By Laurent Celerier, EVP Technology & Marketing There is no question that COVID-19 has had far reaching and long-lasting impacts on the way people do things, not least the way we work. Almost half (48%) of employees now work remotely or in a hybrid way, combining working in the office and working from home, according to a survey from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). The transition from workplace to residence has, in the most part,…

An investigation has been launched after cyber-criminals targeted one of the 30 teams in America’s National Basketball Association.  Cybersecurity experts hired by the Houston Rockets are working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the precise nature and extent of the security incident. Reuters reports that an unknown attacker tried to install ransomware on the basketball franchise’s internal computer systems but was largely unsuccessful. “The Rockets organization recently detected suspicious activity on certain systems in…

Someone with the right know-how can obtain your phone number and email address when you try to share a file from your iPhone, say researchers at the University of Darmstadt. iPhone users with AirDrop enabled may unknowingly expose certain personal information to a complete stranger. In a report released last week, researchers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Darmstadt in Germany revealed their discovery of a security hole in Apple’s AirDrop….

The United States is to launch a dedicated joint cyber center to promote integration between US Space Command and US Cyber Command. News of the center was shared by the commander of US Cyber Command, General James Dickinson, during a 2022 fiscal budget hearing with US Strategic Command and Space Command last week.  “We are standing up a joint cyber center within the command as we speak,” said Dickinson. Detailing what else was in the works for space and…

If you’re like me, you love a good heist film. Movies like The Italian Job, Inception, and Ocean’s 11 are riveting, but outside of cinema these types of heists don’t really happen anymore, right? Think again. In 2019, the Green Vault Museum in Dresden, Germany reported a jewel burglary worthy of its own film. On November 25, 2019 at 4am, the Berlin Clan Network started a fire that destroyed the museum’s power box, disabling some…