US moves to recover $2.3 million from “pig butchers” on Binance
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) is recovering $2.3 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to a “pig butchering” fraud scheme that victimized at least 37 people across the United States. Pig butchering is a social engineering scam where fraudsters contact people (the “Pigs”) on social media and messaging platforms to build trust. They eventually trick […]
3 Things CISOs Achieve with Cato
Being a CISO is a balancing act: ensuring organizations are secure without compromising users’ productivity. This requires taking multiple elements into consideration, like cost, complexity, performance and user experience. CISOs around the globe use Cato SSE 360, as part of the Cato SASE Cloud platform to balance these factors without compromise. This article details how […]
NHS Breach, HSE Bug Expose Healthcare Data in the British Isles
This week, a division of the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland was struck by a cyberattack, potentially disrupting services and exposing patient and employee data. Meanwhile, a researcher disclosed a Salesforce configuration error that exposed millions of Irish citizens’ COVID vaccination data from that country’s Health Service Executive (HSE). The two incidents, separated by a […]
Healthcare still a prime target for cybercrime gangs – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Video Healthcare organizations remain firmly in attackers’ crosshairs, representing 20 percent of all victims of ransomware attacks among critical infrastructure entities in the US in 2023 15 Mar 2024 More than 20 percent of ransomware attacks that hit critical infrastructure organizations in the United States in 2023 were aimed at the healthcare sector, according to […]
Which Is Best for Your Business?
Breaches are more common than ever, phishing scams continue to have success and AI is helping to take cybercrime to a whole new level. Hornetsecurity’s Cyber Security Report 2024 analyzed 45 billion emails sent in 2023 — 3.6% were considered malicious. That’s 1.6 billion potentially harmful emails. Almost half of all email-based attacks use phishing […]
Transforming the Economics of Superfast Broadband with Cisco Routed PON
Today marks the launch of Cisco Routed PON, a truly disruptive solution that enables agile, differentiated broadband services through a software-defined broadband network. It’s part of our ongoing mission to transform the economics of networking for the benefit of communication service providers and communities worldwide. Routed PON drastically improves the cost of broadband deployment in […]
Global outage was caused by “configuration change”
McDonald’s has blamed a third-party service provider’s configuration change, not a cyberattack, for the global outage that forced many of its fast-food restaurants to close. According to a statement shared by the company’s Chief Information Officer Brian Rice, the global technology system outage began around midnight CDT on Friday. However, the outage still impacts some […]