As healthcare organizations ramp up cybersecurity infrastructure, they need to remember that all cybersecurity services, products and processes implemented in their cyber risk ecosystem need to communicate with each other.

Cybersecurity is being prioritized as the next hurdle to tackle, particularly with the region’s 250% increase in cyberattacks in 2020, according to Mohamed al-Kuwaiti, head of UAE Government Cyber Security. There is an increasing need for more cybersecurity professionals in all activity sectors for UAE and ME and developing the next generation is key to reversing this uptake in attacks.

Howard University, a private research university based out of Washington D.C. admitted that it suffered a cyberattack on Friday. The university alerted both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the D.C. city government about the incident and added additional safety precautions to protect both staff’s and students’ data.

The new contract builds on the existing partnership between the Mindware and Barracuda companies that extends to the Gulf and Levant countries, which saw the distributor successfully grow Barracuda’s regional business and market share.

Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers. Its main purpose is to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order to run malicious containers.