If digital transformation is at the forefront of innovation, then cybersecurity is at the forefront of digital transformation. As the world goes digital, security-critical sectors like healthcare, finance and more are finding themselves increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. With the news that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency has issued an advisory about a popular gas station software that has flaws, making it highly vulnerable to hacking. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave the Orpak SiteOmat software a vulnerability severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, revealing...
The draft version of the U.K. government’s new Investigatory Powers Bill was published today, which if passed into law, will establish a new set of surveillance powers and allow security and intelligence agencies to have greater access to the websites visited by Internet users over...
No one needs further convincing on the need to tackle cybercrime with regulation. As high-profile data breaches become commonplace, companies are preparing for a spate of regulation with government agencies realizing that it might be time to intervene. Last week saw two big breaches of...
August 30, 2024
Contemporary businesses operate in an era marked by surging cyberthreats and data breaches. That’s according to a Thursday (Aug. 29) joint cybersecurity advisory by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies that revealed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group RansomHub breached over 200 victims in the United States alone over the past […]
May 03, 2019
Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency has issued an advisory about a popular gas station software that has flaws, making it highly vulnerable to hacking. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave the Orpak SiteOmat software a vulnerability severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, revealing that it has several security vulnerabilities that require “low skill” […]
October 22, 2015
After much debate and protest, the long-delayed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) finally arrived to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday (Oct. 20). The controversial cybersecurity bill intends to make it...
October 19, 2015
Last week, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which represents a group of major telecom and eCommerce companies, released a blog post stating it is “unable to support” the...
September 25, 2015
Some of the largest U.S. tech companies are feeling the backlash for their vote of support for the proposed, and very controversial, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). If passed into...
