Author: Asad Yaseen

Emotional intelligence is becoming an increasingly important skill for CISOs to master as their roles continue to broaden, according to a new study by F-Secure. A series of interviews conducted with relatively small number of CISOs (28) from the US, UK and other European countries suggested that the role of CISO is no longer purely technical in nature. Two-thirds said they understood the growing importance of emotional intelligence in enabling them to understand, empathize and…

YouTube has taken down almost 3000 channels and accounts deemed to part of separate Chinese and Russian state coordinated influence operations. The vast majority of the work involved the removal of 2946 YouTube channels deemed to be part of a Chinese influence operation, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group director, Shane Huntley. “These channels mostly uploaded spammy content in Chinese about music, entertainment and lifestyle,” he explained in a TAG bulletin for Q1 2021. “A very…

French software provider Centreon has hit back at a report from the country’s cybersecurity agency that its products were hijacked in a Russian cyber-campaign, claiming that no paying customers were affected. The firm, which produces IT monitoring software not unlike SolarWinds, was at the center of a report from the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) this week. It claimed that the infamous Sandworm group, responsible for destructive attacks against Ukrainian energy…

North Korea has attempted to hack into COVID-19 vaccine data from US pharma giant Pfizer, it has been claimed. As reported by the BBC, South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency has briefed law makers about the alleged cyber-attack, although it is unclear whether any data has been stolen. Pfizer is one of several pharma companies that have developed and received approval for a vaccine designed to protect against coronavirus in recent months. However, the development and…

While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for VERT to watch the film and review it, since my hobby is writing film reviews for RotundReviews. Cybergeddon is not talked about as much as it should be given some of the background around it. It should be noted that while we’ll reference…