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Microsoft Azure Blocks Record-Breaking 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack

Microsoft Azure Blocks Record-Breaking 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack

Microsoft Azure’s DDoS Protection platform recently defended against what the company describes as the largest cloud-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack...

183M Passwords Leaked: Check If Your Gmail Is Compromised — And Secure It Now

183M Passwords Leaked: Check If Your Gmail Is Compromised — And Secure It Now

A major cybersecurity framework has captured the attention of the media recently, showing that more than 183,000,000 email passwords have...

Gmail Passwords Found in Massive 183-Million-Account Data Leak

Gmail Passwords Found in Massive 183-Million-Account Data Leak

The recent massive data breach has once again posed a risk to the security integrity of online security systems. About...

Is the UN Cyber Security Pact Legitimizing Surveillance? 

Is the UN Cyber Security Pact Legitimizing Surveillance? 

The United Nations has signed a new Cyber Crime Pact in Hanoi. The pact sounds like a landmark step towards...

China alleges that the U.S. carried out cyberattacks on its national time center

China alleges that the U.S. carried out cyberattacks on its national time center

China said the US conducted a long-term cyber attack against a science place called the Time Center, which keeps China’s...

Qantas Airline’s 5.7 Billion Record Breach via Third-Party Call Centre

Qantas Airline’s 5.7 Billion Record Breach via Third-Party Call Centre

Qantas Airlines ran into a massive cyber breach last Sunday, where around 5.7 million customers’ records were stolen. The breach did...

Warburg Pincus acquires PSI Software Leveraging cyber-attack weakened Valuation 

Warburg Pincus acquires PSI Software Leveraging cyber-attack weakened Valuation 

Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, is buying PSI software for €700 million. The number might look big on...

Chinese Hackers Reportedly Target Prominent U.S. Law Firms, Including Williams & Connolly NYT

Chinese Hackers Reportedly Target Prominent U.S. Law Firms, Including Williams & Connolly NYT

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has launched an investigation into a series of cyberattacks that have been launched on...

Hacker group claims theft of nearly 1 billion Salesforce records

Hacker group claims theft of nearly 1 billion Salesforce records

The modern online environment has suffered one more major cyber-attack. An unidentified group of hackers, calling themselves Scattered Lil apus...

Oracle’s Breach Shows That Security Isn’t About Hackers, It’s About Laziness 

Oracle’s Breach Shows That Security Isn’t About Hackers, It’s About Laziness 

Oracle recently confirmed that many of its customers received extortion emails from hackers claiming to release their personal data. The...

Asahi Cyber Attack and The Fragility of Digital Connectivity 

Asahi Cyber Attack and The Fragility of Digital Connectivity 

Asahi Group Holdings, Japan’s beverage empire behind Super Dry and Nikka Whisky, just demonstrated another representation of capitalism’s truth: digitalization...

Canadian probe finds TikTok gathered sensitive data on children

Canadian probe finds TikTok gathered sensitive data on children

Preliminary findings revealed that children’s accounts were exposed to extensive data mining practices. Concerns centered on three main areas: excessive...

Stellantis face Breach that highlights The Importance of Cybersecurity in Automotive Industry

Stellantis face Breach that highlights The Importance of Cybersecurity in Automotive Industry

Stellantis, the parent company of premium cars such as Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and Ram, ran into a cyber attack this...

Europe’s Airport Cyberattack Exposes Critical Vulnerabilities 

Europe’s Airport Cyberattack Exposes Critical Vulnerabilities 

The September 19 cyberattack that crippled check-in system across Europe’s busiest airports, tells a story beyond the weekend of travel...

Plex warns users to reset passwords after breach

Plex warns users to reset passwords after breach

A well-known streaming platform, Plex, which has over $25 million subscribers across the world, admitted that it experienced a data...

Do all Gmail users need to change their password now? The truth behind viral claims

Do all Gmail users need to change their password now? The truth behind viral claims

The preceding days have been rife with disturbing news scattered across the Internet, indicating that $2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide...

Varonis’s AI Powered Bet On The Future Of Cyber Defense 

Varonis’s AI Powered Bet On The Future Of Cyber Defense 

Ranging from Business Email Compromise (BEC) to weaponized QR codes, even in this age of futuristic technology, E-Mail still remains...

UnitedHealth’s Post Hack Shake Down

UnitedHealth’s Post Hack Shake Down

Last year it was Change Healthcare's cyber attack that crippled providers nationwide. At that time of emergency and need, UnitedHealth...

2.5 Billion users on Risk; A disturbing Truth

2.5 Billion users on Risk; A disturbing Truth

Google has recently released an alert to its 2.5 billion users to change their password owing to heightened hacking attempts...

30 Cybersecurity Books to Read in 2025

30 Cybersecurity Books to Read in 2025

Picture this: It’s 4 a.m., and somewhere in the world, a teenager breaks into a multi-billion-dollar corporation’s secure vaults using...