With a majority of the organizations opting for remote working in the Middle East due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a substantial increase in cyber threats as well as per a recent report by VMware Carbon Black. Ransomware attacks alone rose by 148 percent from February-March 2020, withRead More…
Reviewing the statistic of cyber-attacks on smartphone users, the researchers saw that in the period of January – June 2020, the number of malicious attacks on mobile users reached 68,063. The overall dynamics were clearly showing that quarantine did not have a particular influence on the United ArabRead More…
Following a significant spike in COVID-19 themed cyber-attacks on the healthcare sector, Dimension Data is offering world-class Incident Response Remediation assistance at no cost to UAE hospitals combatting the pandemic.Read More…
In response to the growing threat of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed cyberattacks, Anomali, recently publicly released over 6,000 open source Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) that were collected, curated, and validated by Anomali researchers.Read More…
Claude Schuck, regional manager, Middle East at Veeam Software has identified four key areas all businesses must address to ensure business continuity.Read More…
Sherrod DeGrippo, Sr. Director of Threat Research and Detection, Proofpoint, shares the latest examples as a reminder that users should be watchful and exercise caution where Coronavirus-themed emails and websites are concerned. Proofpoint researchers have been observing an increased activity around the global Coronavirus outbreak for malicious activity, which hasRead More…
Mohammed Al-Moneer, Regional Vice President, MENA at A10 Networks explains how the security and encryption landscape is changing and what is in store for enterprises in 2020.Read More…
Microsoft is banning almost 40 new types of file extensions on its Outlook email platform. The aim is to protect email users from what it deems “at-risk” file attachments, which are typically sent with malicious scripts or executables. The move will prevent users from downloading email attachments with variousRead More…
