Bollywood star and philanthropist Sonu Sood is helping India in the battle against coronavirus. He has been using social media to help find hospital beds and oxygen supplies for those in need. He has recently had Covid-19 and told BBC World News things had been “tough” not because he was recovering from coronavirus but because…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is working relentlessly with the health ministry and other countries to tackle oxygen shortages, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shaina Nana Chudasama has said. “It is most unfortunate that we have lost lives and nobody expected this double mutant [coronavirus] to shape up in this particular way,” she…
India has seen more Covid cases in the last seven days than any other country as it battles its second wave. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with relatives begging for beds and oxygen for loved ones – now crematoriums are also running out of space. One man who lost his wife and unborn child on the…
Endpoint Security , Governance & Risk Management , Identity & Access Management Bureau Shares Emails of Those Affected With Have I Been Pwned Breach Notification Service Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • April 27, 2021 Photo: FBI The FBI has shared 4.3 million email addresses stolen by the Emotet malware with the Have I Been…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Coveware: Average Ransom Payment Hits $220,298, Presaging More Supply Chain Attacks Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Average and median ransom payments per quarter, based on thousands of cases investigated (Source: Coveware) The zero-day attacks against Accellion File Transfer Appliance users…
Cloud Security , Security Operations Private Equity Firm Also Owns Other Security Companies, Including McAfee Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 27, 2021 Watch for updates on this developing story. See Also: Live Webinar | Empowering Financial Services with a Secure Data Path From Endpoint to Cloud Private equity firm Thoma Bravo on…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
The first emergency international assistance aimed at helping stem India’s devastating coronavirus surge arrived in India on Tuesday. But while this was a positive move, solidarity among countries needs to be a continuous thing and not just in times of crisis, the World Health Organization’s Dr Margaret Harris told BBC World News. “It would be…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Agencies Say Russia’s SVR Continues to Target Vulnerable Networks Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 26, 2021 The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are warning of continued cyberthreats stemming from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, which the…
