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As the year draws to a close, let’s look at: What were some of the biggest breaches in 2024? What threats should you be aware of this Christmas? How can organisations stay safe during the festive season? 3 major data breaches from 2024 COMBs (compilations of many breaches) aside – like the MOAB (mother of all breaches) in January 2024, which leaked more than 26 billion records – let’s look at three major breaches from…

When Carlo Nizam joined EGA in 2021, he was tasked with leading the company’s digital transformation, a journey aimed at optimizing every aspect of the business. Carlo describes his dual role as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) as one that combines both traditional IT and digital transformation responsibilities. “We look at data as a valuable commodity. Just like refining materials in the aluminium process, we are refining data to unlock untapped potential,” Carlo explains….

Significant security risks continue to be prevalent in open source software practices, a new report by the Linux Foundation, OpenSSF and Harvard University has found. The CENSUS III project was based on 12 million observations of free and open source software (FOSS) libraries used in production apps at over 10,000 companies. It highlighted a number of concerning cybersecurity practices relating to open source software, which is widely used across all industries. The project aims to…

Tenable®, the exposure management company, today announced the release of Tenable Patch Management, an autonomous patch solution built to quickly and effectively close vulnerability exposures in a unified solution. A strategic partnership and integration with Adaptiva, a global leader in autonomous endpoint management, provides the foundation of the solution. Vulnerability remediation remains a critical challenge as identifying, testing and installing the countless patches released every day is cumbersome. A recent Tenable report found that only…

European institutions are likely to experience disruptions due to cyber-attacks in the near future, according to a report by the EU’s Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA). In its first-ever Report on the State of Cybersecurity in the Union, published on December 3, ENISA said the cyber threat level to the EU between July 2023 and June 2024 was substantial. This means that EU entities were likely directly targeted by threat actors during the reported period or could…