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A Massachusetts city declines a $5.3 million ransomware demand, opting to restore from backup instead. An Irish staffing company works to close the cybersecurity skills gap for migrant women. The first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deepfakes. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

2019 is a case of “here we go again” in terms of data breaches. According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) for 2019, financial gain...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect on May 25th, 2018. The regulation shook the world of commerce, bringing organizations across...

French police remove the Retadup worm from 850,000 PCs with the help of Avast. A white hat hacker demonstrated how to hack over one million Instagram accounts. A slew of security incidents and breaches, including Foxit PDF reader, DDS Safe and Apple’s iPhone. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Marriott International has been in the news throughout 2019 due to a major data breach discovered and investigated in late 2018. The data breach, which leaked...

Looking at statistics, 2017 could be considered a record year for data breaches. For anyone following popular security-related news, this should not be a surprise,...

The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica is in the middle of one of the biggest privacy scandals of the last years; the firm has used data...

Information security (InfoSec) conferences are a great way to become familiar with new developments and later trends in technology, as well as be made aware...

As we begin a new year, let’s take a moment to look back on the biggest data breaches in 2018. This is a year-end list no one is excited to be on, yet it’s...

Last week, Equifax announced a data breach impacting 143 million U.S. consumers. According to the company’s release, information accessed includes names,...