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SC Magazine  Malwarebytes researchers spotted what they called the “perfect storm” of ransomware, malvertising, phishing attacks, and other malware following the breach of a popular forum dedicated to “Celebgate” leaked nude photos. Vann Abernethy,  our field chief technology officer, said users shouldn’t rush to pay ransoms if they get infected with ransomware. To read the full article, please […]

Continuity  Central New EU data protection rules were given their final approval by MEPs on Thursday and the countdown for European-based organizations to manage the compliance risk has started. The European Parliament’s vote ends more than four years of work on a complete overhaul of EU data protection rules. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of […]

CCR Magazine The European Parliament passed the final vote for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These approved new data protection rules will strengthen online privacy, streamline legislation between the 28 member states and boost police and security cooperation. Notably, the regulation includes tougher penalties for companies in breach of EU data protection law, […]

Compute Scotland  The European Parliament has passed the final vote for the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). These approved new data protection rules will strengthen online privacy, streamline legislation between the 28 member states and boost police and security cooperation. Alex Cruz Farmer, our VP of Cloud comments, “This is a great step towards […]

Global Security Magazine During a gathering of World Congress of Crimean Tatars, and an international conference on Mass Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Crimea on Monday April 11, the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) website suffered a cyber attack. Cerniauskas also confirmed that the so-called DDoS attack had been carried out from at least 10,000 computers […]

Security Week Hackers breached the systems of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca and leaked a large number of documents that appear to show how politicians, businessmen and other public figures from across the world used offshore companies to hide their income and avoid paying taxes. Aftab Afzal, our SVP & GM EMEA said that as […]

SC Magazine The entire database of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC), including passport info and fingerprint data was breached according to the Philippine government. Aftab Afzal, our senior vice president EMEA said that the breach highlights just how critical it is to have in-depth data / network security polices, processes, tools with real world risk registers. He also […]

SC Magazine A trio of security researchers has demonstrated how Google’s reCAPTCHA technology can be broken. The technology is used by Google, Facebook and others to protect websites against spam and abuse. According to a research paper, the researchers managed to identify flaws in the technology that would enable hackers to influence the risk analysis, […]

Cyber Security Trend Featured article by Stephen Gates A DDoS attack is blatantly illegal anywhere, and distressingly common everywhere. In fact, by most analysts’ estimates, it’s getting worse—every online enterprise is worried about this assault, or at least should be.  Of course, some things have changed: The parties involved, the strategies deployed, the technologies used, […]

Infosecurity Magazine A breach of the Turkish national database has confirmed that it contains personal information of around 50 million people. Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of Cloud said that at the time of writing, the validity of the data has not been confirmed, but it could go down as one of the largest data breaches […]