Infosecurity News

#ISC2Congress: The #COVID19 Cyber-Threat Landscape for Businesses
Tactics used by cyber-villains have not changed significantly during COVID-19

#ISSE2020: ‘Real’ Digital Identity Can Exist with New Technology
Can a digital identity exist where the user is in control?

Employees Have Access to an Average of 10 Million Files
New research indicates orgs are failing to secure file access

#ISSE2020: Look to Decentralized (Rather than Legacy) Identity Approvals
The issues of identity and how legacy problems still impact users

#ISC2Congress: Modern Security Pros Are Much More than Technologists, Says Bruce Schneier
Security pros must become policy-minded, public-interest technologists

Over 80,000 ID Cards and Fingerprint Scans Exposed in Cloud Leak
AWS S3 bucket managed by TronicsXchange is found online

UK Firms Least Likely to Pay Ransom Globally
CrowdStrike data reveals 39% have been hit over past year

Capcom Ransomware Breach May Have Hit 350,000
Employees, customers, shareholders and others possibly affected

Healthcare Data Breaches to Triple in 2021
New research predicts 300% year on year rise in data breaches impacting healthcare providers

Teen Wins Peace Prize for Fighting Cyber-Bullying
Bangladeshi teen’s cyber-bullying reporting app wins him International Children’s Peace Prize

#ISC2Congress: How 5G is Expanding the Attack Surface
Nokia’s Kevin McNamee explores the security implications of 5G technology

IT Leaders Reliant on Data for Threat Insight
The value of data has permanently increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

Cyber-Criminal Fined $300,000 for Pipeline Attacks
Court fines Anonymous member behind DDoS attacks on Dakota Access Pipeline

Crypto Firm Offers $200,000 Bug Bounty to Hacker Who Stole $2m
Attacker exploited flaw in smart contract platform

Russian and North Korean Groups Still Targeting #COVID19 Vaccine Firms
Microsoft points the finger at Fancy Bear, Lazarus and Cerium

Scammers Expose Facebook Data Haul of 13 Million Records
Misconfigured Elasticsearch database to blame

ICE Operation Arrests 113 Child Predators
US and Brazil team up to tackle production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material

Ticketmaster Fined £1.25m Over Data Breach
ICO fines British ticketing company £1.25m for failing to protect customers’ payment details

New Center Supports Rail Cybersecurity
Egis Group and Cylus partner to launch rail cybersecurity Center of Excellence

Shutterstock Adds Single Sign-On Integration to its Platform
SSO is designed to eliminate password fatigue and speed up authentication



