A new survey from Bridewell, a cybersecurity services company, found that 95% of respondents are experiencing factors that would make them likely to leave in the next 12 months. Of the 521 critical national infrastructure decision makers who were surveyed, 40% said stress could push them to leave their job with the next year. These […]
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A report released by Mandiant on June 28th found a coordinated effort to generate outrage and protests against an Australian rare earth mining company, Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. Lynas, the world’s largest rare earth mining company outside of China, is planning an expansion into Texas to extract materials which are valuable to consumer and defense […]
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Israeli cybersecurity company Check point said in a report that they had found a threat cluster, tied to the hacking group Tropic Trooper, which had been spotted using a previously undocumented malware coded in Nim language. Tropic Trooper, also known by the monikers Earth Centaur, KeyBoy, and Pirate Panda, has a track record of striking targets located […]
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Obrela Security Industries, a security analytics and cyber risk management services, has announced its sponsorship of Commix, an open-source pen-testing tool, to address command injection vulnerabilities. Obrela aims to address the emerging demand for end-to-end security services by offering an ‘umbrella’ of security solutions. George Patsis, CEO, at Obrela Security Industries said that this sponsorship […]
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The age of the password may soon be over. A survey conducted by Ping Identity and Yubico concluded that leaders of the IT industry have serious issues with the modern password-based security system. 94% of IT leaders have serious issues with user-generated passwords and half of those surveyed believe that passwords are too weak for […]
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A news release from Avera Health, a Sioux Falls-based healthcare system, confirms that a data breach in March exposed the sensitive data of 700 patients. Among the stolen information was names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and email addresses. The healthcare group learned about the data breach on March 25th yet only […]
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The Canadian legislature plans to introduce a bill on June 14th which would make the reporting of cybersecurity breaches mandatory for private-sector organizations. The legislations aims to target the underreporting of ransomware attacks which has proven to be a problem for cybersecurity regulators. According to SecOps report released by Deep Instinct, 38% of surveyed cybersecurity professionals […]
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Searchlight Security appointed Eric Milam as their new Executive Vice President of Product. Milam is a renowned cybersecurity expert who brings deep expertise in threat intelligence and research, a decisive leadership style, and a creative approach to cyber-security problem-solving and solution design. Milam has worked previously as a VP of Research & Intelligence at Blackberry […]
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On April 5th, Kaiser Permanente discovered and, within an hour, terminated an unauthorized parties’ breach into an employee’s emails from the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington. Access to these emails exposed the names, dates of service, medical record numbers, and laboratory test result information. Kaiser has so far not found any indication that the […]
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The results of the third edition of the annual Voice of SecOPs Report found that 45% of respondents in C-suite and senior cybersecurity roles were considering exiting the industry due to stress and incessant threats from ransomware. 46% of those surveyed knew someone in the past year who left due to stressors. Threats from ransomware […]
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