Research laboratories are not immune to cyberattacks. Since the beginning of the pandemic, cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems have become a greater threat, as attacks on these institutions have increased. Cybercrime is becoming a bigger issue…

Enercity, one of Germany's largest municipal energy suppliers, confirmed that it had been the target of a cyberattack. The Hannover-based company said its security systems reacted immediately, preventing greater damage. Enercity confirmed that it would…

According to researchers at Encore, over half (54%) of office workers would reconsider working for a company that had recently experienced a cyber breach. The researchers surveyed 100 C-level executives, 100 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs),…

One of the most common security flaws exploited by cybercriminals in recent months is a software flaw in Microsoft Office that is more than five years old, and it continues to be exploited because many businesses have yet to apply the available security…

A team from the National Security Agency (NSA) Georgia mentored and guided students through NSA-sponsored challenge problems at Georgia Tech's annual hackathon called HackGT. Hackathons are creative marathons where students interested in cybersecurity…

Intelligence authorities from Japan, the US, and the EU recently conducted a joint exercise to better prepare measures against cyberattacks.  The drill comes amid mounting tension in the Indo-Pacific region.  Issues related to Taiwan and North…

Leading pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) recently admitted that sensitive customer information, including medical records and credit card numbers, were stolen in a cyberattack and shared on the dark web.  The company stated…

The Securing Open Source Software Act introduced in the Senate last month is a bipartisan bill that would create a security and risk-mitigation blueprint for the federal government's use of open source software.  Google is urging the private sector…

The multinational media conglomerate, Thomson Reuters, left an open database containing sensitive customer and corporate data, including plaintext third-party server passwords. Attackers could use the information to launch a supply chain attack.…

Attackers are now targeting scanner notifications. According to Jeremy Fuchs, a researcher at the cloud email and collaboration security firm Avanan, attackers are spoofing scanner notifications to send malicious files. They send spoof scanner…

According to the latest report from email security and threat detection company Vade, the volume of phishing emails increased by 31 percent in the last quarter compared to Q2. Volumes peaked in July (79.2 million), fell in August (57.5 million), and then…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs), which are voluntary practices outlining the highest-priority baseline measures that businesses and critical infrastructure owners of all sizes can take…