Amy Krigman
Amy Krigman is GlobalSign's Public Relations Manager. Within this role, she has developed a broad range of successful PR campaigns that have generated press in technology, business, trade and consumer publications. As a result, she has developed a reputation as one of the best media relations professionals in the business. Amy has also worked with leading analyst firms such as Gartner, IDC and Forrester Research, gaining critical exposure for her B2B clients that have led to inclusion in research reports, references at analyst events and more.
Recent Posts
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 16, 2022
May 20, 2022Despite its massive attack on Costa Rica, Conti says it's shutting down, an attack leads to a huge…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 9, 2022
May 13, 2022Costa Rica is reeling from a ransomware attack, the U.S. CISA Chief talks about future tech…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 2, 2022
May 06, 2022The White House gets serious about post-quantum computing, something is phishy at the UK National…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 25, 2022
April 29, 2022Coca-Cola investigates a possible cyber intrusion, T-Mobile admits to a data breach last month, the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 18, 2022
April 22, 2022Billions of malicious emails are lobbed at UK government employees every year, more than 100…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 11, 2022
April 15, 2022A major cyberattack in India, hackers steal $11 million+ of Binance Coin and the U.S. Justice…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 4, 2022
April 08, 2022Finland's defence and foreign affairs ministries have just been hit with a cyber attack, VMware…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 28, 2022
April 01, 2022Lapsus$ strikes again, one of the largest crypto hacks in history went down last week, hackers are…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 21, 2022
March 25, 2022Lapsus$ gang hits Microsoft and Okta, the FBI says ransomware hit 649 critical infrastructure orgs…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 14, 2022
March 18, 2022Hackers are disabling MFA, Ireland's data commission charges Facebook's parent company with more…
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News Scan Week of March 7, 2022
March 11, 2022Google Acquires Mandiant, U.S. states are being targeted by a Chinese hacking group and, after its…
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News Scan Week of February 28, 2022
March 04, 2022The U.S. Senate passes major cybersecurity legislation, car manufacturer Toyota is recovering after…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 14, 2022
February 18, 2022An FBI warning about BEC attacks, Russian-backed hackers have been targeting and compromising…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 7, 2022
February 11, 2022Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is targeted in a serious cyber security…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 24, 2022
January 28, 2022The LockBit ransomware gang says it’s hit France’s Ministry of Justice, Canadian officials take down…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 10, 2022
January 14, 2022This week the White House hosted an open-source software security summit, including Apple, Facebook,…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 3, 2022
January 07, 2022On Tuesday, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a stern warning to companies…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of December 13, 2021
December 17, 2021Hello and welcome back to the GlobalSign blog! This week everyone is talking about the Log4J…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of December 6, 2021
December 10, 2021The US military is beginning to take action against ransomware groups, and hundreds of European SPAR…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 29, 2021
December 03, 2021This week, DNA testing company DNA Diagnostics Center reported a data breach that leaked the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 15, 2021
November 19, 2021The biggest story of the week actually took place last weekend, when hackers were able to compromise…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 8, 2021
November 12, 2021News emerged that electronics retail giant MediaMarkt suffered a Hive ransomware attack that began…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 1, 2021
November 05, 2021London-based Diamond specialist Graff has reportedly been hit by a ransomware attack, prompting an…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 25, 2021
October 29, 2021It’s always interesting to follow the cybersecurity market because something intriguing is always…
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Cyber Autopsy Series: Colonial Pipeline
October 29, 2021As if shutting down operations of the Pipeline wasn’t bad enough, its operators paid a ransom of…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 18, 2021
October 22, 2021In Argentina, a hacker allegedly stole ALL the data from the country’s database and then posted the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 4, 2021
October 08, 2021The biggest story of the week wasn’t a cybersecurity incident per se, but it sure had worldwide…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 27, 2021
October 01, 2021Twitter bots are tricking users into making PayPal and Venmo payments and other cybersecurity news…
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Cyber Autopsy Series: SolarWinds Breach Makes History
October 01, 2021Join us every Friday in October to read about one of these notorious cyber attacks and stick around…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 20, 2021
September 24, 2021In this week's news, BlackMatter has taken responsibility for a ransomware attack on a grain…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 13, 2021
September 17, 2021The biggest story this week was over at Apple, which released security updates for a zero-day…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 6, 2021
September 10, 2021And…they’re back. The REvil ransomware gang that is. You may recall these are the same guys behind…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 30, 2021
September 03, 2021This week, Bangkok Airways revealed that its data has been breached following a recently revealed…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 16, 2021
August 20, 2021The big hack of the week took place at T-Mobile, where cyber criminals stole the personal…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 9, 2021
August 13, 2021It turns out this week’s $600 million hack at decentralized finance platform Poly Network was just…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 1, 2021
August 06, 2021This week was marked by the fact that there were no major new attacks -- a very good thing. But…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 26, 2021
July 30, 2021Fortunately, this week was quieter in terms of major new attacks. What we are seeing is continued…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 19, 2021
July 23, 2021Preventing attacks and breaches of pipeline companies is once again the theme of this week's…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 16, 2021
July 16, 2021Multiple REvil ransomware sites are down on the dark web, CISA orders federal agencies to disable…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 9, 2021
July 09, 2021Latest details of the REvil supply chain attack at Kaseya, Microsoft’s urgent PrintNightmare”…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 21, 2021
June 25, 2021This week in cybersecurity news, regulations for “Systemically important critical infrastructure”…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 14, 2021
June 18, 2021Biden to Putin: Critical infrastructure should be "off-limits", more than a billion CVS Health…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 7, 2021
June 11, 2021It was just revealed that the massive gaming company EA has been attacked, during which game source…
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5 on Friday – 5 Government Security Risks for Consideration
June 11, 2021Government agencies are vulnerable because, as many have concluded, they simply haven’t been…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 31, 2021
June 04, 2021This week meat lovers around the globe were very distressed after learning that massive food…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 17, 2021
May 21, 2021Healthcare organizations have been in the bullseye for hackers since the pandemic began last year,…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 10, 2021
May 14, 2021Operators of the Colonial Pipeline paid close to $5 million in ransomware blackmail payment,…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 3, 2021
May 07, 2021The US Department of Justice seized and shut down a fake Covid-19 website in the last several days,…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 26, 2021
April 30, 2021The Wall Street Journal previously revealed details about a new task force to combat ransomware…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 19, 2021
April 23, 2021Lots of interesting activity in Washington, D.C., this week where it appears that December’s…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 12, 2021
April 16, 2021There have been some interesting developments over the last several days concerning the SolarWinds…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 5, 2021
April 09, 2021A massive data breach at Facebook, reports of a "significant" attack at the European Commission, and…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 29, 2021
April 02, 2021Lots to talk about the federal level at the moment. This week, the US government is mulling over new…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 22, 2021
March 26, 2021Computer manufacturer Acer announced it is the latest victim of a ransomware attack. It appears that…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 15, 2021
March 22, 2021In this week’s cybersecurity wrap-up we share SolarWinds updates, how ransomware demands are getting…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 8, 2021
March 12, 2021Microsoft was in the bullseye for the second week in a row due to the ongoing concerns about…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 1, 2021
March 05, 2021There was lots of news this week around data breaches. But first, CISA has issued an emergency…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 22, 2021
February 26, 2021We cover the biggest cybersecurity news headlines of the week along with some other intriguing…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 15, 2021
February 19, 2021Talk about a "les miserables” week! What stood out was not so much new attacks themselves, but the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 8, 2021
February 12, 2021The news story that's on many minds this week is what happened at a Florida water treatment…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 1, 2021
February 05, 2021It hasn’t been a great start to the New Year for several UK organizations, as this week numerous new…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 25, 2021
January 29, 2021On Wednesday, there was a massive global takedown of the Emotet botnet, which has been one of the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 18, 2021
January 22, 2021Miraculously, we’ve made it through one whole week without a large-scale ransomware attack. How…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 11, 2021
January 15, 2021In Covid-19 news, CheckPoint says cybercriminals on the dark web have been advertising available…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of January 4, 2021
January 08, 2021Three weeks after the Solar Winds Orion hack, the shock and awe seems to be wearing off and reality…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of December 14, 2020
December 18, 2020This week Reuters News Service uncovered what may become one of the worst hacks ever: an attack on…
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2020’s Most Memorable Cybersecurity Events
December 16, 20202020 didn’t exactly match up to what we imagined it might be like. To add insult to injury, hackers…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of December 7, 2020
December 11, 2020We’ve seen some very big players in the bullseye recently. Most recently, it was one of the most…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 30, 2020
December 04, 20202020 may be winding down but the cyber attacks are not. The most concerning this week is a series of…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 16, 2020
November 20, 2020IoT security for the US government took a big step with the US Senate unanimously passing the…
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Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 9, 2020
November 13, 2020The feds got a big take this week with a seizure of Bitcoins valued at more than a billion dollars.…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 2, 2020
November 06, 2020GitHub was in the news quite a bit this week. First, researchers at Google’s Project Zero announced…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 26, 2020
October 30, 2020Swedish security firm Gunnebo was hacked. It is deeply concerning since it is believed that many of…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 19, 2020
October 23, 2020Notable this week are the hackers who say they are giving back, because, they “want to make the…
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Cyber Autopsy Series: Ukrainian Power Grid Attack Makes History
October 22, 2020Regional electricity distribution company Ukrainian Kyivoblenergo has a dubious distinction. It is…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 12, 2020
October 16, 2020Barnes & Noble has confirmed a cyberattack has impacted its Nook eBook reader and storage platform.…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 5, 2020
October 09, 2020In this week's news, more than a quarter of Canadian IT workers say their company was the victim of…
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Cyber Autopsy Series: The Great Twitter Attack of 2020
October 08, 2020Kicking off our new series for Cybersecurity Awareness month, we dive into the great Twitter hack of…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 28, 2020
October 02, 2020It’s been a banner week for cyber attacks. Organizations such as The Swatch Group and French…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 21, 2020
September 25, 2020Our weekly blog covers the cyber attack at eyewear giant Luxottica. Plus, the Russian government…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 14, 2020
September 18, 2020It’s been another active week in cybersecurity land, starting with the news that Nvidia agreed to…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of September 7, 2020
September 11, 2020A new school year has begun, and many districts are feeling the pain of remote learning. Hartford…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 31, 2020
September 04, 2020This week marked a new phase for TLS certificates, which now only have a lifespan of 398 days. Will…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 24, 2020
August 28, 2020This week we learned that Tesla was very fortunate as it was able to prevent a ransomware attack at…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 10, 2020
August 14, 2020This week a well-known cybersecurity training company was hit by a data breach due to a phishing…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of August 3, 2020
August 07, 2020In this week's cybersecurity news, observers are dissecting what happened at Garmin, which many…
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Ransomware Attackers Demand Millions from Telecom Argentina
August 03, 2020The hack - which homed in on the company’s call center - enabled the attackers to encrypt up to…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 27, 2020
July 31, 2020On the heels of the recent attack at Twitter, the tech world was abuzz about yet another…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 20, 2020
July 24, 2020This week in cybersecurity news, the Twitter hack is still at the top of everyone's minds. As it…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 13, 2020
July 17, 2020To say that Twitter had a bad week is an understatement. This week the social media platform has…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 6, 2020
July 10, 2020This week has not been marked by major events (not yet anyway, but hey, Friday’s only half over.)…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 29, 2020
July 03, 2020Our weekly blog discusses stolen files on the Dark Web, new U.S. government encryption battle,…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 22
June 26, 2020This week's cybersecurity news blog discusses a possible SSL incident at Samsung, Twitter’s big data…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 15
June 19, 2020Amazon Web Services (AWS) disclosed it was the victim of the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 8, 2020
June 12, 2020In this week’s cybersecurity news: the ransomware attack at Honda, an update on Nintendo’s recent…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of June 1, 2020
June 05, 2020An Austrian village was the victim of ransomware attack by the group NetWalker. While it does not…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 25, 2020
May 29, 2020In non-data breach news, Microsoft's issued an advisory warning organizations worldwide to deploy…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 18, 2020
May 22, 2020Once again, data breaches were at the top of the news cycle this week. From new attacks to reports…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 11, 2020
May 15, 2020As usual, hackers are up to old (and new) tricks, striking companies and organizations such as…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of May 4, 2020
May 08, 2020Another working (from home) week is coming to an end, but sadly, cyber attacks on the healthcare…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 27, 2020
May 01, 2020From a major US pharmaceutical firm suffering from a ransomware attack (and a data breach) to a…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 20, 2020
April 24, 2020A new targeted malicious attack on an annual whiskey auction and more stories are covered in the…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 13, 2020
April 17, 2020The pandemic unfortunately continues to be a field day for hackers. But this week, we are also…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of April 6, 2020
April 10, 2020In this week’s security news round-up, you’ll find two specific articles about paying hackers: one…
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A Closer Look at the Latest Cyber Attack on the Mexican Government
April 08, 2020Before the world was deeply plunged into the world of Covid-19, the Mexican government was impacted…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 30, 2020
April 03, 2020Another week has gone by as we all work remotely. Cyber attacks persist, even in regions hardest-hit…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 23, 2020
March 27, 2020Despite COVID-19’s rapid spread and deepening hold on the world, many hackers are sadly continuing…
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3 Ways Hackers are Exploiting the Coronavirus – And Some Who MIGHT Actually Take a Break
March 24, 2020Hackers. They’re a unique bunch. Naturally, they have decided to take advantage of the Coronavirus.…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 9, 2020
March 13, 2020It’s been a week of Coronavirus talk every second of every single day. But life goes on -…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of March 2, 2020
March 06, 2020File this week’s cybersecurity news theme under “UK” since there were a greater number of stories…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 24, 2020
February 28, 2020Besides the RSA conference, there was still lots of cybersecurity news to discuss. One of the…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 17, 2020
February 21, 2020As always there are a plethora of cybersecurity news stories to review. But certainly one of the of…
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The GlobalSign Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 10, 2020
February 14, 2020From business email compromise attacks (BEC), to raising the question of digital signatures on…
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The GlobalSign 2019 PKI Survey – Results and Infographic
December 03, 2019GlobalSign conducted a survey earlier this year to better understand how, and why, companies are…
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Lessons Learned from the Capital One Attack
August 14, 2019The recent hack against Capital One may be one of the biggest ever in terms of the number of…
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How PKI Helps Ease Some of Today’s Biggest Security Challenges
July 16, 2019A division of 451 Research, the organization asked its members about their biggest security…
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It's Tax Season - And Cyber Criminals are Waiting
April 10, 2019The ramifications of individual cybersecurity breaches can be devastating. According to a recent…
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Ransomware Attacks with Funny Names Cause Disruption to Manufacturers – And It’s No Laughing Matter
March 29, 2019Funny names, but not such funny consequences.
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And the Award Goes To…The GlobalSign IoT Identity Platform!
March 07, 2019Strong, unique identities are the core of IoT device security. Giving unique identities allows them…
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Staying Safe Online This Valentine’s Day…You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get
January 31, 2019Sadly, Valentine’s Day has become another opportunity for hackers, cyber thieves, and assorted…
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A Look Back – A Look Ahead
December 20, 20182018 was a pivotal year for GlobalSign – and the security industry in general. From new partnerships…
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GlobalSign’s 2019 Predictions
November 09, 2018Some of GlobalSign's favorite employees are asked to gaze into their crystal balls and glean some…
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Say Yes to HTTPS, or Face Business Risks
October 04, 2018We take a look at Google Chrome and browser security and the risks by not being secured via HTTPS.…
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The Promise and Challenges of Connected Cars
August 10, 2018In addition to instant messaging and augmented reality, we’re also now beginning to see vehicles…
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IoT: Driving the Trucking Industry Forward
July 20, 2018According to Statista, within two years the discrete manufacturing, transportation & logistics and…
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Going Paperless Enables Educational Institutions Worldwide to Prosper and Grow
June 19, 2018One such market that’s going paperless due to the benefits it offers is education, as well as the…
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From Connected Cows and Crop Control to Drones, the Internet of Things is Rapidly Improving Agriculture
May 25, 2018The IoT has also had a tremendous impact on industries, especially farming. In fact, a new survey of…
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What Happens When You Don't Renew Your SSL Certificates on Time?
February 20, 2018Life is busy and a result, people forget to do things sometimes. However, some tasks should not be…
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UC Berkeley Study Fishes for Answers on Phishing Toolkits
December 18, 2017Google has published a report analyzing the use of phishing kits in stealing Google email…
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Don’t Let Grinch-Like Hackers and Fraudsters Ruin the Holidays
November 17, 2017Sainsbury's Bank UK have released a friendly infographic message to having a safe and fraud free…
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The Reaper Botnet is Grim Indeed
October 31, 2017Forget all the things you thought you were afraid of, something bigger is coming. It's called…
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Breaking Down the Encryption Debate in the UK
October 24, 2017Amber Rudd is shaking up the UK with her comments on encryption. On the one hand, the new UK Data…
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GlobalSign Security Survey Results: Don’t Forget about the Basics
August 30, 2017GlobalSign's recent survey in the US and EMEA shows that companies are still slow to adopt basic…