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Over half (51%) of cybersecurity professionals are kept up at night by the stress of the job and work challenges, according to CIISec’s 2020/21 State of the Profession report.
The survey of 557 securi

Year after year, the number of data breaches affecting entities in the healthcare industry rises, and 2020 was no exception. The 616 data breaches reported this past year to the US Department of Healt

Global financial services firms spent more than $2m on average recovering from a ransomware attack last year, according to new data from Sophos.
The UK security vendor polled 550 IT decision-makers in

Saryu Nayyar, CEO at Gurucul, peeks into Mitre’s list of dangerous software bug types, highlighting that the oldies are still the goodies for attackers.

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A Ukrainian accused of decrypting the credentials of thousands of computers across the globe and selling them on the dark web has been extradited to the United States.
US authorities indicted Glib Ole

Around one in three industrial control systems (ICS) were targeted by malicious activity in the first half of 2021, with spyware a growing threat, according to new data from Kaspersky.
The Russian sec

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has appointed Kiersten Todt as its new chief of staff.
In her new role, cybersecurity veteran Todt will be tasked with alloca

A student who hacked into a British university’s computer network and made thousands of dollars by selling the answers to exams has been sentenced to prison.
Hayder Aljayyash, who is 29 and was born i

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews:
Attackers are exploiting zero-day RCE flaw to target Windows users (CVE-2021-40444)
Attackers are exploiti