Decathlon is a global sporting goods retailer with over 100,000 employees and 1,700+ storefronts worldwide. In 2022, Decathlon reported 15.4 billion euros of net sales revenue, shared with 55,000 shareholding teammates. However, Decathlon suffered a significant data leak a year before its substantial revenue report. Credentials from that attack have resurfaced recently, putting the private information of nearly 8,000 individuals at risk.

In mid-August, state officials in Connecticut began receiving worrisome complaints from constituents about a potentially dire situation unfolding at local hospitals. One such message, from a woman on Facebook, relayed a desperate plea for help on behalf of her 71-year-old father, who, she claimed, had spent the last two days on a gurney in an emergency room hallway.

The phrase “digital transformation” gets thrown around a lot these days when discussing IT infrastructure. A popular — albeit slightly vague — buzzphrase for a reason, digital transformation, in this context, simply refers to the idea that businesses are working to modernize their operations and leverage the power of new technologies.

New research from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has identified that organizations’ application security programs struggle to keep up with the pace of software development, and it reveals best practices to secure modern software applications.

What happens at the point in time when an organization’s information security is compromised? This blog explores an important paradigm shift that occurs at the very moment of compromise and that can be leveraged to turn the tables on the attackers.

Footprinting, also known as fingerprinting, is a methodology used by penetration testers, cybersecurity professionals, and even threat actors to gather information about a target organization to identify potential vulnerabilities. Footprinting is the first step in penetration testing. It involves scanning open ports, mapping network topologies, and collecting information about hosts, their operating systems, IP addresses, and user accounts.