During a M&A process, the scope of the organization’s attack surface is stretched to new limits. Every company, from Fortune 500s to smaller enterprises, has digital baggage that can dramatically increase potential security risks, from multiple generations of technologies, various IT stacks, and new and unknown risks in their environments.
With autonomous vehicles gaining mainstream attention, the challenges that come with the tech are being scrutinized. The biggest of these is the threat of hacking.
Despite the potential for visual hacking to take place in public, only 30% of business travelers say that their organizations have educated them on how to protect sensitive information.
Bloomberg reported that Chinese spies planted a grain-sized microchip in motherboards supplied to server manufacturers in an alleged supply chain attack. What are the lessons for enterprises?
There’s a disturbing trend in boardrooms that’s leaving corporations completely exposed. CPOs and CIOs are sidelined, ignored and forgotten by the rest of the C-suite as executives believe that the battle between CPOs and hackers is removed from day-to-day business operations.
The popularity of online gaming surged during the COVID-19 pandemic—and so did cyberattacks against gamers with 5.8 million attacks detected over the past year. Cybercriminals are becoming experts in deception which makes them increasingly difficult to detect.
New report shows nearly 75 percent of U.S. federal agencies are still woefully unprepared and deemed to be “at risk” or “at high risk” of a cyber attack.
U.S. federal agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory over cyber threats targeting water facilities and wastewater treatment plants threatening water safety and availability.
According to U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, the U.S. is at “a critical point.” With Russian hackers breaking into the U.S. power grid and gaining access to utility control rooms, they have the opportunity to “throw the switch”, plunging the nation into darkness and chaos.
While many people are struck with fear, they also seem paralyzed as they look for what they can do about online threats, cyber crime and control over their data privacy.