New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with Zoom Video Communications that will provide security protections for more than 300 million meeting participants on the platform.

The number of records exposed for Q1 2020 skyrocketed to 8.4 billion –  a 273 percent increase compared to Q1 2019. 

A new Synopsys report highlights trends and patterns in open source usage within commercial applications, and provides insights and recommendations to help organizations better manage open source risk from a security, license compliance, and operational perspective.

A consortium of industry, government and academia has explored the viability of creating a UK cybersecurity ‘Centre of Excellence’ to better deal with cyber threats in the transportation sector. 

A new Netwrix report reveals that many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning.

Cognizant, IT services provider, expects its Q2 revenue to be significantly impacted due to a ransomware incident that took place in April 2020. 

The personal details of 3,688,060 users registered on the MobiFriends dating app were posted online earlier this year and are now available for download on numerous online forums. 

Alteryx Inc. announced that Billy Spears has joined the company in a new role as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).  

 

FireEye's Mandiant® Security Effectiveness Report 2020 reveals data about how well organizations are protecting themselves against cyber threats and the overall effectiveness of their security infrastructure.

Like many other industry buzzwords, there’s a lot of hype around security automation. Yet, for the first line of defense in an enterprise environment, the analysts working in the security operations center (SOC), the notion of automation is more headline than reality. Many basic tasks – logging, fault isolation, reporting, and incident troubleshooting – are still very much manual.