanging subsidiary. Xchanging is known as a managed service provider for businesses in the insurance industry but its list of customers includes companies from other fields: financial services, aerospace and defense, Read more…
The discussion around state-sponsored cyber attacks on Australia has once again launched to the fore in the country following comments by the Prime Minister Scott Morrison on June 19. According to the new remarks, Australian institutions of all kinds have fallen victim to cyber attacks from a sophisticated state based Read more…