Olympus, a leading medical technology company, was forced to take down IT systems in the Americas (U.S., Canada, and Latin America) following a cyberattack that hit...
Microsoft has mitigated a record 2.4 Tbps (terabits per second) Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack targeting a European Azure customer during the last week of August. “This is...
An Android app sitting on the Google Play store touts itself to be a photo editor app. But, it contains code that steals the user’s Facebook credentials to potentially run...
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of the dangers stemming from the use of broadly-scoped certificates to authenticate multiple servers in an organization. In...
The threat landscape continues to expand with an expediential rise in pandemic-related phishing campaigns targeting companies, governments, and individuals. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently...
In the opening column of this series, “Emerging Technology, Evolving Threats,” [check out Part I here and Part II here], I wrote about quantum computing —...
Research into the hacking techniques that result in companies being infected with ransomware offers organizations some useful pointers towards how best to avoid this increasingly common form of...
UPDATED US Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a new piece of legislation that will force organizations to disclose when and how much they have paid to ransomware gangs. Last...
In a new report by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), online investigators uncovered nearly 1,200 advertisements for close to 2,400 animals, parts, derivatives or...
A US optometry group has disclosed a data breach related to unauthorized activity on internal email accounts. Oregon Eye Specialists, which runs six clinics throughout Portland, said the...