Death, taxes, and hacks: How to prevent cyberattacks during tax season
Remember how folks did taxes in the olden days? They’d collect large piles of paper documents, fill out endless pages of forms, stuff a bunch of receipts in a shoebox and – …
New infosec products of the week: April 2, 2021
Elastic Security 7.12 accelerates threat hunting workflows and prevents ransomware Elastic announced new updates across the Elastic Security solution in the 7.12 release to …
5 key cybersecurity risks in 2021, and how to address them now
With an unexpected year of massive change behind us, many organizations have now an extensive remote workforce, new technologies in use, and digital transformation under way …
Encrypted method that measures encounters could slow down or prevent future pandemics
When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call that an “encounter.” That’s the scientific term for it, too. As part …
Mobile providers exposing sensitive data to leakage and theft
Data exposure is a significant, unaddressed problem for Europe’s top mobile providers and, by extension, more than 253 million customers who sign up for their services and …
The authentication and brand protection market to reach $3.7 billion by 2026
The authentication and brand protection market is projected to grow from $2.5 billion in 2021 to $3.7 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 8.3%from 2021 to 2026, according to …
VMware patches critical vRealize Operations flaws that could lead to RCE
Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-21975, CVE-2021-21983) recently patched by VMware in its vRealize Operations platform can be chained together to achieve unauthenticated remote …
Want to get around a CAPTCHA? That’ll be 0.00094c, please
Shopping or booking an appointment online can seem increasingly like busywork. Please prove that you’re not a bot: select all the photos that show traffic lights. Do some …
The growing threat to CI/CD pipelines
Before the pandemic, most modern organizations had recognized the need to innovate to support developers’ evolving workflows. Today, rapid digitalization has placed a …
SolarWinds breach severity perception increasing over time
(ISC)² has published the results of an online survey of 303 cybersecurity professionals from around the globe in which respondents compared their perception of the severity of …
Why passwords are to blame for loss of revenue, identity attrition and poor customer experiences
Transmit Security has released a state of customer authentication report that includes customer experience insights based on its survey of 600 U.S. consumers. According to the …
Worldwide 5G connections to reach 619 million by the end of 2021
5G networks are now nearing a critical mass of global commercial network deployments and subscribers, suggesting a rapid upward curve of technology adoption over the next few …
