ONS Reports Huge Spike in Cybercrime and Fraud During COVID-19

ONS Reports Huge Spike in Cybercrime and Fraud During COVID-19

Fraud and computer misuse offenses rose by 43% in the year ending June 2021 compared with the pre-COVID year ending June 2019, according to estimates from the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW). Published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the figures further demonstrated the extent to which crime shifted to the digital space during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK. There was an estimated 14% decline in total crime excluding computer…

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US Offers $10m Reward to Unmask DarkSide Leaders

US Offers m Reward to Unmask DarkSide Leaders

The US State Department has offered $10m to anyone able to help reveal the identity or location of “leaders” of the DarkSide ransomware group. In a first for the government, the department also said it would offer $5m for information “leading to the arrest and/or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in a DarkSide variant ransomware incident.” The group most famously was responsible for the Colonial…

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Get the training you need to switch to a cybersecurity career

Get the training you need to switch to a cybersecurity career

With cybercrime becoming more frequent and severe, there’s no question that the demand for cybersecurity skills will remain high well into the future, and now you can learn them easily. Image: NicoElNino, Getty Images/iStockphoto Major cybercrimes are happening every single day, so the demand for cybersecurity experts has never been higher, and will probably remain so well into the future. If you’ve been thinking of switching careers next year, then you may want to start…

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Facial Recognition Firm Could Be Ordered to

Facial Recognition Firm Could Be Ordered to

Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI will most likely be required to dramatically scale back operations in the UK, following a joint investigation by the UK and Australian privacy regulators, experts have claimed. After an investigation lasting over 15 months, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released its ruling on Tuesday. It said the New York-based firm had breached Australians’ privacy by scraping their images from the web without their knowledge and disclosing…

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Ukraine Unmasks Armageddon Group as FSB Officers

Ukraine Unmasks Armageddon Group as FSB Officers

Ukrainian special services claim to have identified the operatives behind the prolific “Armageddon” hacking group, alleging they are Russian FSB officers. In a brief statement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) revealed that the group, also known as “Garmaredon,” was responsible for over 5000 attacks on the Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure assets. It targeted 1500 government computer systems intending to steal sensitive information relating to security and defense and blocking information systems, as well…

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Lessons learned from COVID-19: How cybercriminals took advantage of financial institutions

Lessons learned from COVID-19: How cybercriminals took advantage of financial institutions

Lessons learned from COVID-19: How cybercriminals took advantage of financial institutions | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more….

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End-to-End Flow State Validation with Nexus Dashboard Insights Connectivity Analysis – Cisco Blogs

End-to-End Flow State Validation with Nexus Dashboard Insights Connectivity Analysis – Cisco Blogs

Most IT operations folks are familiar with vaguely worded statements like “My application performance is bad,” “The network is slow,” and “Sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn’t.” Often, there’s very little concrete information to work with when attempting to diagnose network performance problems. Any number of possible culprits across a variety of different devices could be wholly or partially contributing to an issue. That leads to the question: “How do you quickly and definitively…

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Using chpasswd to change account passwords on Linux

Using chpasswd to change account passwords on Linux

The chpasswd command allows admins to change account passwords by piping username and password combinations to it. This can be done one-account-at-a-time or by putting all of the accounts to be modified in a file and piping the file to the command. How to use chpasswd Using the chpasswd command requires root privilege. You can switch to the root account and run a command like this: # echo nemo:imafish | chpasswd Better yet, you can…

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Silicon Photonics Explained: Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 15 notes – Cisco Blogs

Silicon Photonics Explained: Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 15 notes – Cisco Blogs

Episode 15 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 15 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 15. Silicon photonics explained, with Ron Horan. Part 1 of 5. Silicon photonics was a buzzword in the optics research community for years before it finally became a reality. Cisco recognized it as not only a hot technology, but one that would deliver real value. Hence three key acquisitions in this…

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Rockport Networks debuts the “switchless” network

Rockport Networks debuts the “switchless” network

A startup called Rockport Networks has exited stealth mode with an intriguing product: a switchless network. It claims the Rockport Switchless Network product can move data faster and with better latency than switched networks. In a Rockport Switchless Network, switching functionality has been reassigned to intelligent endpoint network cards where these devices (nodes) become the network. Each device has an FPGA and can connect up to 24 endpoints to a dedicated 1U SHFL (pronounced “shuffle”)…

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