To empower Middle East businesses to mitigate the financial and reputational impact of cyber-attacks, Help AG, the region’s leading cybersecurity solutions, services and consultancy provider, today unveiled its new Critical Services Integrity Monitoring (CSIM) service. An ‘add-on’ to the company’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offering, this new addition deliversRead More…
Spire Solutions has signed a distribution partnership with Titus to assist organizations in the Middle East with developing an effective data protection strategy that includes data identification, classification and categorization.Read More…
IBM Security has announced the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data breaches on organisations. According to the report, the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and now costs $3.92 million on average globally.Read More…
A flaw in a Facebook app designed for children under 13 years old allows them to chat online with people unapproved by their parents. The messaging app is designed to give parents control over who their kids text and video chat with online, but a bug in the software letsRead More…
A new business email compromise (BEC) scam targeting company customers by asking for aging reports from employees, has been discovered by Agari Cyber Intelligence Division. BEC scammers impersonate CEOs of targeted companies and request information from employees on invoices that are overdue for payment in the form of an agingRead More…
Kaspersky has uncovered a significant rise in the use of malware designed to harvest consumers’ digital data, known as password stealers. According to Kaspersky’s data, the number of consumers targeted by stealers increased from less than 600,000 people in the first half of 2018 to over 940,000 during the same periodRead More…
A critical flaw impacting millions of mobile and internet of things (IoT) devices running NVIDIA’s Tegra processor has opened the door for several attacks, including device hijacking or siphoning of data. The warning comes from a cybersecurity researcher, who discovered the flaw and asserts that the bug “affects every singleRead More…
Google is conducting a “root-and-branch review” of third-party developer access to user data. The company has now said its new policy for Minimum Permission and Updated User Data Policy will be enforced starting October 15, 2019 — in other words, Chrome will no longer support sketchy extensions that gather data on Read More…
