Rob Joyce Appointed Director of Cybersecurity at NSA
The U.S. National Security Agency on Friday announced that Rob Joyce, an official who is highly respected in the cybersecurity community, has been named...
Management & Strategy
Microsoft Reminds Organizations of Upcoming Phase in Patching Zerologon Vulnerability
Microsoft this week published a reminder for organizations that a February 9 security update will kick off the second phase of patching for the...
Data Protection / Endpoint Security / Fraud & Identity Theft / Incident Response / Malware / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Phishing / Virus & Malware / Virus & Threats
Facebook Takes Legal Action Against Data Scrapers
Facebook on Thursday announced that it took legal action against two individuals for scraping data from its website. In a lawsuit filed in Portugal,...
NSA Publishes Guidance for Enterprises on Adoption of Encrypted DNS
The National Security Agency (NSA) on Wednesday published guidance for businesses on the adoption of an encrypted domain name system (DNS) protocol, specifically DNS...
CISA Warns Organizations About Attacks on Cloud Services
In light of successful cyberattacks targeting organizations’ cloud services, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a series of recommendations on...
Capcom Says Personal Data of Thousands More Stolen in Ransomware Attack
Video game giant Capcom this week revealed that thousands more people than initially believed had their personal information stolen in a ransomware attack in...
Compliance / Data Protection / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy / Privacy & Compliance
EU Court Opinion Leaves Facebook More Exposed Over Privacy
Any EU country can take legal action against companies like Facebook over cross-border violations of data privacy rules, not just the main regulator in...
New Zealand Central Bank Says Accellion Service at Heart of Cyberattack
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua – says Accellion’s FTA (File Transfer Application) file sharing service was involved in a...
Hackers Publish COVID-19 Vaccine Data Stolen From EU Medicines Agency
Hackers have started leaking documents related to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines that were stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in early December 2020....
Cloud Security / Compliance / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy / Privacy & Compliance
New Resources Define Cloud Security and Privacy Responsibilities
Data protection and compliance solutions provider HITRUST has announced the release of new Shared Responsibility Matrices for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure....