Cyber
How can businesses lower the risks of Cyber Attacks?
Cyber Attack is now a dreaded word for all IT environments around the world irrespective of their nature of being public or private. And everyone(CIOs to CTOs) are now interested in knowing the secret for cyber resilience and so are getting busy in seeking measures which offer greater protection against cyber attacks. Therefore, Cybersecurity Insiders […]
Cybersecurity Startup Tanium uses sensitive customer data in its Marketing Demos
End Point Security and Systems Management Company Tanium has been accused by El Camino Hospital for using its sensitive patient data in demos meant to impress prospective clients. The Wall Street Journal latest revelation alleges that the security startup used the customer data without permission in all its demos meant for promotion between 2010-2015. A […]
Malware cyber attack exposes Credit Card details of InterContinental Hotel guests
A malware attack on a chain of hotels owned by InterContinental has resulted in the leak of credit card details to hackers. The Global Hotels Chain has also accepted the fact that the stolen details were used by hackers to make unauthorized transactions. The brands affected were Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, Crowne […]
One in every 5 UK businesses hit by Cyber Attacks
A research conducted by British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) suggests that one in every 5 British businesses is being targeted by Cyber criminals. The said trend is said to be continuing from the past couple of years on a consistent note and is said to head further into future. The BBC study also suggests that […]
US to intensify its Cyber Attack campaign against North Korea
The United States is all set to intensify its cyber attack campaign against North Korea in coming weeks. As per a news report aired by Sky News, the federal government is all set to intensify its cyber and electronic warfare against its enemy nations such as Russia, China, and North Korea. According to the New […]
Cyber Attacks on Businesses cost investors £42 billion loss
Cyber Attacks on businesses is costing investors £42 billion loss says a study commissioned by cyber security firm CGI and conducted by Oxford Economics. The study also confirmed that a company which is listed in FTSE 100 Index gets worse off by an average of £120 million after a breach. Oxford Economics made the study […]
China cyber attacks IT companies operating in Britain
China-based hacking group known as APT10 has launched spear-phishing cyber attacks on IT firms based in London. United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has confirmed this news and added that the aim of these cybercriminal gangs is to steal private data along with intellectual properties and use them as a proxy for future attacks. […]
North Korea Cyber Attacking banks around the world to fund its nuclear program
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab claimed that North Korea is launching cyber attacks on Banks around the world in order to fund its Nuclear Program. The cyber security firm added that it has enough digital evidence to prove that N Korea was involved in last Year’s cyber heist of $81 million siphoned from the account of […]
Cyber Security check is must during a Merger and Acquisition
The year 2016 saw a lot of news headlines related to data breaches and hacks and Yahoo topped the most among those. At first, the web services giant became the victim of a largest cyber attack in history which saw over 1 billion accounts being compromised. Then it experienced the worst as Verizon which was […]
Broadcast signals make Smart TVs vulnerable Cyber Attacks!
Smart TV Broadcast signals are being used to launch cyber attacks which enable hackers to spy on people with the TVs camera and microphone. The attack also offers the hackers a potential to access several TVs at once without the need of any physical tampering. So, a single attack on home a smart TV can […]