Telecommunications Bill, 2023, tabled in the Lok Sabha by communications minister Ashwini Vaishnaw The Telco sector is an industry undergoing significant change. We have seen how these organizations have shifted from traditional business models, as carriers of voice and data connectivity, to enablers of sophisticated technology. CISOs are being provided broader responsibility and accountability to…
70% of Iran’s gas stations went out of service on Monday following possible sabotage a reference to cyber attacks, Iranian state TV reported. The report said a “software problem” caused the irregularity in the gas stations. It urged people not to rush to the stations that were still operational. Israeli media, including the Times of…
Kaspersky researchers discovered a severe vulnerability in the implementations of the Bluetooth protocol across several popular operating systems: Android, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Linux. This bug potentially allows remote hacking of vulnerable devices without any particular actions required on the part the user. Let’s dive into the details. As per reserachers the Bluetooth vulnerability allows you…
Firmware attacks pose challenge to organization Binarly Research Team was working on project LogoFAIL, which was picked up by them just to have some fun, turned into a mammoth industry-wide disclosure and uncovered massive flaws. While organizations are implementing different security solutions at different scales & levels and globally security vendors are advancing their security…
Microsoft hires Igor Tsyganskiy, as CISO who who previously served as CTO and President at asset management giant Bridgewater Associates. Tsyganskiy, who joined Redmond just four months ago, will take over the CISO responsibilities from Bret Arsenault and help guide the company through a new “Secure Future Imitative” that promises faster cloud patches, better management of…
The battle against ransomware attacks has intensified during the April 2022 through April 2023 period, as proven by the key findings in this year’s report from Zscaler Cloud. As per Zscaler cloud, ransomware attacks witnessed a staggering 37.75% increase, signaling a growing threat to organizations worldwide. Worse, the payloads observed in the Zscaler sandbox surged…
Sophos has started the early access program (EAP) for Sophos DNS Protection for networks. This new cloud-based service is part of our growing suite of Secure Access Service Edge products and services, expanding upon what we started with Sophos ZTNA and Sophos SD-WAN Orchestration. Enhanced internet and web security Sophos DNS Protection adds another layer…
As organizations continue to migrate data to the cloud, where and how data is handled is becoming an important consideration. WithSecure’s Cloud Protection for Salesforce, a trusted, natively integrated solution that prevents attacks via files and URLs uploaded to Sales force Clouds is helping its customers manage these considerations by allowing them to select where…
Genetic testing company revealed of data breach affecting 23andMe users that was disclosed earlier this fall. The company says its investigation found hackers were able to access information from 14,000 userbase. Based on its investigation hackers had accessed 0.1% of its customer base. When the breach was first revealed in October, the company said its investigation…
The Bengaluru police cyber crime unit has busted an interstate cyber fraud network which had opened several benami accounts (mule accounts) to carry out cyber frauds. The police have arrested six accused of which, five are from Kerala and one hails from Karnataka. The group used to trap innocent people, especially petty workers in the…
