internet population in Canada is the highest it has been, topping the charts at 33 million. That number is only expected to increase through the upcoming years. However, this growing number and continued adoption of online services pose increasing cybersecurity risks as cybercriminals take advantage of more online users and exploit vulnerabilities in online infrastructure. This is why we need AI-backed software to provide advanced protection for online users.    The nature of these online threats is ever-changing, making it difficult for legacy threat detection systems to…

Tenable, Inc., spezialisiert auf Cyber Exposure, hat Roger Scheer zum Regional Vice President of Central Europe ernannt. Von Deutschland aus wird Scheer die Geschäfte von Tenable in der Region leiten, die strategischen Initiativen im Markt für Unternehmenssicherheit vorantreiben und die Channel-Aktivitäten und -Beziehungen weiter ausbauen. Scheer verfügt über umfangreiche Erfahrung im Bereich Cybersicherheit und ist seit über 25 Jahren im IT-Vertrieb sowie in Führungspositionen im Vertrieb tätig. Aufgrund der Umstellung auf Fernarbeit sind Unternehmen weiterhin…

Banking fraud attempts soared by 159% from the final three months of 2020 to Q1 2021 as scammers sought to hide their attack in legitimate online activity, according to Feedzai. Data used in the firm’s Financial Crime Report Q2 2021 Edition includes 12 billion global transactions between January-March 2021. The vast majority (93%) of banking fraud during the period, as always, was online. However, while telephone banking made up less than 1% of total transactions,…

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A Chinese game developer has accidentally leaked nearly six million player profiles for the popular title Battle for the Galaxy after misconfiguring a cloud database, Infosecurity has learned. AMT Games, which has produced a string of mobile and social titles with tens of millions of downloads between them, exposed 1.5TB of data via an Elasticsearch server. A research team at reviews site WizCase found the trove, which contained 5.9 million player profiles, two million transactions, and 587,000 feedback messages. Profiles typically…