JBS SA and Pilgrim’s have announced significant progress has been made in resolving a cyberattack that has impacted the company’s operations in North America and Australia. Operations in Mexico and the UK were not impacted and are conducting business as normal.   JBS USA and Pilgrim’s were able to ship product from nearly all of […]

The FBI says that complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received its 6 millionth complaint on May 15, 2021. While it took close to seven years for the IC3 to register its first one million reports, it took only 14 months […]

Bose Corporation (Bose) has disclosed a data breach following a ransomware attack that hit the company’s systems in early March. In a breach notification letter filed with New Hampshire’s Office of the Attorney General, the consumer electronics company said that it ‘experienced a sophisticated cyber-incident that resulted in the deployment of malware/ransomware across its ‘environment’. […]

(ISC)², a non-profit association of certified cybersecurity professionals, has announced that capacity for more than 100 students is now available through December 2021 for the University of Mary Washington’s (UMW) (ISC)² Cybersecurity Certification Preparation Course. The program is formatted for evening and weekend classes to provide high-quality cybersecurity education to working professionals who require schedule […]

Financial services are big targets for cybercrime and with the average cost of a US data breach at US$8.64 million, it’s a detrimental price to pay for not taking security seriously. As the world shifts from physical to online, credit unions are doubling down on web applications to improve access and ensure vital financial services […]

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for technical assistance to upgrade its digital infrastructure and enhance services for millions of Filipinos. USTDA’s assistance continues a successful, decades-long partnership that has advanced priority information and communications technology infrastructure across the Philippines. “USTDA is […]

Bitdefender, a leading cybersecurity company protecting hundreds of millions of endpoints and systems worldwide, has announced a threat intelligence sharing partnership with Recorded Future, a provider of intelligence for enterprise security based in Massachusetts. This partnership enhances both companies’ breadth and depth of threat intelligence to provide customers with increased visibility at the apex domain level […]

Security company Verkada is reported to have been the victim of a hack of up to 150,000 security cameras. The attack targeted a Jenkins server used by its support team to perform bulk maintenance operations on customer cameras, such as adjusting camera image settings upon customer request. The attackers gained access to this server on […]

Lynx Software has announced the results of its pandemic cybersecurity survey designed to capture US employees’ sentiment toward how seriously companies have taken cybersecurity since the start of COVID-19. Companies have not done enough to prevent heightened security risk in light of remote working, as nearly four in 10 (36%) respondents have been, or know […]

Hitachi Consulting’s deployment of SentinelOne’s Endpoint Protection Platform has brought it unified detection, prevention and response capabilities within a single, purpose-built agent. With headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and over 6,500 users around the world, providing the best available protection against malicious attacks is a priority for Hitachi Consulting. Recently merged with Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Consulting […]