SANS ISC recently found attackers trying to take advantage of the Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Oracle Weblogic Server, CVE-2020-14882-oracle weblogic attack. It was an unauthenticated vulnerability in the Console Component of the Server. Being a part of Oracle’s…
As October 2020 ended, so did the 17th edition of the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). During NCSAM 2020, Microsoft gave out the message that ‘Cybersecurity awareness isn’t just for October, but for life.’ NCSAM is an annual Cybersecurity Awareness…
The healthcare insurance giant Aetna has reached a settlement of $1 million dollars for violating HIPAA regulations. Aetna had been accused of disclosing their customers’ information under three instances of the breach. Besides this, Aetna has time & again violated…
Three US federal agencies have recently co-authored report warning hospitals of malicious Ryuk Ransomware. These agencies include the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health & Human Services. The agencies said that the cybercriminals, probably a…
A vigilant organization can fight problems at the very first sights. This helps them avoid a lot of damage at the right time. Something like this happened on the 22nd September 2020 with the popular video messaging application, Loom. SecureLayer7…
Google has recently removed 21 malicious applications from their play store deeming them malicious for the users. These applications used to serve intrusive ads to their users. These applications were highly popularised on social media by the group behind this…
Last Thursday, the global drug manufacturer Dr. Reddy’s reported a data breach. Dr Reddy’s, which is also India’s leading COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer has isolated their data after the data breach incident besides taking all the necessary precautionary actions. The company…
A week back on the 20th October 2020, the US National Security Agency recognized & warned regarding the top 25 vulnerabilities in systems that are being most exploited by Chinese Hackers. Chinese attackers had been using these vulnerabilities overtime to…
A recent article by Help-net security recently announced some astonishing statistics in terms of cybersecurity issues & how organizations have been dealing with them. It is no secret, that this unprecedented pandemic has hit all businesses around the world harder…
It is no secret that the world is facing an unprecedented pandemic. But along with that, we are facing a surge in cybercrimes as well. With innumerable cases of various cyber crimes coming up globally, cyber crimes have become a…
