Category: Cybersecurity
Google Cloud Unveils New Service for Government Workloads
Google this week announced Assured Workloads for Government, a new Google Cloud service meant to address some of the unique challenges faced by govern [...]
Top Court Scraps EU-US Data Pact in New Blow to Brussels
A crucial online data arrangement between Europe and the US was invalidated on Thursday, as a top EU court decision over Facebook threw trans-Atlantic [...]
Experts Say Twitter Breach Troubling, Undermines Trust
A breach in Twitter’s security that allowed hackers to break into the accounts of leaders and technology moguls is one of the worst attacks in recent [...]
Seven Ransomware Families Target Industrial Software
A total of seven ransomware families have been found to target processes associated with operational technology (OT) software, and FireEye this week p [...]
Data Governance and Security Provider Privacera Raises $13.5 Million
Cloud data governance and security solutions provider Privacera this week announced that it raised $13.5 million in a Series A founding round.
Founded [...]
Hackers Used Internal Twitter Tools to Hijack High-Profile Accounts
Twitter has confirmed that hackers leveraged internal tools to take over high-profile accounts and use them to post scam tweets.
The attack resulted i [...]
More Countries Waking up to Huawei Threats, US Say
A growing number of countries are recognizing the threat to data privacy from using mobile technology from the Chinese giant Huawei, and are likely to [...]
Industrial Cybersecurity Firm Claroty Releases Open Source Database Parser
Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty this week announced the availability of AccessDB Parser, an open source tool that allows researchers to analyze [...]
Twitter Confirms ‘Security Incident’ Involving Hacked Accounts
Twitter said it is working to fix a "security incident" after scammers hijacked high-profile accounts on Wednesday to dupe people out of money.
"We a [...]
Twitter Accounts of Apple, Musk, Gates, Others Hit in Major Hack
The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cr [...]
