Modern innovations change the face of the modern digital world. Meanwhile, the risk of cyberattacks remains a disaster for every organization. A platform effectively uses humans, technology, and resources to secure organizational functions. It works continuously round the clock to eradicate and rectify all sorts of attacks. Organizations adopt such platform depending on their level of competency in providing security services to their customers.

A new type of scam, called “pig butchering” is gaining momentum. Pig butchering is a unique scam which uses a romance scam script, but with an investment spin on it, where victims are groomed to invest large sums of money, often on fake crypto apps. Behind the scenes of these scams are scam centers run by cryptocurrency scammers, who coerce human trafficking victims into executing the online scam en masse, sometimes defrauding the unsuspecting victims of their life savings.

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we delve into digital footprints for individuals, organizations, and explore how much power these “e-footprints” have over us. Illustration by Vimal Kumar Pandiyan A digital footprint, also referred to as a dossier, is a body of data that results from your online activity.

All app development companies are aware of the importance of mobile application security testing. Despite this, the app stores are full of potentially vulnerable apps. One of the reasons for this is the myths surrounding the mobile application security testing concept - how it might be complicated or expensive to get security. However, this blog will dispel these myths and present a true picture of mobile application security testing.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Oh dear Twitter. This isn’t good…

The Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT) helps higher education mitigate the impact of security risks of vendor relationships offering cloud-based services. With supply chain attacks on the rise, and vendor risks ranking in the top three initial attack vectors for data breaches, HECVAT compliance is becoming a mandatory requirement for partnering with higher education institutions.

According to a Gartner report, 60 percent of organizations work with more than 1,000 third parties that connect to their internal systems, and nearly 58 percent of organizations believe they have incurred a vendor-related breach. Many third parties require more access to organization data assets and are increasingly working with their own third parties, further multiplying the size and complexity of the third-party network.

This month we’re introducing you to GhostSec, a hacktivist group with ties to the Anonymous collective

Application security is integral to software development, and the majority of organizations now have dedicated AppSec programs. In the past five years, there has been a marked cultural shift, with application security becoming a strategic initiative that spans departments rather than an activity, like periodic scanning, code reviews, or testing or a transactional event related to a security assessment.