Mobile commerce has just reached another landmark milestone. For the first time ever, mobile transactions made up almost $1 of every $3 spent online during the post-Thanksgiving 2019 shopping weekend.
It has officially been over a year since the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect and in that time, we've come to see both the benefits, and the very serious drawbacks of this program.
Early this month, the Gekko Group, an AccorHotels subsidiary erroneously uploaded more than 1TB of confidential information on a publicly accessible cloud-based server. This error led to the exposure of tons of data owned by its partner hotels' clients, travel agencies, and customers.
Neustar announced today that they have commenced working with the .au Domain Administration (auDA) to increase the resilience, availability, and diversity of Australia's .au country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) zone, by adding additional DNS name servers.
An attempted ransomware attack on some Louisiana state servers caused the state's cybersecurity team to shut down their IT systems and websites. Governor John Bel Edwards, however, emphasized that not all of the state's servers were affected.
For 16 months, PayMyTab, a third-party payment provider, leaked the private data of customers who dined in a U.S. restaurant when it failed to follow a simple yet essential security protocol.
John Paul Revesz (also known as "Armada"), the Canadian behind the Orcus RAT (a software that been used in various malware attacks), has been charged under Section 342.1 of the Criminal Code on November 8. The specific section is for the unauthorized use of a computer, and at its core, this is what Revesz's Orcus software does.
On November 11, news about the massive data exposure of the clients of Orvis, a 163-year-old retailer, made headlines. Some of the company's login credentials were posted online... With over 80 retail stores, 10 outlets, and hundreds of independent dealers worldwide, we believe potential attackers could get their hands on millions of customer data.
What was supposed to be an exciting week after the launch of Disney+, a subscription-based video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service of Walt Disney Company, turned into a nightmare for thousands of users.
Highly publicized ransomware attacks are never short of golden nuggets of wisdom for the cybersecurity industry. They first teach us that attackers control the rules of the game once infiltration is complete. Second, large enterprises that use cloud-based technologies to store sensitive financial information continue to be at risk.