In line with its strategic approach to embed digitalization across its operations, Bank Nizwa has formed an IT & Cybersecurity Committee, a first-of-its-kind initiative in Oman’s banking industry. The formation of the new committee comes as part of the bank’s vision to become the “Digital Bank of Choice” for people ofRead More…
The Arab Association for Cyber Security was launched by Qatar University (QU) to foster collaborative Arab collaboration to debate future issues in cybersecurity and to propose cooperative methods to build research and programs in this field.Read More…
AI has become a critical component in information security as it can swiftly evaluate millions of events and identify a variety of risks. Sohrob Kazerounian, senior data scientist at Vectra AI elaborates to Security MEA on AI in cybersecurity. How can AI identify between “good” and “bad” behavior and actRead More…
Zain KSA has launched its “Internet Monsters” campaign across various digital platforms and social media sites. This comes at a crucial time when the activity of this younger age group is on the rise, reaching an average of 30% of all internet users.Read More…
Major General Khalil Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Dubai Police’s Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, chaired a meeting with the Anti-Economic Crimes Department and the Electronic Investigation Department to assess the readiness of security teams participating in the Dubai Expo 2020.Read More…
Check Point Research (CPR) identified four security vulnerabilities affecting products in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online. If exploited, the vulnerabilities would grant an attacker the ability to execute code on targets via malicious Office documents, such as Word (.DOCX), Excel (.EXE) and Outlook (.EML).Read More…
After a user released a 100GB text file containing 8.4 billion passwords from prior data leaks and breaches on a prominent hacker forum, the world’s largest password collection was leaked.Read More…
BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, has introduced Cloud Privilege Broker, its new entitlements and permissions management solution that enables IT operations and security teams to easily visualize and manage access risk across hybrid and multi-cloud environments from a single interface.Read More…
