WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook, says it's ready to launch its digital payment services, WhatsApp Pay, in India following its beta test. But the Supreme Court says WhatsApp first must comply with RBI's data localization requirements.
Hackers have repeatedly stolen valuable data - including launch codes and flight trajectories for spacecraft - from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in recent years, according to a new inspector general audit, which describes weak security practices.
Xenotime, the group suspected of launching the Trisis malware attack in Saudi Arabia during 2017, has over the past few months shifted its focus beyond the oil and gas industry to target electrical plants and utilities, security firm Dragos reports.
Not all that crashes has been hacked. To wit, this past weekend there were multiple major outages, including much of Argentina and Uruguay going dark, as well as U.S. retailer Target's system problems leaving customers unable to pay for goods. But none of these outages were due to cyberattacks.
As the IT infrastructure evolves and becomes far more complex, security needs to be built in, not bolted on later, says VIjendra Katiyar of Trend Micro.
Cybersecurity is a priority for the second term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As he completed his cabinet ministry appointments, he instructed the ministers to take up initiatives that can help build a cyber-resilient nation.
The White House budget chief is seeking to delay a ban on the U.S. government using products manufactured by Huawei. In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence, Russell T. Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, says organizations need more time to switch suppliers.
In an exclusive video interview, India's cybersecurity coordinator, Lt. Gen. (Retired) Dr. Rajesh Pant, spells out his priorities, including creating of a new national cybersecurity policy.
Ransomware attacks, such as WannaCry and Petya, in which data is encrypted until a ransom is paid, are trending upward. As noted in the 2018 ISTR, although the number of ransomware families has decreased year over year, the number of ransomware variants has increased by 46 percent. This indicates criminal groups may...
One of the most famous security breaches in recent memory, the hack of the US Democratic National Convention email server, was conducted via fileless attack. The hack was comprised of targeted emails from seemingly legitimate sources that contained links to infected web pages, which subsequently allowed hackers to...
Perhaps the most important measure that an organization can take is to shift its perspective on cybersecurity from one that focuses simply on perimeter defenses to one that also limits the dwell time of an attacker
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As the volume and speed of network data increases, security
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It's time to face a hard truth: Modern enterprise networks can be extremely sometimes
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