The White House Is Deciding Whether to Support a Bureau of Cyber Statistics

Washington: Websites run by the ransomware gang REvil suddenly became unreachable on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), sparking widespread speculation that the group had been knocked offline. The Russia-linked cybercrime ring has collected tens of millions of dollars in ransom payments in return for restoring computer systems it has hacked. In recent weeks it claimed responsibility for…

Brandon Rochat, Sales Director: Africa, Cybereason. Ransomware is one of the biggest cyber security threats globally. It is estimated that there is a ransomware attack on a business every 11 seconds on average, with global ransomware damage losses projected to reach $20 billion this year. According to PurpleSec’s 2021 Cyber Security Trends report, cyber crime…

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Information Handled by the Police Department Exposed Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 25, 2021     The city of Tulsa issued a warning this week that a ransomware group that attacked the city in May leaked more than 18,000…

Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details about 13 vulnerabilities in the Nagios network monitoring application that could be abused by an adversary to hijack the infrastructure without any operator intervention. “In a telco setting, where a telco is monitoring thousands of sites, if a customer site is fully compromised, an attacker can use the vulnerabilities to compromise…

As per the research 7 in 10 Indian adults (70%) believe that remote work has made it much easier for hackers and cybercriminals to take advantage of people 52% adults admitted that they don’t know how to protect themselves from cybercrime, according to a survey by online security solutions provider NortonLifeLock. 59% of adults in…

3rd Party Risk Management , Breach Notification , Cybercrime Flaw in Network Traffic Security Management Platform Ranked as Highly Critical Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 21, 2021     Attackers are exploiting a critical remote code vulnerability in F5 Networks’ BIG-IP platform, tracked as CVE-2021-22986, for which the company released patches on March 10. See…