Dish confirms cyber attack impacting 300,000 employees
US-based satellite television giant Dish has confirmed that hackers stole the personal information of about 300,000 employees in a ransomware attack in February, TechCrunch...
Cybersecurity companies to deliver another quarter of robust growth
Cybersecurity companies are poised to deliver another quarter of robust growth, bolstered by high-profile cyber attacks and a shift in client preferences toward larger...
Microsoft detected 35 mn business email compromise attempts
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detected and investigated 35 million Business Email Compromise (BEC) attempts with an average of 156,000 attempts daily between April 2022...
PharMerica faces cyber attack, exposing data of 6 mn patients
PharMerica, a pharmacy service provider operating in the US, announced a data breach compromising the personal data of nearly six million patients.
With a presence...
IBM buys Polar Security
IBM has acquired Polar Security, an innovator in technology that helps companies discover, monitor and secure cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application data.
This marks IBM’s...
U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) faces cyber attack
U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) has faced a cyber attack exposing the personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees.
The data breach hit...
Toyota says 2 mn users face risk of vehicle data leak in Japan
Toyota Motor said the vehicle data of about 2.15 million users was publicly available in Japan for about a decade from November 2013 to...
Crosspoint Capital Partners to buy Absolute Software for $657 mn
Canada’s Absolute Software, cybersecurity company, said it had agreed to be taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners for $657 million.
Shareholders of Absolute Software will receive...
Capita to take a $25 mn hit after cyber attack
Outsourcing company Capita has warned it would take a 15 million pound to 20 million pound ($25 million) hit after its systems were hacked in...
ERP firm TechnologyOne faces cyber attack
TechnologyOne, the enterprise software maker in Australia, said it faced a cyber attack. It detected an unauthorized third-party access to its back-office systems.
TechnologyOne did...