Credit building company LOQBOX has announced the appointment of Tim Porter as its new chief risk officer (CRO).
Porter brings more than 30 years of experience in international banking, finance and consultancy to the role having previously held positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, Impact Plus...
Home Depot has reached a $17.5m settlement with 46 US states and Washington, D.C. regarding its 2014 data breach.
In the breach, the payment card data of 40 million customers was accessed by attackers between April 10 and September 13. That breach, which was uncovered by Brian Krebs, was...
Organizations need to work out how to apply the principle of zero-trust security to meet their specific requirements, according to a panel speaking at the DTX Cyber Security Mini Summit.
The concept of zero-trust has come into much sharper focus as a result of the shift to remote working during...
A greater focus on employee training is the foundation to organizations tackling a fast-changing cyber-threat landscape, according to Rayad Jawaheer, sales engineer at Bitdefender, speaking during the DTX Cyber Security Mini Summit.
The shift to remote working since the start of the COVID-19...
A Canadian doctor who is being bullied online over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic has called for people to treat each other with kindness and respect.
The receipt of online threats has been an issue for the medical officer of health for the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Dr. Wajid...
Alleged members of a Nigerian cybercrime gang that compromised 500,000 companies and government organizations in more than 150 countries have been arrested.
The arrests were made in Lagos as part of the year-long, INTERPOL-led Operation Falcon targeting cyber-criminals who use business email...
Phishing and social media/email hacks are the most frequently reported cybercrimes in the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively, according to new research by cybersecurity company Clario and British cross-party think-tank Demos.
The finding was included in "The Great Cyber...
French IT services giant Sopra Steria has admitted a ransomware attack on its systems last month is likely to cost the company tens of millions of dollars.
The Paris-headquartered firm, which is a supplier to the UK’s NHS, was hit by a new variant of the infamous Ryuk family, forcing systems...
UK government security experts are urging organizations to rapidly patch a remote code execution flaw in MobileIron products being actively exploited in the wild by nation state groups.
The notice from GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) explained that CVE-2020-15505, which affects the...
Security experts are warning that a new ransomware group is rapidly escalating threat activity, with double extortion attacks on scores of victims so far in Q4.
The Egregor group first came to light with an attack on Barnes & Noble and video game developers Ubisoft and Crytek back in October...
Cyber-protection firm Acronis has announced that it is collaborating with the World Economic Forum (WEF) Center for Cybersecurity to address rising cybercrime around the globe.
The WEF Center for Cybersecurity is an independent and impartial global platform focused on fostering international...
