The Petya ransomware attack that was inspired by WannaCry attack, kicked off on June 27. Symantec has investigated the motivation behind the Petya attack, to understand whether money or disruption is the more likely motivation of the people behind the Petya cyber attack. According to Symantec telemetry, the majority of victimsRead More…
Millennials, the name given to the demographic cohort born, roughly speaking, between 1980 and 2000, are members of what is now the largest living generation. As they mature into 20 and 30-something professionals, they are taking over the helm from their parents across all sectors. But with a predicted shortage of 1.8 million workersRead More…
Trend Micro has today announced the launch of a corporate venture fund to explore emerging technology markets. With an initial investment of $100 million, this venture fund will allow Trend Micro to nurture a portfolio of startups that are incubating ideas and living at the epicenter of hyper growth markets,Read More…
A recent CNBC report has revealed that many cybersecurity companies saw their stocks rally Wednesday as the “Petya” ransomware program immobilized more than 12,000 computers from companies around the world in order to extort money from their owners, according to numbers from Microsoft.Read More…
SonicWall set the milestone by shipping its three millionth firewall besides surpassing its own financial and operational metrics set across sales, partner engagement and support. “In fewer than eight months, SonicWall has already exceeded the ambitious financial and operational metrics established for the business. We believed in this investment from dayRead More…
Kalle Bjorn, Director, Systems Engineering, Fortinet details the company’s research on the latest romsomware attack, Petya saying that the company is currently tracking this new ransomware variant that is sweeping across the globe and is Read More…
The rapid pace of the new Petya ransomware attack points at another worm that can spread from computer to computer by itself, Mimecast has said. In an advisory, Steven Malone, director of security product management at Mimecast, commented, “Many commentators think WannaCry came from hackers in Russia, perhaps as an experiment thatRead More…
Petya first appeared this morning and has been spreading around the world, mainly infecting businesses and government agencies and departments in the Ukraine and Russia, but there have been increasing reports of businesses in other countries also being compromised, with reports filtering in from the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland andRead More…
