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Cybersecurity is a very sensitive area, one small mistake and it could lead to grave consequences and big losses. Thus it needs to be pointed out that the cybersecurity professional’s job is a very challenging one. There are lots of manuals prescribing the duties, roles, and responsibilities of a cybersecurity guy. Here’s a look at […]
The Swedish government now has to face and investigate damage from a massive data breach, a real IT catastrophe. The Swedish authorities have discovered a massive mistake that has happened in the nation’s data files. The government has reportedly incorrectly uploaded an entire database, including all kinds of secret lists; this had reportedly happened when […]
Educate teenagers about the ill-effects of drugs and chances are they might refrain from doing them. On the other hand, ‘order them’ not to do drugs, and chances are they might become life long addicts. The same principle applies when it comes to framing cyber security policies as well. Considering the ever-evolving IT security threat […]
Cyber experts in India warned against downloading third party GST apps, applications designed to assist in calculating the newly implemented Goods and Services Tax. A report was published on Business Today, one of India’s leading business magazines, titled “Don’t download third party GST apps! They may be malware.” The report says to “think twice before […]
A recent cyber-attack that crippled some of the world’s most critical computer networks might have originated in China. The ransomware attack infects a user’s computer via a malicious email—similar to a phishing attack. The attack affected 300,000 computers in 150 countries. A new analysis relating to the cyber attack suggests that it might have come […]
In the world, users became a victim of ransomware that asked to pay the ransom to unlock their data on the computer. Until Friday, 200000 users were severely hit by this ransomware. There were many accidents because of this ransomware. Operations in prestigious hospitals in the UK were canceled as their IT cell tried to […]
The latest global “ransomware” has disrupted hospitals, factories, and schools. It has given an incentive to the European investors on Monday to buy those stocks that were most likely to benefit from the pickup in the cybersecurity spending. This cyber attack spread its wings across the globe on Friday. In no time, it locked more […]