Author: Asad Yaseen

The number of attacks resulting in large-scale credential theft has almost doubled over the past four years, although the volume of breached login pairs declined, according to F5. The security vendor’s 2021 Credential Stuffing Report warned that although average breach volumes declined from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million in 2020, poor security practice is driving downstream risk exposure. Perhaps unsurprisingly, plaintext storage of passwords was responsible for by far the greatest number…

News Detail Multi-million-dollar investment in Accenture VMware Business Group will help accelerate adoption of cloud at scale and creation of modern applications NEW YORK & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced an expanded partnership and the launch of a dedicated business group that will help organizations adopt a ‘cloud first’ strategy — … Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 Multi-million-dollar investment in Accenture VMware Business Group will help accelerate…

Bank transfer romance fraud rose 20% year-on-year between January and November 2020, according to new figures from UK Finance. Published shortly before this year’s Valentine’s Day, the trade association revealed that the total value of this type of scam – in which victims are duped into sending money to criminals who have convinced them they are in a genuine relationship – has increased by 12% to £18.5m. In addition, the UK’s national fraud and cybercrime…

A new breach analysis from CI Security found that cybercriminals are going after medical billing and insurance companies. Rawpixel, Getty Images/iStockphoto The numbers are not getting better for healthcare systems trying to keep patient data out of hackers’ hands. Healthcare data breaches went up 36% in the second half of 2020, according to a new analysis from CI Security. In the second half of the year, more than 21.3 million records were breached, an increase…

While it’s logical to assume seniors would be primary targets, a new report revealed that millennials were actually the most targeted demographic group of the more than 50 billion spam calls made in 2020. Image: iStock/rclassenlayouts “Scam likely.” If you get that message when a call comes in from a number you don’t recognize, you probably don’t answer and immediately register the number in your contacts as “Block caller.” If it seems like it’s happening…

Fraudsters are setting up Shopify-backed online stores to sell fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to anti-vaxxers, according to DomainTools. Due to the decentralized nature of the US healthcare system, the cards, which carry the logo of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were judged to be the simplest way the authorities can keep track of who has had the jab. Yet with 13% of Americans stating they will refuse the vaccine, there has…

Protecting your organisation against cyber attacks can sometimes feel like a never-ending game of security whack-a-mole. As soon as you’ve secured one weakness, another one appears. This can demoralise any organisation and make them believe that good information security practices are impossible. However, there is a solution – but it requires a different way of thinking. Organisations must stop looking at each individual threat as it arises and instead build defences that are equipped to…