Mohammad AbuKhater, vice-president for FireEye Middle East and Africa speaks to Anita Joseph about the cybersecurity landscape in the region, the need for companies, especially small businesses, to wake up to their vulnerabilities, and take steps for 24/7 monitoring of threats, in order to effectively safeguard businesses from cyber-attacks. Read More…
Intel has revealed a new class of vulnerabilities impacting all modern Intel chips, which can potentially leak sensitive data from a system’s CPU. Company officials said that the flaws, named Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), comprise four different attacks, all of which depend on different ways side channel attacks to stealRead More…
An international cybercrime group has attacked the networks of three unnamed US-based antivirus firms and stolen approximately 30 terabytes of data. The group is offering to sell the data, as well as access to the company networks for a sum of $300,000. As first reported by Ars Technica, the “boutique cybersecurityRead More…
Recently at Kaspersky Lab’s annual Cyber Security Weekend 2019 that took place in Cape Town South Africa. Reuben Paul, a 13 year old, 7th grader known as the “Cyber Ninja”, was able to hack into a drone, exposing the gaping holes in the security measures of millions of every dayRead More…
AIRBNB users have complained that their accounts have been “hacked,” with holidays booked in their name costing thousands of pounds. Others say genuine reservations have been cancelled leaving them nowhere to stay. Some users even say they had their accounts deleted. An Airbnb user tweeted that his account was hacked andRead More…
Every year, the first Thursday of May is designated as World Password Day-not exactly a cause for celebration, but the fact is, these little crypto keys which are our first line of digital defence, may well be on their way out. For many of us, this will come as aRead More…
Darktrace, the world’s leading AI company for cyber security, is making its presence felt at the ongoing AI Everything Summit with its innovative approach to threat perception and studied defence against the most sophisticated cyber threats.Read More…
The global cyber security landscape hasn’t matured because of lack of capabilities and awareness of the ramifications of cyber threats, says Ned Baltagi, Managing Director, SANS Institute, the number 1 cyber security training company in the world. SANS Institute is also the most trusted resource globally, for cyber security certificationsRead More…
