European Police Bust €10m Mafia Fraud Ring

European Police Bust €10m Mafia Fraud Ring

European police claim to have dismantled an organized crime group that made €10m from online fraud, drug trafficking and property crimes last year. The operation involved the Spanish and Italian national police, with Europol and Eurojust coordinating. The group itself, which was linked to the Italian mafia, is suspected of defrauding hundreds of victims via phishing attacks, business email compromise (BEC), SIM swapping and other types of online fraud. It is said to have laundered…

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Farming Group Warns of Supply Chain Chaos After Ransomware Attack

Farming Group Warns of Supply Chain Chaos After Ransomware Attack

An Iowan agricultural group hit by ransomware over the weekend appears to have claimed that the impact of the attack on the US public could be worse than the Colonial Pipeline incident. The attack has been traced to BlackMatter, a group that some believe has links to the DarkMatter outfit responsible for the days-long oil supply outage in May, which sent prices soaring on the East Coast. According to reports, it targeted New Cooperative, a major US grain producer, with…

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Refresh infrastructure for the future of IT – Expert guidance at VMworld 2021 – Cloud Blog – VMware

Refresh infrastructure for the future of IT – Expert guidance at VMworld 2021 – Cloud Blog – VMware

In all the buzz about cloud computing infrastructure and the benefit of moving workloads to the cloud, there is a critical use case to the virtualization pros managing data center and private cloud infrastructure – modernizing to a fully virtualized environment that delivers resource efficiency, app modernization, and a seamless connection to the public cloud and edge. That modernization is delivered by Hyperconverged Infrastructure, or HCI. It’s the full virtualization of data center infrastructure –…

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The IT challenges of hybrid working – IT Governance UK Blog

The IT challenges of hybrid working – IT Governance UK Blog

For years, cyber security experts have predicted a shift towards hybrid working – but they weren’t expecting it to come so suddenly and as a result of a global crisis. Nonetheless, they have been proven right, with millions of organisations deciding to keep their remote set-up even as the pandemic subsides. To make hybrid work a success, though, organisations must regularly evaluate their IT processes. According to a UKG study, 87% of UK employers accelerated…

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Migrate to the cloud to unlock app innovation – Lessons from VMworld 2021 – Cloud Blog – VMware

Migrate to the cloud to unlock app innovation – Lessons from VMworld 2021 – Cloud Blog – VMware

Migrating your workloads to the cloud has never been easier. Even your business-critical apps – those that can’t risk any downtime or changes to security posture – can be migrated seamlessly using VMware infrastructure, with no changes to the app. You may have thought this was impossible and sounds too good to be true. Well, that’s what we do at VMware, make the seemingly impossible, possible. Learn how Stirling National Bank executed a seamless cloud…

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Announcing FedRAMP High Agency Authorization for VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud(US) – Cloud Blog – VMware

Announcing FedRAMP High Agency Authorization for VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud(US) – Cloud Blog – VMware

VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) has reached FedRAMP Authority to Operate at the High Impact Level. The service brings VMware’s rich SDDC software to the AWS GovCloud (US) region, allowing US government agencies to securely run applications across vSphere®-based environments with optimized access to native AWS services. We are excited to announce that VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud(US) service has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level agency authorization. This…

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Mobile application fraud & abuse: Four things you need to know

Mobile application fraud & abuse: Four things you need to know

Mobile application fraud & abuse: Four things you need to know | 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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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) – A Model for Everyone

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) – A Model for Everyone

Data breaches have reached a fever pitch over the last few years. The rapid frequency of successful attacks coupled with the rising costs to businesses has raised attention at the highest levels of global governments. In the past, breaches were relatively “localized,” that is, they affected the targeted company only. However, the newer attacks have disrupted entire supply chains. While many companies have invested large sums to protect against such attacks, part of a fulsome security program…

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How to Report a Data Breach per GDPR | The State of Security

How to Report a Data Breach per GDPR | The State of Security

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Act is a broad set of data privacy rules that define how an organization must handle and protect the personal data of citizens of the European Union (EU). The Regulation also outlines the way that organizations can report a data breach. Articles 33 and 34 outline the requirements for breach notification; however, most businesses are still unaware of their responsibilities. Details such as what an organization should report, when, to…

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Misconfigurations are the biggest threat to cloud security, period

Misconfigurations are the biggest threat to cloud security, period

By eSentire There is no doubt that cloud adoption is accelerating at an exponential rate. Whether it’s for business collaboration or to store critical data assets, organizations are increasingly relying on the cloud–– in fact, recent reports have found that 62% of organizations utilize at least two cloud platforms. As a result of this acceleration, we have also seen a multitude of data breaches occurring due to misconfigurations in the cloud, which occur because of…

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