Author: Asad Yaseen

The level of trust in Facebook versus the government also varies between demographic groups. By Kathryn Robinson, Privacy Expert, Privacy Tiger In today’s ever-changing data-driven society, it’s a challenge for data regulations to keep up with the speed of technological advances. But as data breaches and cyberattacks increasingly threaten online privacy around the world, it’s now more crucial than ever for countries to strengthen cyber defenses to protect citizens’ data. While Europe sets the global…

Dive Brief: Nearly three-quarters of U.S.-based companies said they were victims of a successful phishing attack in 2020, up 14% year over year, according to Proofpoint’s 2021 State of the Phish report released Sunday. About 3,500 employed adults and 600 IT security professionals globally participated in a third-party survey for the report.  Sixty-eight percent of U.S. companies paid a ransom, which is twice as many as the global average. Thirty-two percent of global companies agreed…

Remote desktop protocol (RDP) attacks increase by 768% between Q1 and Q4 last year, fuelled by the shift to remote working, according to ESET’s Q4 2020 Threat Report. However, a slower rate of growth was observed in the final quarter of the year, indicating that organizations have enhanced their security for remote users. Another key finding from the report was a rise in COVID-19-themed email threats in Q4, with the vaccine rollout particularly heavily targeted….

Official figures from NHS Digital show that NHS staffers were hit by 137,476 malicious emails last year. The data, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Parliament Street think tank, revealed that NHS staff reported 27,958 suspected phishing emails targeting the NHSmail email service in 2020. Additionally, health workers reported 109,491 suspected spam emails throughout the year. The highest month for reported attacks was January (29,355) followed by March (28,855), the latter being…

The Global Risks Report highlights the onslaught of cyberattacks and a failure of governments to stop them. Getty Images/iStockphoto Cybersecurity took center stage in the 16th edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and debt crises. Since 2004 the report has detailed the most critical risks facing the world and has highlighted cyberattacks and data breaches as far back as 2012.  But the latest report comes at…

Europol is claiming to have helped dismantle an organized crime group that defrauded US banks out of an estimated €12m ($14.4m) One a single day in October last year, an international police team led by the Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) and the US Secret Service carried out 40 house searches, arrested 37 suspects and seized 13 luxury cars. As a result of Operation Secreto, they also froze 87 bank accounts holding a total of €1.3m (£1.6m). …