Prison for AT&T Phone-Unlocking Fraudster

Prison for AT&T Phone-Unlocking Fraudster

A cyber-criminal who defrauded American telecommunications giant AT&T out of more than $200m through a phone-unlocking bribery scheme has been sentenced to prison. Muhammad Fahd, a 35-year-old citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, led a seven-year conspiracy in which AT&T employees were bribed to unlawfully unlock nearly two million customers’ cell phones for profit. The plot began in 2012 when Fahd colluded with others to recruit AT&T staff working at a call center in Bothell, Washington. The employees…

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CVE-2021-38647 (OMIGOD): Critical Flaw Leaves Azure Linux VMs Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

CVE-2021-38647 (OMIGOD): Critical Flaw Leaves Azure Linux VMs Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution

Agents installed by default on Azure Linux virtual machines are vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw that can be exploited with a single request. Background On September 14, researchers at Wiz disclosed a set of four vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), an open source Common Information Model (CIM) management server used for managing Unix and Linux systems. CVE Description CVSSv3 VPR …

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Free REvil Decryptor Launched

Free REvil Decryptor Launched

Antivirus vendor Bitdefender has launched a free universal decryption tool to help victims of REvil ransomware, also known as Sodinokibi. The new tool, which was made available on Thursday, can restore many files impacted by the crypto-locking malware before July 13, 2021. However, the tool’s instructions include the warning that “some versions” of REvil “are not yet decryptable.” REvil victims can download the tool and a step-by-step tutorial on how to use it via the Bitdefender website. The free decryptor is…

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Have you tried to guess your boss’s password? Lots of workers have, according to a report

Have you tried to guess your boss’s password? Lots of workers have, according to a report

An August Beyond Identity report takes a look at people’s password protection habits as well as their tendencies to guess other folk’s passwords. Image: GettyImages/GaudiLab In recent months, a slew of cyberattacks has hamstrung critical aspects of U.S. infrastructure including domestic meat and petroleum production as network security concerns take center stage amid soaring ransomware payouts. Last month, Beyond Identity published the results of a survey highlighting password protection habits, office password “guessing games” and…

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New Tech Fights Suicide with Analytics – Cisco Blogs

New Tech Fights Suicide with Analytics – Cisco Blogs

If you feel trigged by this article’s content, please contact a suicide prevention hotline immediately. In the U.S., the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s # is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, the Samaritans can be reached at 116 123. Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741741 (US), 686868 (Canada), or 85258 (UK). This month, September, is National Suicide Prevention Month in the United States. Alice Hendy lost her brother, Josh, when he was…

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Dell study finds most organizations don’t think they can recover from a ransomware attack

Dell study finds most organizations don’t think they can recover from a ransomware attack

Sixty-seven percent lack confidence in their ability to recover business-critical data, which is troubling given that the amount of data businesses manage has grown by more than 10x since 2016. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The conclusions that Dell draws from its annual Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) for 2021 should serve as a warning to anyone in the data security community: Emerging technologies and ransomware are making it harder to secure data, and the problem is…

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New CIOs: 5 Key Steps in Your First 100 Days

New CIOs: 5 Key Steps in Your First 100 Days

Getting the first 100 days right is critical to achieving momentum, credibility, and long-term success. By Etay Maor, Senior Director, Security Strategy, Cato Networks Starting off as a new CIO in a tough, dynamic environment can be daunting. CIOs must juggle multiple issues like coping with hybrid workplaces, changing cybersecurity and compliance protocols, increasing ransomware attacks and high expectations from the board, to name but a few. New CIOs need to tackle biased perceptions, make…

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Small businesses need to step up efforts to secure and retain hybrid workers

Small businesses need to step up efforts to secure and retain hybrid workers

Only 31% are shipping laptops to employees and nearly half have spent their own money on a remote workspace, a survey from GetApp finds. Image: GetApp It’s pretty clear that hybrid work is here to stay, for the foreseeable future, anyway, and yet, only 31% of small businesses are shipping laptops to at least some employees, according to a new report.  The Tech at Work survey from GetApp, part of Gartner Digital Markets, also found…

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Using Infrastructure as Code to deploy F5 Application Delivery and Cisco ACI Service Chaining – Cisco Blogs

Using Infrastructure as Code to deploy F5 Application Delivery and Cisco ACI Service Chaining – Cisco Blogs

Every data center is built to host applications and provide the required infrastructure for the applications to run, communicate with each other, be accessed by their users from anywhere, and scale on demand. To achieve this, your data center network must be able to provide different types of connectivity to different applications. This includes east-west connectivity between application tiers, as well as north-south connectivity between users and applications. Both rely on additional application delivery Layer…

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8 tough questions to drive the right AppSec reporting solution and DevSecOps

8 tough questions to drive the right AppSec reporting solution and DevSecOps

8 tough questions to drive the right AppSec reporting solution and DevSecOps | 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…

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