Accenture has acquired a privately held Philadelphia company specializing in enterprise cybersecurity for information technology and operational technology environments. Global professional services company Accenture announced its acquisition of Revolutionary Security on April 7. The financial terms of the deal were

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new IoT botnet, tracked as Dark Nexux, that is used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Dark Nexux is the name of a new emerging IoT botnet discovered by Bitdefender that is used to launch DDoS

A quarter of organizations have suffered a breach related to their application development process over the past year, with most of these coming via open source components, according to Sonatype. The DevOps automation firm’s 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey is based

Over 350,000 Exchange servers around the world are still exposed to a critical vulnerability patched by Microsoft in February and actively being exploited in the wild, according to Rapid7. The security vendor deployed its Project Sonar scanning apparatus to find

Europe’s data protection tsar has called for a pan-EU COVID-19 health tracking app to avoid fragmented member state approaches which may not follow privacy-by-design principles. European data protection supervisor (EDPS), Wojciech Wiewiorowski, said his team is already cooperating with other

The internet is proving to be the most valuable resource at the moment, and opportunities will await those who adapt and are more prepared. Speaking as part of the Akamai Edge conference, delivered as a virtual summit, Andy Ellis, CSO

The drug testing firm Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), which performs live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, discloses a data breach. Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), a London-based company that carries out clinical trials for new medicines and that is on standby to

The Android XHelper malware was first identified in October 2019, it is known for its persistent capabilities. Once it gets installed to the device, the malware remains active even after the user deletes it and restore the factory settings. The

In the latest sorry COVID-19 scam, fraudsters are impersonating financial institutions to steal from Americans expecting stimulus checks from the US federal government. Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, many Americans have been furloughed, fired, or had their hours

xHelper, a new strain of Android malware is able to re-install itself on infected devices even after victims delete it or force a factory reset. xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from

New research has found that the Linux platform has been under attack from Chinese threat groups for a decade. The “Decade of the RATs Research Report,” published today by BlackBerry, reveals how five Chinese APT groups targeted Linux servers, Windows

UK businesses could save up to GBP1.3bn by purchasing cybersecurity products and services from a more diverse range of suppliers, according to a study by Cynapse. It suggests that shopping around for cybersecurity services, thereby democratizing the market, would be

A new report from the Ponemon Institute has revealed that just 24% of organizations focus on optimizing cyber-attack prevention capabilities, despite 70% of security professionals believing that the ability to effectively prevent attacks strengthens security posture. The research report, The

Microsoft recently patched a remote code execution vulnerability with Microsoft Exchange Server that allows an attacker to use an Exchange user account to compromise the system completely. The bug resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, which can be

Rising threat levels and remote working challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic are putting increased pressure on IT security professionals, according to new data from Check Point. The vendor polled over 400 respondents from global organizations with over 500 employees

INTERPOL has been forced to issue an alert to global police about the heightened risk of ransomware attacks on hospitals and other front-line organizations as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The law enforcement organization said it issued a Purple Notice