Social messaging apps are very common these days and we can't imagine any communications without Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, Wechat, Telegram, Facetime, or similar. Gone are the days when SMS was the mode of messaging and BBM (remember Blackberry Messenger) was the only secured channel available for corporations to rely on for business communications. ...
Cryptography and security expert, Cédric Jeannot, has told MNA that local hotel and gaming companies operators face data hacking risks and need to make sure they have a long-term cybersecurity strategy...
BYOD. Sounds like something you’d see scrawled on an invitation to a party. Actually, if you attend the parties I do, “Bring Your Own Device” would be accurate. Nowadays, everyone sits around and scrolls on their devices. If someone does BYOB they’re sipping it as they scroll through their device. ...
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has finally come into force and it is capturing the attention of businesses worldwide. The law sets a new global standard for data privacy and cybersecurity that applies to all businesses and organisations which process data of EU citizens even if the company is established in a non-EU jurisdiction....
APrivacy’s military-grade data security allows financial institutions to communicate and conduct business over their customers’ preferred channel of communication. Based on a unique and patented data-centric approach to security, APrivacy delivers a seamless user experience through its innovative encryption key and identity management. ...
Awareness has never been rifer on where our personal data is going, who is harvesting it, and for what purpose. This was brought to prominence in March after 87 million Facebook users’ personal data had been collected, unknowingly, via a third-party app and shared with election consultancy Cambridge Analytica. It has been described as the biggest security breach of the...
As a part of drawing the FinTech scene in Hong Kong, FinTechnews collects, tracks and analyzes hundreds of FinTech Startups. Today, the FinTech industry experiences the huge changes. So many few startups are slowly knocked out of the game while more and more players have been joining. After all deep learning into the startups’ performance, we filter and pack the...
In October 2016, a Brazilian financial company with branches in the US and the Cayman Islands got hacked. According to Kaspersky Labs, the hackers changed the Domain Name System (DNS) registry of all 36 of the bank’s online properties. ...