A panel discussion on the final day of the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference was dedicated to cybersecurity in SMEs, and in particular, practical methods these organizations can use to most effectively protect themselves from cyber-attacks. Bridget Treacy, partner, Hunton Andrews

NATO has issued a statement condemning cyber-attacks perpetrated in the midst of the ongoing global health pandemic. In particular, the organization slammed cyber-criminals who chose to target essential healthcare services, including hospitals caring for those infected with COVID-19 and medical

Password management company NordPass has urged the general public not to include people’s names in their passwords. Research released by the company found thousands of netizens worldwide are opting to protect their sensitive information with a password that includes a

A data breach has occurred at the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS), potentially exposing the personal details of 74,000 of its members to cyber-criminals. In a data breach notification filed yesterday, SFERS said that an unauthorized person had gained

Cybercriminals launched more than 130 million attacks aiming to harvest database credentials from 1.3 million WordPress sites. In this massive attack campaign, cybercriminals used several plugin and theme vulnerabilities across the WordPress ecosystem. Security researchers from Wordfence observed the attack,

Google has announced several mobile security enhancements, including adding support for the WebAuthn standard for use of the YubiKey. As part of an adoption of hardware security tokens for Apple devices, users of Google services will now be able to

Digital security and privacy company Avast has issued a warning after it discovered three VPN Apps, available on the Apple App Store, which it claimed are fraudulent and appear to be ‘fleeceware’ – apps that are not ‘malicious’ but do

The number of malicious Android apps detected in the first three months of the year is double that of the same period last year, according to new data from Upstream. The mobile technology company’s Secure-D platform discovered over 29,000 malicious

Security researchers from Talos discovered two vulnerabilities with the popular Zoom video chatting that allows a malicious user in the conference to execute arbitrary code on victims’ machines. Zoom is a popular video conferencing software across the globe that are

Recently, a group of security researchers at Citadelo has revealed a new vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director, a leading cloud service-delivery platform that could potentially allow an attacker to access sensitive data and control private clouds within the infrastructure. The

Confidential documents have been swiped from a US military nuclear missile contractor in a cyber-attack, according to Sky News. Today the news service reported that cyber-criminals were able to gain unauthorized access to the computer network of New Mexico company

Employee work from home habits are putting businesses at a higher risk of cyber-attacks, according to a study by CyberArk. It revealed that a large proportion of remote workers in the UK regularly engage in practices including using unmanaged, insecure

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is the most prominent trend in cybersecurity for 2020, according to Infosecurity Magazine’s latest State of Cybersecurity Report. As outlined in a session at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference, in the annual report, which

Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference Dr Jessica Barker, co-CEO of Cygenta, discussed the importance and effectiveness of positive reinforcement in managing the human element of risk. Dr Barker said: “Using the ‘carrot’ or rewarding people is the most

REvil /Sodinokibi ransomware operators launch an auction site to sell data stolen from victims that have chosen to not pay the ransom. Sodinokibi ransomware operators are very active in this period, a few days after the gang has leaked the

In a session at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference, a panel of security experts were asked to define the human element of risk to help organizations quantify and manage it. David Boda, head of information security at Camelot (National Lottery)