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The US National Security Agency (NSA) has warned enterprises that adoption of encrypted DNS services can lead to a false sense of security and even disrupt their own DNS-monitoring tools. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) has become an increasingly popular way to improve privacy and integrity by protecting...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum are set to be the next major technology disruptors and will have a profound impact on the cybersecurity sector, according to speakers in a session at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021. Advancements in these areas are likely to lead to new...

An annual religious service held in Atlanta in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day was disrupted by a cyber-attack. Threat actors reportedly targeted a Shabbat service that was being broadcast live over the internet from Atlanta synagogue The Temple on January 15. The attack occurred as US...

The number of suspicious domains that feature the word "vaccine" in their title increased by almost 100% in the month after the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was given outside of a clinical trial. British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the vaccine on...

New research by New Zealand company Emsisoft has found that a cyber-blackmail tactic first debuted by ransomware gang MAZE has been adopted by over a dozen other criminal cyber-gangs. The internationally renowned security software company declared a ransomware crisis in the last month of 2019...

A quarter (25%) of company directors are prevented from delivering cybersecurity training to staff by budgetary constraints, according to iomart’s Cybersecurity Insights Report. The survey of UK-based workers across C-level, director, manager and employee level, found that 28% of businesses...

Malwarebytes has confirmed that the SolarWinds attackers managed to access internal emails, although via a different intrusion vector to many victims. While many of the organizations caught up in the suspected Russian cyber-espionage campaign were compromised via a malicious SolarWinds Orion...

More than three-quarters of applications in the retail and hospitality sector contain at least one vulnerability, with a high percentage of these requiring urgent attention, according to Veracode. The application security vendor analyzed more than 130,000 applications to compile its latest...

Today, January 20 2021, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the Unites States of America. He and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on the West Front of the US Capitol. The Inauguration Day celebrations will take place in unprecedented...

The growing importance of ethical hacking in protecting organizations against the current threat landscape was discussed by a panel speaking during a HackerOne webinar entitled ‘Hacker Powered Security Predictions for 2021 EMEA.’ Moderator Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, firstly emphasized how...

The United States Marine Corps today announced the creation of a Marine Corps’ Adversarial Cyber Assessment "Blue Team" (MCAT). A Blue Team is a group of people who identify security threats and risks in the operating environment and analyze the network environment and its current state of...

A former executive of Google subsidiary Waymo, imprisoned in the United States for stealing a trade secret and sharing it with rival company Uber, has been pardoned by outgoing president Donald Trump. On March 19, 2020, Anthony Scott Levandowski pleaded guilty to one of 33 counts of trade...

Two women in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with a year-long cybercrime operation involving stolen identities and fraudulent benefit claims. An investigation was launched by police in West Buechel at the beginning of January when they received a call from a local branch of the bank...

Multinational technology company Thales and global provider of engineered electronics for performance critical applications TT Electronics have announced a partnership to enable the development of operational technology cybersecurity initiatives and research. These programs will be delivered...

The UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) experienced an 18% rise in personal data loss incidents in the financial year 2019/20, according to official figures analyzed by the Parliament Street Think Tank. The UK government’s defense department revealed there were 546 reported incidents of personal...

The United States National Security Agency has announced the appointment of Roy Joyce as the new leader of its Cybersecurity Directorate. Joyce will take over from Anne Neuberger, who was first to lead the NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate when it was established in October 2019. Neuberger was...

An American health insurer has agreed to pay $5.1m to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. The agreement entered...

EEMA, the leading independent European think tank focused on identity, privacy and trust, has announced the appointment of Steve Pannifer to its board of management. Pannifer, who is chief operations officer at Consult Hyperion, is renowned for his expertise in the field of digital identity...

The United States has withdrawn an extradition request for an Irish hacker convicted of breaking into virtual wallets to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Conor Freeman was identified by US Homeland Security as one of at least five co-conspirators involved in a string of digital...

The past year has seen double-digit increases in the value of GDPR fines imposed by regulators and the volume of breaches notified to regulators, according to a new analysis by DLA Piper. The international law firm said that €158.5m ($192m, £141m) in fines was imposed since January 28 2020, a...