33% Surge in Financial Fraud Attempts During #COVID19 Lockdown
Financial providers foil criminals seeking to take advantage of pandemic disruption
Month: June 2020
Medical Devices Among Most Risky to Security
Analysis from the Forescout Device Cloud identified points of risk inherent to device type, sector and cybersecurity policies
Five fascinating facts you didn’t know about the letter Ñ in Spanish
If there’s one letter in the world that’s intrinsically Spanish it’s this one, so much so that the words for Spain (España) and Spanish (español) have it. But how much do you really know about this N with a squiggly hat on it?
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Firms Plan Hiring Spree to Bolster Remote Working Security
Centrify study claims many admit policy failings
Zoom Hires Former Salesforce SVP as New CISO
Jason Lee also spent 15 years at Microsoft
New Indictment Seeks to Tie Assange Closer to Hacking Conspiracy
US government alleges WikiLeaks founder was in close contact with LulzSec
COVID-Themed Ransomware Attack on Android Users Revealed
Android users were lured into downloading a ransomware app disguised as an official COVID-19 tracing tool
Largest Ever Recorded Packet Per Second-Based DDoS Attack Mitigated by Akamai
On June 21, 2020, Akamai mitigated the largest packet per second (PPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded on the Akamai platform. The attack generated 809 million packets per second (Mpps), targeting a large European bank.
US Soldier Indicted Over Mass Murder Plot
US soldier accused of conspiring with extremists to launch deadly attack on his own unit
Two-Year Data Breach at Florida Senior Care Provider
Patient data impacted by long-running breach at Florida senior care provider