Author: Asad Yaseen

A vengeful former staff member of a San Jose sports stadium concessionaire has admitted carrying out a costly cyber-attack against his ex-employer after losing his job.  Salvatore A. La Rosa worked for Spectra Food Services and Hospitality from Valentine’s Day 2015 until his termination on January 6, 2020. Spectra was the concessions contractor for California’s Earthquakes Stadium, home of Major League Soccer team the San Jose Earthquakes.  To sell food and other concession items at the stadium, Spectra relied on…

A number of influential companies have formed a consortium that aims to reduce the amount of disinformation, misinformation, and fraudulent content on the internet.  The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a Joint Development Foundation project, has been founded by Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and photo and video verification platform Truepic. Member organizations plan to jointly develop technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content.  In a statement released today, a Microsoft spokesperson said: “C2PA member organizations…

  She was a single mom with three kids in daycare, no child support, and a job as an executive assistant that didn’t pay enough to cover the bills. With absolutely no experience, Jen Stone took a chance on a helpdesk position, which changed her life. In this edition of our blog, Jen explains how she found success by taking ownership of her own career.

The US is going to respond to the SolarWinds supply chain attack within weeks, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN. The US will respond within weeks to the devastating SolarWinds supply cyber attack, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN. “We are in the process now of working through, with the intelligence community and [President Joe Biden’s] national security team, a series of steps to respond to Solar Winds, including steps that will hold who…

A study on CIO and CISO prioritization showed these two areas are most important this year. Cloud security is another area high on their lists. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Bob Blakley, operating partner at Team8, a venture capital think tank, about investments CISOs should be considering in 2021. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: Bob, talk about two big areas that really stood out in your recent survey. SEE:…

These two areas are CISOs’ top priorities this year Length: 8:01 | Feb 22, 2021 Team8 surveyed cybersecurity leaders to find out where they will spend their money in 2021. Source link

A leading venture capital firm based in California’s Silicon Valley has fallen victim to a cyber-attack. According to Axios, Sequoia Capital contacted investors on Friday, February 19, to inform them that their financial data and personal information had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. The data breach occurred after the email account belonging to an employee at the firm was compromised in a phishing attack.  Sequoia Capital is run from offices on Sand Hill Road in Menlo…