NCSC Website Takedowns Surge 15-Fold in 2020

NCSC Website Takedowns Surge 15-Fold in 2020

The UK authorities took down over 700,000 malicious and phishing sites last year, a huge increase from 2019, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The GCHQ body revealed the figures in its annual Active Cyber Defence (ACD) report. ACD is the NCSC’s four-year-old strategy to protect the public sector and, where possible, a broader audience. It does so via a toolkit of around 14 initiatives, headed by the Takedown Service, which involves finding and…

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UK/US: Patch These 11 Bugs Now to Thwart Russian Spies

UK/US: Patch These 11 Bugs Now to Thwart Russian Spies

The US and UK governments have released new information on the current tactics of Russian cyber-spies, including 11 vulnerabilities dating back to 2018 that are being used for initial access. The new report, Further TTPs associated with SVR cyber actors, was released by the UK’s National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency and FBI. It updates readers on the activities of the Russian Foreign Intelligence…

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Nvidia competitor Graphcore preps US initiative

Nvidia competitor Graphcore preps US initiative

A UK-based AI-chip startup is making its first moves into North American to take on Nvidia on its home turf in the enterprise with new channel and reseller partners. Founded in 2016, Graphcore makes what it calls Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and shipped its first product—the Colossus GC2 “massively parallel, mixed-precision floating point processor”—in 2018. In July 2020, it released its second-generation processor called GC200, but news of that was drowned out by all the…

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10 features of Windows Admin Center to streamline server administration

10 features of Windows Admin Center to streamline server administration

A lot of the value built into Windows Admin Center has to do with it being a remote-management tool that can have a lot of upside in a modern IT shop, including implementing best practices by not logging directly into servers, bringing flexibility to the management architecture, and performing admin tasks from high-DPI or touchscreen devices. Considered a complement to System Center, Admin Center is a free app, downloadable here, that runs in a browser…

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How does certificate-based authentication work?

How does certificate-based authentication work?

I find a few universal truths when mentioning certificates to people. Most people I speak with consider them to be a very secure concept almost without fail. However upon mentioning that I want to talk about certificates: that person’s face turns a slightly lighter shade, their eyes get a bit wider, and they have this immediate fight or flight instinct kick in. I can tell you, this is a subject that does not have to…

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Ransomware Takes Down East Coast Fuel Pipeline

Ransomware Takes Down East Coast Fuel Pipeline

The US government has been forced to issue emergency legislation after a ransomware attack knocked offline the country’s largest fuel pipeline. Colonial Pipeline confirmed over the weekend that it had suffered a serious cyber-attack. “Quickly after learning of the attack, Colonial proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat. These actions temporarily halted all pipeline operations and affected some of our IT systems, which we are actively in the process of restoring,” it said in…

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VMware Recognizes 2021 Partner Achievement Award Winners

VMware Recognizes 2021 Partner Achievement Award Winners

News Detail Partners Honored for Delivering Top Performance and Noteworthy Impact During Unprecedented Year PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced the winners of the VMware 2021 Partner Achievement Awards to honor select partners for extraordinary achievements aligned to key business priorities. The annual VMware Partner … Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 Partners Honored for Delivering Top Performance and Noteworthy Impact During Unprecedented Year PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS…

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Relativity Trace and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Seamless End-to-End Archive and Communication Surveillance Solution | Proofpoint US

Relativity Trace and Proofpoint Partner to Deliver Seamless End-to-End Archive and Communication Surveillance Solution | Proofpoint US

Unique partnership and integration foster ongoing innovation for communication monitoring Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, and Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading security and compliance company, today announced a partnership to integrate Proofpoint’s next-generation Enterprise Archiving and Compliance with Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform Relativity Trace. The Relativity Trace and Proofpoint partnership helps ensure customers can manage surveillance data within one single source of truth with a secure, best-in-class archiving and compliance…

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Bridging the gap: The digital divide

Bridging the gap: The digital divide

Bridging the gap: The digital divide | 2021-05-10 | 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. This Website…

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Sanofi’s North America security team drives COVID-19 response efforts

Sanofi’s North America security team drives COVID-19 response efforts

Sanofi’s North America security team drives COVID-19 response efforts | 2021-05-10 | 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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