Security News > 2022 > March
Distributed Denial-of-service attacks decreased slightly in 2021 but are becoming larger and more complex in nature, an analysis from F5 has found. "The volume of DDoS attacks has fluctuated by quarter, but the unmistakable trend is that these attacks are getting larger," said David Warburton, Director of F5 Labs.
The director of UK intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters, Sir Jeremy Fleming, has warned that China is trying to introduce "Undemocratic values as the default for vast swathes of future tech and the standards that govern it." China believes Russia will support its digital markets and technology plans.
A report of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity explores how pseudonymization techniques can help increase the protection of health data. This is especially true since providing health services today implies an extended exchange of medical information and of health data among different healthcare service providers.
OpenText announced a report which provides in-depth analysis, market insights, trend data, and predictions for what lies ahead as organizations move toward strengthening their cyber resiliency posture in the face of ever-increasing cyberattacks and cyber warfare. Last year, phishing attacks escalated across email, text, and other communications platforms and new high-risk malicious URLs were found hiding behind proxy avoidance and anonymizers.
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for BYOD and enterprise mobility estimated at $84.4 billion in the year 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of $157.3 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 16.7% over the analysis period, according to Global Industry Analysts. The BYOD and enterprise mobility market in the U.S. and China.
Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the top three proliferators of state-linked Twitter misinformation campaigns, according to a report released Wednesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. The think tank's International Cyber Policy Centre report and corresponding website examined datasets in Twitter's Information Operations Archive to understand state willingness, capability and intent to drive disinformation campaigns.
A now-former finance director stole tablet computers and other equipment worth $40 million from the Yale University School of Medicine, and resold them for a profit. Jamie Petrone, 42, on Monday pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return, crimes related to the theft of thousands of electronic devices from her former employer.
The widely used Zlib data-compression library finally has a patch to close a vulnerability that could be exploited to crash applications and services - four years after the vulnerability was first discovered but effectively left unfixed. In short, this is a memory-corruption flaw: software that relies on zlib to compress user-supplied data can be made to crash and terminate, through an out-of-bounds write, if that data is specially formatted.
An independent security researcher has shared what's a detailed timeline of events that transpired as the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion gang broke into a third-party provider linked to the cyber incident at Okta in late January 2022. Sitel, through its acquisition of Sykes Enterprises in September 2021, is the third-party service provider that provides customer support on behalf of Okta.
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