As the fight against the coronavirus pandemic has progressed through the research phases to the production of working vaccines against COVID-19, the cyber attacks have followed. These attacks are nothing new, but they’ve changed focus. In March and April there were attacks on the US Department Health and Human Services, attacks on one of

Panelists at the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum this week said cybercriminals will likely use tried-and-true techniques, such as phishing emails themed around COVID-19 vaccines or President-elect Biden, to keep exploiting novel vulnerabilities. This year saw unprecedented changes in the cybersecurity landscape, with rapid telehealth rollouts and massive shifts to at-home

It’s a common adage among cybersecurity defenders that they have to be right 100 per cent of the time while criminals only have to be right once. As the WannaCry ransomware attack (which hit hundreds of thousands of computers with little energy expended by its creators) indicates, the adage has unfortunately become

More than 70% of the organisations have experienced a 25% or more rise in cyber threats or alarms since the pandemic broke outAs many as 99.8% of employees of the IT sector in India are not adequately trained and equipped to handle their tasks and perform well under remote working

The pandemic has presented an opportunity for cybercriminals with Interpol and others warning that further increases in these crimes are expected. Americans lag behind in securing their increasingly digital lives and businesses. We must catch up if the United States is going to thrive both during and after the pandemic,