Companies are at an increased risk of becoming targets of cyber incidents due to the use of shadow IT by their employees amid the growing trend towards a distributed workforce, a recent study has found. According to research by Kaspersky, 87% of companies in the UAE suffered cyber incidents inRead More…
As 2023 draws to a close, Chainalysis, the blockchain data company, has revealed the results of its research on ‘approval phishing’ scams through the past year. The technique, in which scammers trick their targets into signing a malicious blockchain transaction that allows them to spend specific tokens inside the victim’s wallet,Read More…
By Grant Bourzikas, CSO Cloudflare 1. The knowledge gap between security professionals who understand AI and those who do not will be the number one reason for any shift in the balance of power to threat actors. Whether or not the usage of AI is giving attackers a leg up isRead More…
McAfee has released its 2024 predictions, revealing the issues consumers are potentially likely to face in 2024, as cybercrooks continue to exploit rapidly advancing AI technology to carry out dangerous deepfakes, identity theft, and increasingly sophisticated cyber scams. McAfee has released its 2024 predictions, revealing the issues consumers are potentiallyRead More…
Securonix has announced the appointment of Biju Muduli as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Muduli will be responsible for the development, implementation and execution of marketing initiatives that will help drive Securonix’s next phase of growth and strengthen its position as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies. “We are thrilledRead More…
By David Warburton (additional contributions by Shahnawaz Backer, Samantha Borer, Remi Cohen, Jim Downey, Malcolm Heath, Tafara Muwandi, Keiron Shepherd, Sander Vinberg) How times have changed! Looking back at our 5 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2023 there was not a single mention of AI. And yet, here we are wrapping up 2023 (pun very muchRead More…
OPSWAT has announced that it will be launching OPSWAT Academy Bootcamp, a three-day instructor-led training program starting in April 2024. The OPSWAT Academy Bootcamp is an extension of OPSWAT Academy, an interactive and comprehensive cybersecurity training platform designed to educate and certify cybersecurity professionals responsible for safeguarding critical environments. WithRead More…
On December 13, Kaspersky held the final round of its international Secur’IT Cup student competition, in which young cybersecurity researchers submit innovative ideas that address specific cybersecurity problems. The winner of the 2023 contest is the “Net.Resources” team, which came up with and successfully pitched the “PeTTly” project, a comprehensiveRead More…
