Cybereason, the leader in operation-centric attack protection, announced the discovery of several previously unidentified cyber attack campaigns infiltrating major telecommunications providers across Southeast Asia. Similar to the recent SolarWinds and Kaseya attacks, the threat actors first compromised third-party service providers — but in this case instead of using them toRead More…
To settle a lawsuit alleging that it violated users’ privacy rights by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn, as well as allowing hackers to disrupt Zoom meetings in a practice known as Zoombombing, Zoom Video Communications Inc agreed to pay $85 million and strengthen its security practices.Read More…
In the wake of a growing number of both ransomware and sophisticated attacks, Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company, has developed 10 foundational configuration checks for its solutions, including Tenable.io, Tenable.sc and both Nessus Professional and Nessus Essentials, that assess Microsoft Active Directory security readiness and align remediation efforts based onRead More…
The UAE National Cyber Security Council (NCSC) has launched the first phase of the “National Bug Bounty Program,” which aims to improve the UAE’s cybersecurity systems, reinforce the country’s leading position in global competitiveness indexes, and engage community members, public and private sector entities in infrastructure protection.Read More…
In the first half of 2021, ransomware attacks skyrocketed, eclipsing the entire volume for 2020 in only six months, according to the mid-year update to the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report published. In a new paradigm for cybercrime, SonicWall is analyzing how threat actors are using any means possible toRead More…
According to research from NETSCOUT’s ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT), threat actors launched approximately 5.4 million Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2021, an 11 percent increase from the same time period in 2020, putting the world on track to hit close to 11 millionRead More…
Cyway, a Cybersecurity solutions provider specializing in identity-centric and cloud security, and Ericom Software, a leading provider of Zero Trust cloud cybersecurity solutions and developer of the ZTEdge SASE Platform, announce they have entered a distribution partnership to offer Ericom’s Zero Trust security solutions to Cyway’s Channel across the MiddleRead More…
Acronis, the global leader in cyber protection, announced a new advanced protection pack for its service provider solution, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. The new Advanced File Sync and Share pack builds on the essential file-sharing capabilities included in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, layering additional data security capabilities such as blockchain-basedRead More…
