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A malware campaign targeting Android devices in the United States and Canada with convincing text messages and links that lead to a downloader has highlighted the danger from SMS spam and phishing, security experts report. The campaign, dubbed TangleBot, uses coronavirus-themed messages to convince users to click a link, which leads to websites that attempt to collect sensitive information from the victim, according to researchers from email and messaging security firm Cloudmark in a September 23…

FS-ISAC (The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) has announced that global cyber intelligence sharing among its member financial firms has soared by 60% from August 2020 to August 2021, caused by supply chain and ransomware threats.  Record-breaking levels of intelligence sharing across all regions occurred due to large-scale threats. These areas included North America; Latin America; Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Commenting on the news, FS-ISAC said that attacks…

VMware Cloud on AWS introduced SDDC Groups and VMware Transit Connect last year  – a construct to organize SDDCs along with high bandwidth connectivity for SDDCs in a Group. Transit Connect also provides a simple and scalable solution to connect to AWS VPCs and on-premises data centers over Direct Connect Gateway. Together, they enable customers to expand their deployments while laying the foundation for new features such as vCenter Linking. SDDC Group Connectivity to Transit…

Commentary: Open source has never been more popular or more under attack, but there’s something cloud providers can do to make OSS more secure. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock TechRepublic contributing writer Jack Wallen is correct that “Open source software has proved itself, time and time and time again, that it is business-grade for a very long time.” Sonatype is also correct that supply chain attacks against popular open source software repositories jumped 650% over the…

The protected health information of hundreds of thousands of Americans has been exposed in two separate security incidents at eye-care providers in the United States. Simon Eye Management reported a data breach to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on September 14. An email hacking incident at the Delaware-based eye-care group exposed the data of 144,000 individuals. According to a notice issued by Simon Eye, suspicious activity “related to certain employee email accounts”…

After more than a century of technological innovation since the first units rolled off Henry Ford’s assembly lines, automobiles, and transportation bear little in common with the Model T era. This evolution will continue as society finds better ways to achieve the outcome of moving people from point A to point B. While Secure Web Gateways (SWGs) have operated on a far more compressed timetable, a similarly drastic evolution has taken place. SWGs are still…

Issuing and installing SSL certificates doesn’t have to be a challenge, especially when there are tools like acme.sh available. Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use this handy script. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Installing SSL certificates isn’t difficult, but it’s a process every Linux administrator will have to take on at some point in their career. One of the more popular methods of getting and installing SSL certificates on Linux is by way of…

An alert has been issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over Conti ransomware. In the warning, which was posted on September 22, the agencies observed the increased use of Conti in more than 400 attacks against organizations in the United States and internationally.  The alert said that Conti actors often get network access via spearphishing campaigns, stolen or weak Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials, phone calls, fake software…