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Info security | February 17, 2020

A local authority in the north-east of England appears to have suffered a major ransomware attack, leaving online public services down for 135,000 locals, for over a week. At the time of writing, the website of Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council was still down. An update on the council’s official Twitter account as of February 13 said: “We are still experiencing issues with our IT systems, which means we are working with a reduced capacity. We are able to receive and answer limit...

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Zscaler | June 23, 2022

Zscaler, Inc., the global leader in cloud security, unveiled today new breakthrough AI/ML innovations driven by the world's largest security cloud for unsurpassed user protection and digital experience monitoring. The new capabilities expand Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange security platform, allowing companies to implement a Security Service Edge (SSE) that safeguards against the most advanced cyberattacks while providing an outstanding digital experience to users and easing zero trust arc...

CISOMAG | April 16, 2020

Researchers at Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, have found out that amid the rising concerns of restructuring and reuse of previously known malware families, phishing kits have become a popular choice for spreading them. Phishing kits have now gained the “Bestseller” tag in the underground market, with the number of ads and their sellers having doubled in 2019 as compared to2018. The growing demand for phishing kits is also reflected in its price that skyrocketed la...

Threatppost | February 13, 2020

A new federal bureaucracy, the Data Protection Agency (DPA), has been proposed to completely revamp how the U.S. government regulates data collection and misuse by big tech companies. However, while privacy experts call the agency a “good first step,” they remain skeptical about how effective it would be once enforced. Currently, the responsibility of privacy regulation is divvied between several various agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade C...