Collaborate Disseminate
Security researchers discovered that the Scattered Canary group had filed hundreds of fraudulent unemployment claims in the wake of COVID-19. According to Agari Cyber Intelligence Division, at least some of the threat actors who took part in a large-sc… Continue reading Scattered Canary Behind Hundreds of Fraudulent Unemployment Claims
It’s DBIR season! Put down your pens, stop watching “The Last Dance” and get to reading the key findings of the 13th edition of the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report! If “experience is merely the name men gave to … Continue reading Verizon DBIR 2020: Cloud Apps, Stolen Credentials, and Errors
The digital threat landscape is always changing. This year is an excellent (albeit extreme) example. With the help of Dimensional Research, Tripwire found out that 58% of IT security professionals were more concerned about the security of their employe… Continue reading Attacks Targeting ICS & OT Assets Grew 2000% Since 2018, Report Reveals
British low-cost airline group easyJet revealed that an hacking incident had exposed approximately nine million customers’ information. On May 19, easyJet issued a “Notice of cyber security incident” in which it revealed that it had f… Continue reading Around 9 Million easyJet Customers’ Details Stolen in Hacking Incident
I usually spend my mornings doing some reading and enjoying my coffee. On this one particular morning, I noticed that I had received an email from a gaming company I had created an account with around 10 years ago for my kids. They had sent me a code t… Continue reading Understanding Single Sign On as a Means of Identity Access Management
The UK’s designated national agency responsible for providing information and expert guidance on qualifications (UK NARIC) recently announced that the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential offered by (ISC)2 is rat… Continue reading CISSP vs. Master’s Degree – Please Take a Neutral Corner!
This new world is putting a strain on organizations’ digital security defenses. First, malicious actors are increasingly leveraging coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as a theme to target organizations and to prey upon the fears of their employees. Our … Continue reading Survey: Nearly Two-Thirds of Orgs Have Experienced COVID-19 Related Attacks
The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge project or CyBOK is a collaborative initiative mobilised in 2017 with an aspiration to “codify the foundational and generally recognized knowledge on Cyber Security.” Version 1.0 of the published output … Continue reading I, CyBOK – An Introduction to the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge Project
The United States Marshals Service announced a data breach involving the personal information of its former and current prisoners. In a data breach notification letter obtained by ZDNet, the U.S. Marshals Service revealed that it had first learned of t… Continue reading U.S. Marshals Announced Data Breach of Prisoners’ Information
Samsung has released a security update for its popular Android smartphones which includes a critical fix for a vulnerability that affects all devices sold by the manufacturer since 2014. On its Android security update page Samsung thanks researcher Mat… Continue reading For six years Samsung smartphone users have been at risk from critical security bug. Patch now