Almost 80% of US companies have suffered at least one cloud security breach over the past 18 months, with misconfiguration the number one concern among CISOs, according to Ermetic. The cloud security vendor commissioned IDC to interview 300 US cybersecurity

Security experts are warning of growing dark web demand for access to users’ YouTube accounts. Etay Maor, CSO at cyber-intelligence firm IntSights, explained that in recent weeks his team has noticed an uptick in demand for stolen credentials for prominent

A prolific ransomware group has begun auctioning data stolen from victim organizations that refuse to pay up, marking an escalation in its monetization efforts. The gang behind the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) variant this week took to its dark web blog

Recently, security researchers have discovered a very distinct software bug that is marked as a very critical software bug, as it turns an airplane in the wrong way. Nav Canada firstly identified this bug in 2017 on a Bombardier CRJ-200,

Several flaws in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have been exploited by Russia-linked hackers, hundreds of thousands of servers are still unpatched. Russia-linked threat actors have exploited several vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) in their campaigns.

New York City’s cybersecurity bootcamp partner is offering free introductory training courses to all American citizens. Fullstack Cyber Bootcamp hopes that the initiative will encourage some of the 41 million Americans currently claiming state or federal unemployment benefits to forge

US security company WatchGuard Technologies has concluded the acquisition of Spanish cybersecurity solutions provider Panda Security. WatchGuard announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Panda in March 2020. Three months on, 30-year-old company Panda is now a wholly

A Virginia software company specializing in cloud-based solutions has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Exostar was developed as a joint venture between some of the world’s leading businesses, including BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon,

Enterprise mobile phishing encounters increased by 37% in the first quarter of 2020 compared with quarter four of 2019, according to the Lookout 2020 State of Mobile Phishing Spotlight Report. The rate of growth was especially high in North America,

The fourth year of the government-backed online cybersecurity training program Cyber Discovery will begin earlier than planned. Capitalizing on the thousands of young people who are currently unable to attend school, Cyber Discovery officially opened registration today to allow students

Thycotic, a provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions, has acquired fellow PAM solution provider Onion ID to extend its PAM coffering. With the acquisition, Thycotic adds three new products to its PAM portfolio to further protect enterprise cloud apps

Security experts are warning of a potential deluge of mobile SMS-based phishing (smishing) attacks as the UK’s Test and Trace service launches to mitigate a potential second wave of COVID-19 infections. The government scheme will require contact tracers to proactively

Law enforcement activity over recent years is eroding trust on the dark web and forcing cyber-criminals to try new tactics, according to new Trend Micro research. The security vendor’s latest report, Shifts in Underground Markets, charts changes over the past

A security researcher has been awarded $100,000 by Apple after disclosing a critical flaw in the firm’s sign-in process for third-party sites. Bhavuk Jain discovered the zero-day bug in Sign in with Apple, the Cupertino giant’s supposedly more privacy-centric version

Joomla is a popular free and open-source content management system used for publishing web content. The team behind the CMS discloses the data breach last week. The incident happens after a team member left an unencrypted full backup of the

The hackers behind the TrickBot Malware has updated their new propagation module known as “Nwrom.” As people are very familiar with the TrickBot malware, but this time, it appears with a new propagation module. Now many of you must be