A lack of trained doctors, nurses and support staff is affecting the ability of large scale hospitals to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, a doctor treating coronavirus patients in the state of Gujarat has said. Dr Devashish Palkar, who is in his final year of training to be a psychiatrist told BBC World News that…
As coronavirus vaccine programmes are rolled out, governments around the world are looking for ways to ease us back into pre-pandemic life – getting people back to sporting fixtures, theatres and other crowded public places. One solution being considered is a digital Covid-19 “vaccine passport” but many have called them discriminatory and some say it…
Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security Social Media Giant Says 2 Groups Were Conducting Cyberespionage Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • April 25, 2021 Facebook says it has disrupted the activities of two Palestinian advanced persistent threat groups that targeted victims across the Middle East as part of cyberespionage campaigns. See…
A threat actor has leaked approximately 20 million BigBasket user records containing personal information and hashed passwords on a popular hacking forum. BigBasket is a popular Indian online grocery delivery service that allows people to shop online for food and deliver it to their homes. This morning, a well-known seller of data breaches known as…
Personal information of 20 million BigBasket users is now available online for anyone to download and use BigBasket is one of most popular grocery delivery companies in India HIGHLIGHTS : BigBasket’s alleged database included personal details of affected users The database has been leaked by a hacker known as ShinyHunters BigBasket has not yet confirmed…
Proofpoint to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $12.3B | IT Security News 26. April 2021 The cybersecurity company will go private following the all-cash transaction. Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags: Dark Reading: Sponsors Endpoint Cybersecurity www.endpoint-cybersecurity.com – Consulting in building your security products– Employee awareness training– Security tests for applications and pentesting… and…
A new report by researchers at a German university suggests that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth powered Apple-to-Apple data transfer tech could expose your phone number and email address to a stranger who is in Wi-Fi range. All the stranger would need to do is be in range. Technische Universitat Darmstadt researchers suggest that simply opening…
Click Studios, the Australian software house that develops the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, has warned customers to reset passwords across their organizations after a cyberattack on the password manager. An email sent by Click Studios to customers said the company had confirmed that attackers had “compromised” the password manager’s software update feature in order to…
More M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint, the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 billion in cash. Proofpoint is traded publicly on the Nasdaq exchange and as of its closing price on Friday, it had a market cap of $7.5…
In December 2020, the world discovered that the SolarWinds’ Orion Platform had been compromised by cybercriminals, potentially affecting thousands of businesses the world over. Security groups such as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provided advice and guidance to security teams and IT companies on what actions they should take to minimize the impact on…
