The DarkHotel is a cyber espionage tactic targeting high-profile individuals through hotel and restaurant Wi-Fi networks.
A major trend in cybersecurity is the speed and adeptness with which hackers adapt their techniques to take advantage of technological advances. Attacks leveraging social engineering have become more frequent and more expensive in 2023. The profitability and the ease with which social engineering-related cyber attacks are launched will drive an even higher volume of these incidents in 2024, according to GlobalData.
Akamai researchers have identified an additional step in an infostealer campaign that targets hotels, booking sites, and travel agents. This second step targets the customers of the sites themselves.
Following the release of a survey by the World Economic Forum today (18 January) showing that businesses feel a catastrophic cyberattack is likely in the next two years; Analysts at GlobalData offer their views of what 2023 holds for cybersecurity
Holiday Inn owner, Intercontinental Hotels Group, has confirmed the company has been hit by a cyber attack.
The report, ‘Codes to resilience’, in joint efforts with Microsoft, draws on comprehensive research and in-depth interviews with cyber security experts in leading Travel & Tourism organisations such as Mastercard, JTB, and Carnival Corporation, among others.
The recently reported data breach at Marriott is estimated to have compromised the personal information of nearly 500 million former Starwood customers, making it the second largest in history after Yahoo. Such security breaches are on the rise at an alarming rate and reach well beyond the hospitality industry.
A big percentage of cybercrime results from human error: Our challenge is to ensure that factor is as low as possible, security expert Todd Thibodeaux says.
A bunch of hackers spoiled several travelers’ trip to the Alps last week when the group used ransomware to attempt to lock guests of the Romantik Seehotel Jägerwir luxury hotel out of their rooms by hijacking the central key management system.
As world leaders gathered in Davos last week, cyber security again featured high on the agenda. PwC’s CEO Survey reveals that three-quarters (76%) of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to be a significant business threat. This is second only to the availability of key skills, and ahead of changing consumer behaviour, the speed of technological change and new market entrants.