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According to recent data from the Identity Theft Resource Center, there was a 14% increase in data breaches and compromises in the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2021. What’s more — this is the third consecutive year where breaches have increased in Q1. With cyberattacks becoming increasingly common, the importance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated. One of the best ways to ensure security? Multi-factor authentication, or MFA. Multi-factor authentication requires users to provide two…

Resecurity, Inc. (USA) has identified a spike in phishing content delivered via Azure Front Door (AFD), a cloud CDN service provided by Microsoft. The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonated various services appearing to be legitimately created on the “azurefd.net” domain. This allows the bad actors to trick users and spread phishing content to intercept credentials from business applications and e-mail accounts. Notably, most phishing resources were designed to target SendGrid, Docusign…

“We want our customers to know that achieving zero carbon emissions isn’t our final goal, it’s just part of the journey. We want to continue improving the energy efficiency of our data centers, generate renewable energy on site, and integrate circular economy concepts into the lifecycle of our IT equipment and our operations. Corporate climate change discussions typically focus on customers, regulations, and efforts to reduce costs, which of course are all important. But it’s…

Enterprises that have adopted automation across their organizations—including development, IT operations, and business teams—often find it is difficult to scale their automations due to manual or old testing methods. This can create further delays that prevent the automations from scaling properly, thus defeating the purpose of many process automation and digital transformation efforts. In addition, software testing groups are often thought of as a cost center, rather than a group that can add value to…

  Nitin Bhatnagar: Hello, listeners. Welcome to Coffee with the Council, where we discuss what’s happening around the payment industry globally and bring a regional perspective to our audience. I’m your host, Nitin Bhatnagar, Associate Director of India for the PCI Security Standards Council. Today, we will be talking about PCI DSS v4.0, a perspective from India, with our special guests Swati Sharma, Leader, CISO Office, Amazon Pay; Dhananjay Khanna SVP and CISO of SBI…

An unidentified hacker group has stolen more than $100m from Californian cryptocurrency firm Harmony. The company made the announcement last Thursday in a Twitter thread, saying they had identified a theft occurring on the Horizon bridge amounting to approximately $100m. “We have begun working with national authorities and forensic specialists to identify the culprit and retrieve the stolen funds,” reads the first Twitter post. Further, Harmony published the cryptocurrency address of the malicious actor and reassured customers the rest…

A group of Russia-affiliated hackers acting under the banner of Killnet hit several Lithuanian government websites last week. According to a video message published by the group’s Telegram channel, the attacks would be a response to Lithuanian sanctions on Russia following the country’s military invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. The video demanded that Lithuania allow the transit of goods to Kaliningrad if it wanted to avoid further disruption to its government institutions and private businesses’ internet…