The SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Research team has come across many scams in connection with COVID-19, such as an IRS economic impact payment scam, a CDC phishing scam and a medical supply scam.
Sounil Yu, former Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, will join the YL Ventures team as its full-time CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)-in-Residence.
President Donald Trump signed into law the "Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020,” and the “Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act or the Broadband DATA Act.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a COVID-19 assessment bot that can quickly assess the symptoms and risk factors for people worried about infection, provide information and suggest a next course of action such as contacting a medical provider or, for those who do not need in-person medical care, managing the illness safely at home.
Here is a list of free resources, guides, frameworks, services and products to help enterprise security to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. If your organization is offering resources and products at no cost, please email henriquezm@bnpmedia.com to be included.
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team of ethical hackers, recently discovered a data leak by the popular app Key Ring, that compromised the privacy and security of their 14 million users.
The number of new people claiming unemployment benefits totaled a staggering 6.648 million last week — doubling the record set a week earlier, the Department of Labor said recently. How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting the cybersecurity community and IT staffers?
Alan Katerinsky, cybersecurity expert and Professor of Management in Science and Systems at the University of Buffalo School of Management, provides cybersecurity tips for teleworkers during the coronavirus crisis.
New research from Infrascale indicates that 58 percent of C-level executives at small and medium businesses (SMBs) said their biggest data storage challenge is security vulnerability.
In spite of this cyber war and in an effort to be first to market, many companies still rush their products out while ignoring proper security integration during development which can lead to disastrous side effects for businesses. Costing them valuable data, reputation, money and time to amend their product weaknesses. Companies can spend a great deal of time and money developing security patches, repeatedly rolling back and implementing updates, and buying other technologies to secure their own offering. This cycle can potentially continue for years releasing cures to the latest aliments while fearing the next hit.
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