The global cybersecurity workforce gap shrank from 4 million to 3.1 million in 2020, the first time ever a year-on-year reduction has been recorded. According to data from the International…
There was a marked increase in the number of ransomware attacks reported in 2020. No single business sector has been spared from the tentacles of malicious actors preying the cyberspace. …
Google suffered a global outage of its services, with users reporting that they could not use Gmail, YouTube, and most of its cloud services. It was a week that Google…
According to research by Zscaler, malicious SSL attacks have been increased by 260% in 2020, including a rise in encrypted attacks. A 500% increase in ransomware attacks was recorded among the encrypted…
Information security should be made part of the values and culture of any organization. Many organizations forget about safety, only to be jolted into action once an incident has occurred.…
The cybersecurity landscape in 2021 will be punctuated by new challenges and evolving threats. Additionally, there will be new cybersecurity tools and technologies that may as well help to improve…
An upsurge in the number of reported cases of cyber-attacks and security breaches has been noted. Such reports are appearing in the news sections more often as companies suffer intrusions…
Humans have been identified as the weakest link in the information security chain. Employees make mistakes due to inherent human characteristics such as malice, envy, defiance, and carelessness. Some of…
Cybersecurity incidents have been on the rise, and no business is entirely safe from the hacking block. Cybercriminals may primarily target large companies and multinational companies, but smaller enterprises present…
Businesses and organizations have to be at their best to avoid becoming victims of cyber-attacks. However, it is difficult to predict a cyber-attack and how it's going to unravel. It…
The deployment of 5G will ultimately transform how people live and work. Both countries and companies are in the race to deploy the fastest and largest 5G networks. Although 5G…
Cybersecurity is a major concern for businesses across all sectors today. There is a consistent rise in the type and number of attacks perpetrated against companies and organizations. State and…
Cybercrime will generally refer to criminal activity that targets or uses a computer, computer network, or networked device. As the cyberspace grows exponentially, cybercrime has kept pace. More and more…
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed organizations to remote work. Information technology professionals believe that the future of work will be either fully remote or semi-remote (hybrid). According to numerous surveys,…
Cybercrime is increasingly becoming a menace in the world today. Cybersecurity is a big concern for governments as opposed to individual users on the cyberspace. Ominous threats to the government may…
Payment fraud is the most common type of theft, according to a 2020 Federal Trade Commission report. This type of scam typically entails taking over a person's existing credit card accounts…
When internet was launched in the 1990’s, it felt safe behind the hide behind a veil of anonymity. Basically nobody knew if you were a dog, however, in the 2020’s…
In the year 2020, the world witnesses how a pandemic can change the entire lives of people. When the Novel Coronavirus cases were rising, putting the world in a panic…
A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a specific event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of…
So what is Hybrid Blockchains ? Blockchains are gaining popularity for their applications in both public and private enterprise. Privately, individuals can use blockchains as a store of wealth that…
