Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
, the global leader in behavioural biometrics, has introduced a new offering to help protect consumers from phone scams known as vishing, a type of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, in response to the growing vishing epidemic. Vishing, which involve…
Continue ReadingThis CIO’s experience is not special either. I talked with five agency CIOs and IT executives and all confirmed that cybersecurity is not being neglected, ignored or suffering from the partial shutdown — so, calm down folks. “If security is a problem, …
Continue ReadingAttackers took advantage of a bank employee to penetrate their computer infrastructure. Redbanc , a company responsible for administering the interbank ATM network in Chile, suffered a serious cybersecurity incident, reported network security and ethic…
Continue ReadingUK hit with 30m cyberattacks in just three months
Almost 30m cyberattacks were carried out in the UK during Q4 2018 according to new research from the cybersecurity firm Cybercriminals favoured web browsers as their primary method for spreading malici…
Continue ReadingLast week, Chilean Senator Felipe Harboe took to Twitter with alarming news – he had got wind that the company running the country’s ATM inter-bank network, Redbanc, had suffered a serious cyberattack at the end of December. Two days later, not long be…
Continue ReadingPSC has hired 3 Redditors using /netsec’s quarterly Information Security Hiring Thread. Come join the team! Yeah, we do PCI. From PSC’s perspective, there should be no differences between a PCI engagement and any other penetration test. It might be tru…
Continue ReadingLee Coward, the head of Information Technology wing of NHS said that the health care services provider has witnessed higher volumes of identified cyber attacks than other firms in recent years. But at the same time, he reasserted that the issue was sma…
Continue ReadingPhishing campaigns continue to dominate the global cybercrime arena. While issues like ransomware, cryptocurrency mining and state-sponsored attacks make the media headlines, it’s the lower-level cyberattacks that are impacting the most businesses arou…
Continue ReadingThe world is in a state of flux as ongoing political turmoil and the accelerating pace of change brought by powerful new technologies continue to disrupt the status quo. And as our lives become increasingly digitised, the matter of cybersecurity is gai…
Continue Reading“With the government shutdown dragging past the month mark, there is an element of cyber security that is not being talked about. The media focus has been around increasing criminal activity, non-renewed certificates and failed patching. What we aren’t…
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