Cruise line operator Carnival Corporation has disclosed that one of their brands suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend.

Thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were recently hacked during cyberattacks, Canadian authorities have announced.

With a Private CA (or “Private PKI”) solution, you can brand the certificates for your servers, devices, and users. Since the purpose of this CA is to serve your organization only, it will provide a tighter control when its Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is used for internal user authentication. For this reason, Private PKI is immensely popular for deployment in enterprise IT, as well as cloud-native DevOps and Internet of Things (IoT) environments.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was joined by government, industry and international partners for Cyber Storm 2020, a national cyber exercise designed to simulate response to a cyber crisis impacting the nation’s critical infrastructure.

CACI International Inc has named Todd Probert President of CACI’s National Security and Innovative Solutions (NSIS) sector, responsible for advancing the company’s mission expertise and technology that supports the nation’s defense, intelligence, and federal civilian government` customers’ missions.

The Trump administration has enacted several measures to protect U.S. national security, citizens’ privacy, and the integrity of  5G infrastructure from "Beijing’s malign influence," announced US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo. 

Risk Based Security released their 2020 Mid Year Data Breach QuickView Report, revealing that although the number of publicly reported data breaches stands at its lowest in five years, the number of records exposed is more than four times higher than any previously reported time period.

Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, has appointed Andrew Rose as its Resident CISO for the EMEA region.

Over the past few months, millions of workers have turned their homes into their new, remote office, including state government employees, which brought a host of risks through use of unsecured Wi-Fi and poor access controls. This shift toward home as well as the underlying panic brought on by COVID-19 altered hackers’ focus and targets aimed at the remote worker. Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) preparing their companies for this change require time, training for employees and the right technology, as well as increased cooperation between the security teams and IT/network operations groups.