Infosecurity News

  1. Government Trials Effort to Make Bug Scanning Easier

    New initiative features collection of NMAP Scripting Engine scripts

  2. Home Working Drives 44% Surge in Insider Threats

    Proofpoint claims related costs have soared to over $15m

  3. LA Launches Cyber Resilience Center

    Port of Los Angeles opens state-of-the-art cyber defense facility

  4. New Mexico Files Cybersecurity Bills

    Lawmakers seek to bolster protections against cyber-threats with two new bills

  5. Cyber-Attack on Global Affairs Canada

    Treasury Board of Canada confirms attack on Canada’s foreign affairs department

  6. UK Government Announces New Cyber Strategy to Protect Public Sector

    The initiative is designed to prevent essential public sector services from being shut down by hostile threat actors

  7. Experts Call for More Open Security Culture After VW Sacking

    Senior employee raised concerns about fraud

  8. Cyber Essentials Overhauled for New Hybrid Working Era

    UK government security certifications enhance baseline security for firms

  9. Belarus Activists Fire Ransomware at State Railway

    Cyber-group wants to disrupt Russian troop deployments

  10. IRS to Require New ID Verification

    Users must sign up with ID.me to access their IRS accounts online

  11. SBA Announces $3m Cybersecurity Program

    New program aims to boost cybersecurity infrastructure of emerging small businesses

  12. NSF Awards $29m to Cybersecurity Scholarships

    National Science Foundation to fund hundreds of cyber scholarships at eight universities

  13. Two in Five IT Security Managers Considering Quitting Their Jobs

    The study found there is an average security staff turnover rate of 20% in the UK

  14. US Data Breaches Surge 68% to All-Time High

    Number of victims decreases as criminals focus efforts

  15. US Adds 17 Exploited Bugs to "Must Patch" List

    One was used to attack Ukrainian websites

  16. UK's Privacy Tsar Mounts Fierce Defense of End-to-End Encryption

    ICO responds to controversial government PR campaign

  17. Homelife of Connecticut Residents Secretly Recorded

    Cops arrest man suspected of using digital devices to record his neighbors in their homes

  18. Pennsylvania Approves Ransomware Bill

    New legislation would prohibit use of taxpayers money’ to pay cyber-attack ransoms

  19. Memorial Health System Confirms Data Breach

    Ransomware attack jeopardizes data of 216K patients of Ohio-based health system

  20. (ISC)2 Appoints its First CISO

    (ISC)2 appoints Jon France as its first CISO

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