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Taking a leaf from Apple’s rulebook regarding cryptocurrency mining, Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to keep shady financial instruments out of its Android applications venue. Over on the Google Play Developer Policy Center, the tech… Continue reading Google Play Store no longer accepts crypto-mining apps
Leveraging a key human trait that machines would not fall for, cybercriminals can easily manipulate or fool humans using social engineering tactics. A new study on the most effective phishing scams shows that, ironically, the subject lines relating to … Continue reading ‘Password Check Required Immediately’ – most effective phishing line
A hacker attack on Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions has compromised 1.5 million patient records, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release. Investigations by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and the Inte… Continue reading Hackers breach Singapore’s largest healthcare provider; steal records of 1.5 million patients, including the Prime Minister
Enterprises are progressively moving their workloads to multiple cloud (multi-cloud) providers, migrating their mission-critical applications to an environment that facilitates performance, management and scalability. This novel strategy shifts fo… Continue reading CIO Cybersecurity Strategies Increasingly Rely on ‘Multi-Cloud’
LabCorp, a clinical lab based in Burlington, North Carolina, fell victim to a ransomware attack last week, in the latest in a long string of hacker attacks on the healthcare sector. The healthcare testing & diagnostics company reportedly noticed su… Continue reading US clinical lab recovers within 50 minutes of getting hit by SamSam ransomware
2018 will be remembered by many in the corporate world as the year the GDPR kicked in. Every organization covered by the EU’s new regulation had a year’s heads up to ensure conformity, yet few today are 100% compliant. However, new dat… Continue reading Businesses Seek to Please Customers Before Regulators in Drive for GDPR Compliance
The past few years have seen IT chiefs take on more and more duties towards achieving cyber resilience for their organizations. Little do their higher-ups know that different ranks across the company must now shoulder those responsibilities to acc… Continue reading CISO Responsibilities Growing Faster than Their Ability to Address Them
A German web-hosting firm has suffered a severe data breach because one of its employees reportedly owed money to the attacker. The company only learned of the breach when the hacker announced it himself, on its support forum. On Jan. 29, the attacker … Continue reading Vengeful hacker exposes DomainFactory customer banking data and passwords
Leveraging customer data is the lifeblood of today’s digital economy, but regulations like the EU’s GDPR threaten to make it difficult to mine this precious “ore.” Businesses still have a few options at their disposal, if they a… Continue reading Survey identifies three types of consumer attitudes to data privacy
Research giant Gartner is out with a report documenting six emerging trends that IT security leaders should keep on their radar in 2018 and beyond. The findings could easily serve as pro tips for security leaders looking to gain a foothold in thei… Continue reading Six Tips for Security Leaders Looking to ‘Elevate their Standing’