In the United States, the number of cybercrime incidents, including online fraud, has increased significantly in the past few years, from around 467,000 in 2019 to more than 880,000 in 2023. Accordingly, the monetary losses caused by cyber criminals have also seen a spike from 3.5 billion ...
NIS 2 expands the scope of its predecessor to address more recent cybersecurity challenges and threats, as criminals have found new ways to hack companies and compromise their sensitive data. The directive applies to organizations that operate within the EU and provide essential services to cons...
The term “computer hacker” refers to an individual or group of individuals skilled in manipulating computer systems, often breaking through layers of security to achieve their goals. These goals can range from exploring systems out of curiosity, stealing sensitive data and defacing websites to ill...
Let’s see how cybercrime evolved in Denmark, what are the major cybersecurity incidents that changed the game, the types of cyberattacks that affected the country, and what are the next measures to take.Types of Cyberattacks on Business in Denmark Between 2017-2020...
However, in other cases, hackers made money from the data that was not even breached but scraped – as is evident in the recent April and July’s Linkedin scraping incidents, which affected 500 million users each. According to the study, data scraping raises deep concerns, even though it ...
What are the telltale signs that it’s time to reevaluate your cybersecurity strategy? Security & GRCSecurity Strategy & Roadmap Director of Information Security in Healthcare and Biotecha month agoBreach, too many critical incidents, high volume of clicks to phi...
security events, including user entity behavior analysis (UEBA) and security orchestration automation response (SOAR). UEBA helps organizations notice abnormal behaviors, such as logins from unusual locations. SOAR assists with the actual response to cybersecurity incidents. A SIEM can also automate ...
As of December, approximately 83,295 individuals have been internally displaced in West Papua due to armed conflicts between Indonesian security forces and the West Papua Liberation Army (TPNPB). Recent reports detail new instances of displacement in the Tambrauw and Pegunungan Bintang regencies foll...
Perhaps the HAL 9000 computer of 2001 fame said it best, “It can only be attributable to human error.” At least that is the sentiment that one gets while reading IBM’s recentSecurity Services 2014 Cyber Security Intelligence Indexreport. ...
Unless businesses can beat hackers at their own game, cybersecurity incidents will continue to escalate in frequency and severity.