Tag: cyberattacks
Cyemptive Technologies continues European expansion
October 20, 2023SSN Staff
SEATTLE – Cyemptive Technologies has announced its expansion into the French, Belgium and Italian markets, which included naming former Hitachi Vice President and international business executive Jean-Luc Cervera as its business development senior consultant for the region.
Cervera’s appointment is the second major move the company has made to expand its European operations in recent weeks, and the third to expand its overall international operations. In August, the company announced...
HUB Cyber Security helps strengthen Israel's digital defenses
October 19, 2023SSN Staff
TEL-AVIV, Israel – In response to a significant increase in cyber-attacks on Israeli online government authorities and enterprises, including a recent cyberattack on Israel’s Airforce website, HUB Cyber Security announced its participation in the nation’s digital ‘Fortress’ defenses.
HUB Security said that it will provide superior defenses to national infrastructures in the wake of the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures. HUB’s Secure File Vault represents...
LogRhythm announces partnership with Cimcor for enhanced cybersecurity capabilities
August 29, 2023SSN Staff
BROOMFIELD, Colo. – LogRhythm has begun a partnership with Cimcor, a security and integrity software solutions developer, to help organizations around the globe increase visibility and protect against modern cyberattacks.
The partnership leverages LogRhythm's security information and event management (SIEM) platform and Cimcor's file integrity monitoring (FIM) solution, CimTrak. Its integration with CimTrak allows LogRhythm to ingest integrity data that can identify zero-day attacks,...
Survey shows one in four schools were victims of cyberattacks in previous year
January 5, 2023SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO – Clever, a digital learning platform, has released research suggesting that one in four schools, and millions of students were affected by cyberattacks last year.
Cybersecure 2023, a survey of 4,000 school administrators and teachers, has compiled a wealth of data on cybercrime targeted at schools over the past year, and how those two groups view those vulnerabilities differently. As a result three out of four polled districts plan to increase spending on security and...
Central banks security an uncomfortable unknown as cyberattacks increase
September 14, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – As data breach becomes a daily occurrence across every connected industry, experts look nervously to central bank financial institutions for potential damage to international finance.
On September 14 the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) produced a working paper titled “Cyber risk in central banking” that examines the readiness and stance of those institutions as cyber crime grows. “While there have been several studies and surveys on cyber threats...
U.S. a favorite target for DDoS attacks, study shows
August 9, 2021SSN Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine—Approximately 65 percent of all distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are directed at the US or UK, according to the data analyzed by Atlas VPN, which noted that cybercriminals are taking advantage of vulnerabilities created with more people working remotely during the pandemic.
The report shows that:
65% of all DDoS attacks target US and UK
The United States was a target of 35% of all DDoS attacks in June 2021.
The United Kingdom comes second as it...
Information Sharing is Caring?
July 28, 2021Cory Harris, Editor
Voluntary vs. Required. That debate regarding the sharing or reporting of vital information emerged in recent days after another salvo in the war on cyberattacks was fired in Washington, D.C.
Last week, a bipartisan group of senators, led by Mark Warner (D-Va.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine), introduced a bill, titled the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021, that requires all federal agencies, contractors, and organizations considered critical to U.S. national security...
New York City Law Department hit by cyberattack
June 8, 2021SSN Staff
NEW YORK—The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is investigating yet another cyberattack, as the New York City Law Department’s computer network was forced to shut down over the weekend due to the work of hackers.
The city’s Cyber Command first detected the breach on Saturday, June 5, which forced officials to disable the Law Department’s computer the next day after it was determined that a cyberattack had taken place.
There is no indication at this point that private...
Cyberattacks skyrocket, U.S. companies targeted
August 18, 2020Ginger Hill
When I hear the word “skyrocket,” it always reminds me of fireworks bursting overhead, spraying beautiful, illuminating dots and sparkles of color across a black nature canvas. However, when it comes to cyberattacks, there’s nothing beautiful at all about them; they’re detrimental.
Take a moment to really think about these malicious assaults that gain unauthorized access to a victim’s device. Sensitive data can be stolen, computers completely taken over and harmful...