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Our team of security and risk analysts spent the past few months brainstorming and curating tactical and strategic advice designed to improve your security programs for 2020 and beyond… and then along came the COVID-19 global pandemic. In the midst of this, firms are undergoing a shuffle of priorities to accommodate a new normal, including […] More
IT services provider Cognizant said in an earnings call this week that a ransomware incident that took place last month in April 2020 will negatively impact its Q2 revenue. “While we anticipate that the revenue impact related to this issue will be largely resolved by the middle of the quarter, we do anticipate the revenue […] More
In January 2020, we launched our inaugural “The Future Of The CISO” report, which identified the six types of CISOs (chief information security officers) we discovered through our research. At its release, we received copious amounts of feedback — some we had considered and some we hadn’t. While we were conducting our research, however, the […] More
Offices were once a place of surprising freedom. Featured stories At least, the ones I ended up working in. People chatted, huddled and went out onto the fire escape to smoke their chosen strain of plants. As a boss, you wouldn’t be too concerned about where people actually were — even if they were in […] More
I used to recommend and use Google Authenticator for my 2SV (two-step verification) needs. But over the years, it was superseded by more advanced apps that do more and which make the security offered by 2SV more convenient. I no longer use Google Authenticator, but for those who do still use it, Google has added […] More
Imag: Mobifriends website The personal details of 3,688,060 users registered on the MobiFriends dating app have been posted online earlier this year and are now available for download. The data was obtained in a security breach that took place in January 2019, according to a hacker who initially put the data up for sale on […] More
Escondida mine is the world’s largest copper producer located in northern Chile. Image: BHP Australian mining giant BHP announced this week that it has decided to create its own COVID tracing app and would be conducting field tests in Chile next week. BHP said the app was developed by its technology and health, safety and […] More
A hacker has gained access to a Microsoft employee’s GitHub account and has downloaded some of the company’s private GitHub repositories. The intrusion is believed to have taken place in March, and came to light this week when the hacker announced plans to publish some of the stolen projects on a hacking forum. While ZDNet […] More
