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Legislators from both political parties presented a bill designed to protect American technological infrastructure Senators Marco Rubio (Republican Party) and Mark Warner (Democratic Party), members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, presented the bill for the creation of the Office of Critical Technologies and Security. According to cybersecurity and digital forensics experts from the International […]
Digital scams, especially phishing scams are reportedly posing a “serious problem” for Canada’s Global Affairs Department. A recent report by The Canadian Press reporter Jim Bronskill states that as per Canada’s Global Affairs Department, too many of its employees get deceived by digital scams, which now pose a “serious problem” and could lead to sensitive […]
The United Kingdom’s National Cybersecurity Centre has thwarted more than 1.6k attacks over the past two years, many of them deployed by other governments The UK cyber defense center has defended critical infrastructure and information from its territory against more than 1.6k cyberattacks in the past two years, as reported by experts in digital forensics […]
There was not enough time before November mid-term elections to switch to a safe alternative on paper, said District Judge Amy Totenberg A judge in the state of Georgia, US, approved the use of electronic voting machines, despite a “serious concern” that these devices could be hacked. This concern has caused many territories to speak […]
US president has relaxed the procedure to launch computer attacks, reported local media Cyber security organization specialists report that Donald Trump, president of the US, has signed an order to relax the government guidelines on the use of cyberattacks. This measure represents a setback to the guidelines enlisted by former President Barack Obama, requiring a large […]
As reported in Eurasiareview – A US-based cybersecurity intelligence group says Iranian state institutions have perpetrated a growing number of international cyber-attacks for profit in recent months. In a VOA Persian interview, Accenture Security growth and strategy leader Tom Parker said “We certainly have seen an evolution in the motive of why some attacks are […]
Hennepin County announced yesterday that they are investigating cyber attack that was targeted at their employee’s emails. It was also know that Ramsey County is also on the same line of carrying out an investigation how it happened. In a statement Hennepin County said that 20 employees became victims of a sophisticated cyberattack. The attack […]
As per recent reports, the official website of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) hadn’t fallen victim to cyberattacks last year in May, as was initially assumed and reported. The surge in traffic that led to the assumption that it could be a cyberattack was actually caused by viewers of a particular television show, as per […]
Fresh sanctions have been imposed by the US Treasury Department on five Russian entities and three individuals. The intelligence claims that they worked with Moscow military and intelligence service with the intention to conduct cyberattacks against the United States. The sanction was over their alleged roles in cyberattacks, including the NotPetya malware attack. The latest […]
The pace at which cyberattack are happening today, it looks imminent that companies will not be in a position to keep up with the attacks, and it is already happening. Off course yes, since the attacks come in new forms with better technology. Ponemon Institute recently conducted a survey and found that nearly 59 percent of companies […]
In the modern digital world data is a crucial component of an organization, data leaks pose a serious threat to company reputation, loss of critical information and temporary loss of ability to trade. There is a drastic increase in the number of attacks and 2017 is the year for some worst data breaches, many of […]
Cybersecurity Strategy refers to the security plans enterprises adopt in order to safeguard their businesses against various evolving cybersecurity threats. These security plans are the result of a lot of brainstorming usually conducted between the board of directors of the respective enterprises and cybersecurity professionals, the output of which are – to put it very […]
Support for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing in many fields, and cyber security is no different. Prompted by this trend, NVIDIA has invested in Deep Instinct, an Israeli startup focused on using deep learning to thwart cyber-attacks. “Artificial intelligence is the most important technology trend of our era,” said Jeff Herbst, vice president of business […]
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 […]