Last year, the FBI said that China’s theft of technology is the biggest law enforcement threat to the United States. Then, the coronavirus hit and the U.S. has to divert its resources to combat the virus that came from, you […]
The United States is slowly turning into a surveillance state. For many years, U.S. federal agencies have been storing up the latest technologies with capabilities to surveil American citizens. Once in a while, we see how these technologies are being […]
A group of Russian hackers named REvil ( a.k.a. Sodinokibi) had accessed confidential data from Quanta Computer, an Apple supplier and a Taiwan-based contract manufacturer of servers. But Quanta denied the claim saying its business was not impacted by the recent ransomware attack. […]
Early last year, four Chinese military spies were charged with hacking the credit bureau Equifax. The breach affected more than 145 million Americans with the hackers successfully stealing names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information stored in the company’s databases. […]
Crosspoint Capital Partners is a newly formed private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries. The firm has assembled a group of highly successful technology visionaries, investors, and operators to partner with foundational technology companies, transform the […]
LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned professional networking site, announced that some user data including publicly viewable member profiles have been scraped and posted for sale online. LinkedIn also added that the incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the […]
Data is growing exponentially which creates both opportunities and obligations for enterprises. Jumbled up with this exponentially growing data is ‘sensitive data’ that attackers perpetually go after, can be inadvertently misused by insiders and regulators incessantly want to govern. The […]
Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a low-level hacking forum in one of the largest cyber data breaches ever reported. The data breach was first discovered on Saturday by Alon Gal, CTO of Hudson Rock, […]
Whether you like it or not, Google is tracking your every movement online. And it’s worse than we originally thought. Last month, we wrote about Big Tech Detective, a new browser extension that shows how Big Tech are invading your privacy […]
Socure, a New York-based cybersecurity startup that provides a predictive analytics platform for digital identity verification of consumers, announced it has raised a $100 million Series D round of funding to accelerate product innovation and attract top talent. The round, which follows a […]
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist and a graduate of Oxford University invented the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN. Originally designed as a free information-sharing tool for physicists of CERN, the internet has gone from the world wide […]
At a time when the threats against the United States are on the rise, one tech startup is on a mission to protect the homeland by equipping our military with new technologies to stay ahead of the adversaries. Citadel Defense is a […]
A reliable security posture does not end with the installation of security defense systems. Cybersecurity has to be a continuing process to make sense. Cyber attacks ceaselessly evolve, as bad actors relentlessly find new ways to breach security defenses. There […]
A little over a year ago, the United States Justice Department (DOJ) also charged four Chinese military intelligence officers with hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax, in one of the largest data breaches in history. Just last week, we wrote about China […]
America is under attack, not just from coronavirus but from countries that hate her. Unlike the physical bombs that the Japanese dropped on Pearl Harbor in 1941, America is now under attack by a different type of bomb: the digital bomb. […]
The Chinese theft of American intellectual property (IP) currently costs between $225 billion and $600 billion annually, according to a report from the United States Trade Representative. In 2010, Japan accused the Chinese government of stealing its intellectual property for […]
As a tech startup, you have a lot on your plate. From fixing the printer to ordering stock and winning clients – a data breach is the last thing you need. Take a moment to ask yourself, how easy would […]
At a time when the American news cycle is dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, politics, and the ongoing censorship of free speech by the Big Tech companies, the U.S. government unexpectedly released a highly declassified a foreign-policy document that lays out […]
Yesterday, we wrote about Signal after Elon Musk urged his 42 million Twitter followers to leave Facebook and use secure messaging app Signal instead. It all started when WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned app, began issuing a privacy update notification to users making clear that […]
In late June, we covered a story about the Indian government after it banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Since then tensions between China and India have escalated amid border disputes in the Himalayas. In June, a border clash […]
