January 2021

Month

The recent years have witnessed an dramatically growth in the field of cyber domain.This increase in cyber activities has also led to increased finance costs and increase of investments in all industry. Cyber-attacks and security incidents in critical infrastructures and industrial control systems are one of our specialty field. But how real are these threats...
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Welcome to the Cyber Security International Exercise 2022 Real-time network defense exercise organized by WOAS Cyber Security Defense Center of Excellence with its partners. Our main goal is to test the skills of the Group’s members, educate the IT legal experts and pressure the lawyers with complex legal tasks. Participants from all over the WorldA...
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Geographical developments sometimes have a big global impact and the cyber-attacks on oil and gas operators were aimed to actually disturb the oil and gas supply. The current times have exposed the vulnerability of the oil and gas industry to the cyber-attacks most of which were having some political dimensions to it. However, the experts...
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Google has patched a second actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser in two weeks, along with addressing nine other security vulnerabilities in its latest update. The company released 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all users. The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-16009, was reported...
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Cybersecurity researchers from Facebook today formally linked the activities of a Vietnamese threat actor to an IT company in the country after the group was caught abusing its platform to hack into people’s accounts and distribute malware. Tracked as APT32 (or Bismuth, OceanLotus, and Cobalt Kitty), the state-aligned operatives affiliated with the Vietnam government have...
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“Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA,” opens WhatsApp’s privacy policy. “Since we started WhatsApp, we’ve aspired to build our Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind.” But come February 8, 2021, this opening statement will no longer find a place in the policy. The Facebook-owned messaging service is alerting...
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