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Texas law enforcement officers have made an arrest in connection with a multi-million-dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme involving Business Email Compromise (BEC). Guillermo Perez was taken into custody Wednesday morning for allegedly defrauding businesses and individuals of more than $2m through cyber-scams and bank fraud schemes. An indictment unsealed on June 9 accuses 26-year-old Houston resident Perez of participating in the illegal scam from at least October 2018 to October 2019. Perez is accused of impersonating…

Jack Wallen shows you how to add two-factor authentication to your WordPress sites to avoid possible unwanted intrusion. Image: Jack Wallen Nothing is perfect. No matter what you do to lock down every account you have, you’re still at risk. However, doing nothing is akin to opening the metaphorical door and inviting trouble in. You don’t want that. Even though it might seem futile, you still want to enable every possible hurdle to make the…

By Otavio Freire, CTO & Co-Founder at SafeGuard Cyber Data, the saying goes, is the new oil. This probably understates the case: Not only is data at the core of the biggest businesses on earth but unlike oil, more and more of it is being created, at an exponential pace. Around 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data every day, to be precise. The most valuable forms of data exist within enterprises. Customer data, financial data,…

Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill requiring notices to be published online of any data breaches involving the personal information of 250 or more Lone Star State residents. The unanimously passed House Bill 3746, which amends the Texas Business and Commerce Code §521.053, requires the Texas Attorney General’s Office to post the breach notifications to its public-facing website. Notifications must be uploaded to the website within 30 days of receipt, and listings of organizations impacted by a…

  PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and the Brazilian Association of Credit Card and Services Companies (ABECS) talk about the threat of malware attacks in Brazil and the larger global payment environment and share guidance and information on protecting against them.

Cisco’s Talos team said 35% of incidents led back to Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities reported early in 2021, but new ransomware families have been appearing to fill the Emotet hole, too. Rawpixel, Getty Images/iStockphoto Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Group has released its incident response trends report for spring 2021, and found that Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities reported in early 2021 were the most detected incident over the past three months. Talos said the four Exchange Server…

The cybersecurity skills gap is caused by a lack of vision in the industry rather than it being a pipeline problem, argued Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs at Cisco, during her keynote address on day three of the Infosecurity Europe virtual conference. Nather, who was recently inducted into the Infosecurity Hall of Fame, believes it is a complete misnomer that there is a lack of talent available to fill the expanding number of security roles. Instead,…

Introduction Virtualization technology has been an IT cornerstone for organization for years now. It revolutionized the way organizations can scale up IT systems in a heartbeat, allowing then to be more agile as opposed to investing into dedicated “bare-metal” hardware. To the outside untrained eye, it might seem that there are different machines on the network, while in fact all the “separate” machines are controlled by a hypervisor server. Virtualization plays such a big role…