The healthcare industry has historically been a primary target of cyber-attacks. According to the 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report by IBM and Ponemon Institute, Healthcare breach costs hit a new record high. The average breach in healthcare increased by nearly USD 1 million...
The business world is technologically advancing and becoming more data-oriented. It has become the need of the hour for organizations to leverage information technology optimally to improve their operational efficiency, gather more data for analytics, and empower their workforce. With new industry standards and regulatory requirements...
In today’s digital economy, data has become an incredibly important asset, and collecting and sharing data has become a herculean task for businesses to manage. As businesses collect growing amounts of information on their customers, those customers have begun to see the potential downsides to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has expedited the transition to remote work and the digitalization of business. Hybrid workforces and virtual engagements are the new norms. These new ways of conducting business have led cyber incidents to proliferate. In today’s digital economy, data is the most valuable asset a...
Cisco has confirmed a breach of its network in May 2022, where the attackers managed to gain access to the company's virtual private network (VPN) via employee's Google account.The attacker compromised a Cisco employee's personal Google account, which gave them access to his business credentials...
On July 19th, 2022, DARK Reading posted an article regarding the exposure and possible risk for password theft on Okta’s platform. Here is an excerpt from the article: "Identity services provider Okta is facing serious security flaws, researchers contend, that could easily let an attacker gain...
In the post pandemic era, where enterprises are looking forward to hybrid workforce, IT Security admin face a challenging task of providing authorized access to resources. Enterprises want reliable and easy-to-use IAM tools —while ensuring that the user experience is not compromised. An Identity and Access...
Last few weeks have been hyperactive for security responders. First Okta Lapsus attack and now MailChimp threatens to shake the confidence of the businesses relying on cloud services. Mailchimp attack primarily used social engineering to get MailChimp employee credentials to get in the door. Target: Highly...
In the past week, we have learned of the Lapsus$ okta breach but new information keeps coming out daily. There have been reports that Lapsus staff had an unencrypted, unprotected spreadsheet full of domain admin passwords lying around on the network. This is a big no-no...
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert related state sponsored hackers. State sponsored hackers were found to successfully gain entry into Non Government Organization (NGO) by combining two known exploits. Hackers have combined default configuration issue in Duo MFA with critical Windows 10...
According to the latest data breach report by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a data breach in 2021 is US$ 4.24 million, this is a 10% rise from the average cost in 2019 which was $3.86 million. The average cost was $1.07 million higher in breaches where...
FBI has shared that at least 3 Critical Infrastructure compaies are breached by Blackbyte ransomware. Target industries may include government agencies, financial services, food and agriculture etc. Blackbyte is a ransomware as a service (RaaS) group that encrypts files on windows host systems incluidng physical...
