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The United States is planning to create a new government department that will deal with matters of digital policy and cybersecurity.  On Monday, Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced plans for the State Department to launch a Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, in an email to the department’s workforce.  In the email, Blinken reportedly stated: “This structure will provide us with greater leadership and accountability to drive the diplomatic agenda with the interagency and abroad and…

What goes better together than focaccia, pizza, and old friends? For VMworld this year, I hosted three legends of VMware at my house in San Jose for an exciting, food-filled discussion on all things past and future about the company and cloud. Watch it here. If you weren’t around at the early stages of the company, here’s a recap of the contributions from this group: Steve Herrod worked on the original PHD research for VMware,…

An international law enforcement action has led to the arrest of 150 individuals worldwide on suspicion of buying or selling illicit goods on the dark web.  Operation Dark HunTor involved the combined effort of police forces in nine different countries who carried out a series of separate but complementary actions, coordinated by Europol and Eurojust.  Following actions in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 234kg of drugs…

The stakes may not be as high as in the hit Netflix show, but you could still lose your data or identity if you fail to follow the rules for dodging the latest brand of pop-culture-themed scams. An advertisement for a game purporting to be a digital version of Squid Game with a cryptocurrency prize that is, in fact, a scam. Image: Kaspersky South Korean Netflix show Squid Game has become a runaway hit, surpassing…

A man from Colorado is facing a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after admitting to falsifying clinical trial data. Duniel Tejeda, formerly of Miami, Florida, acted outside the law while employed as both a project manager and a study coordinator for clinical drug trials at Tellus Clinical Research, a medical clinic based in Miami. On Tuesday, the 35-year-old Canon City, Colorado, resident pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Robert Scola Jr. of the Southern…

A phishing campaign took advantage of the mail relay function on Craigslist, which allows attackers to remain anonymous, Inky says. Image: GrafVishenka, Getty Images/iStockPhotos Cybercriminals will look for any weakness or limitation in an otherwise legitimate service to help them carry out an attack. That’s true of a new phishing campaign that uses both Craigslist and OneDrive to trick people into installing malware. A report published Tuesday by email security provider Inky describes how this…