America’s National Cyber League has announced a new set of scholarships to help financially disadvantaged students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) compete in its latest competition. Last fall, the non-profit organization collaborated with HBCUs to award scholarships to more than 60 students so they could participate in the NCL games. Today, the NCL announced that it has expanded this collaboration by committing to offering 150 HBCU students scholarships to take part in its…

By Nathanael Coffing, CSO, Cloudentity It goes without saying that 2020 was an unprecedented year and the security landscape was completely transformed for cybersecurity professionals. Due to COVID-19 and the U.S. presidential election, the tumultuous year was a perfect storm for hackers to take advantage of. The sudden shift to a remote workforce in March 2020 meant that security perimeters were greatly extended and sometimes non-existent, enabling millions of employees to maintain productivity during the…

Multi-cloud is hot and happening at the moment. As companies start to consume more clouds the questions around multi-cloud become more relevant too. This article describes multi-cloud from an IT operations perspective and what is relevant to look at.   Cloud has been around more than a decade now. Over the last years we have seen cloud computing become the standard way of consuming IT resources to host applications. Companies are building private clouds, consuming…

Victims of the two British Airways (BA) data breaches in 2018 have been granted an additional two months to file a compensation claim after the Group Litigation Order (GLO) window was extended. The claims relate to two breaches recorded back in 2018: between August and September 2018, it was revealed that 380,000 transactions were compromised and later, 185,000 customers were notified that their personal and financial details were exposed between April and July 2018. Data compromised included…

A widely reported data breach from last year at Foxtons Group was due to a ransomware attack by the Egregor group, according to threat intelligence experts. The incident made the news this week after reports revealed a customer of the high street estate agent discovered a large number of customers’ personal and financial info on the dark web. This reportedly included over 16,000 card details, addresses and private messages, discovered by the individual on October…

Strategies for enabling the effective use of AI technologies in cyber-defense were highlighted by a panel of experts during the RSAC 365 webinar ‘AI Meets Cybersecurity: Crossing the Streams and How to Manage the Dynamic Results.’ The panellists firstly outlined the fact that the growth in AI tools has negative as well as positive connotations. While organizations are increasingly using AI to detect and predict threats across their networks, such tools are also readily available to cyber-criminals to…

The UK’s financial regulator was bombarded with nearly a quarter of a million malicious emails in the final quarter of 2020, FOI data has revealed, highlighting the continuous pressure high-profile organizations are under to protect their assets. Litigation firm Griffin Law filed the FOI request with powerful London-based body the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It revealed that the FCA was hit with 238,711 malicious and unsolicited emails over the final three months of 2020, averaging…

A French cybersecurity company with government clients revealed this week that an unauthorized third party has stolen customer data and some of its source code. Airbus subsidiary Stormshield counts the French government among its public sector client list. It claimed that attackers targeted a customer portal used by customers and partners to manage support tickets. “Personal data and technical exchanges associated with certain accounts may have been consulted. We immediately alerted the account owners on…