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Russia accounted for the majority of state-sponsored attacks over the past year, with the SolarWinds attackers dominating threat activity, according to Microsoft data. The firm’s Digital Defense Report 2021 covers the period from July 2020 to June 2021 and details state and cybercrime activity. Kremlin-backed raids accounted for 58% of all nation-state attacks during the period, with Nobelium (aka APT29, Cozy Bear) generating the vast majority (92%) of notifications Microsoft made to customers about attacks. The threat group was…

Intercepting data traffic via iPhone By Jordan Marcus Bonagura Introduction This article aims to demonstrate in a simplified way different approach for capturing and intercepting network traffic data originating from an iPhone device. Obviously, the iPhone is not the only device subject to these approaches, and the strategies presented here are not the only ones capable of performing such intercepts. The simplest way to get this data is to use a proxy server. In the…

A leading UK high street bank has pleaded guilty to failing to stop a massive money-laundering operation carried out by a business customer. Criminal charges were brought against NatWest by regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under the UK’s Money Laundering Regulations 2007. The lender, which is state-backed, entered a guilty plea at Westminster Magistrates Court in the first case of its kind. It covers four years between November 2012 and June 2016, during which the bank…

Cyber-attacks targeting UK firms are back on the increase, reaching a rate of one every 47 seconds over the summer, according to new data from Beaming. The business ISP had noted a 9% year-on-year drop in the second quarter, but it now appears that was a temporary blip. Attacks increased 4% between July and September over the same period last year. The firm claimed that this amounts to an average of 168,975 attacks per company in…

VMware users can now purchase third-party partner solutions from the VMware Marketplace and deploy these solutions directly to VMware endpoints. Plus, we are delighted to announce a host of upcoming VMware Marketplace portfolio capabilities and services that will accelerate our customers’ cloud adoption journeys and our partners’ go-to-market strategies with VMware. Recent innovations in digitization have had deep impacts in almost every aspect of our life, from food and healthcare to personal finance and manufacturing….

The security, portability, and agility of container technology complement the proven capabilities of the leading real-time operating system (RTOS), VxWorks®, now available for containerized deployments at the intelligent edge. As the complexity of applications and their supporting infrastructures create new potential attack vectors for increasingly sophisticated hackers to exploit, containers in embedded systems offer a means to deliver responsive, secure application delivery to the intelligent edge. With these capabilities, aerospace and defense organizations, energy providers,…

As an  Official Champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), the Council will be sharing educational resources on payment security best practices on the PCI Perspectives blog, and through our Twitter (@PCISSC) and LinkedIn pages. The Council will align these resources with the four weekly themes outlined by the National Cyber Security Alliance: