Costco Issues Scam Warning

Costco Issues Scam Warning

Costco Wholesale Corporation is warning American internet users to be wary of more than a dozen digital scams targeting its customer base.  On its website, the American multinational corporation has published screenshots of 14 “prominent fraudulent emails, texts, and posts” in which cyber-criminals are impersonating Costco.  The majority of the traps use financial benefits to lure victims, promising free products, financial reimbursements, exclusive offers, cash-back rewards, and gift cards worth $50. Many try to trick to victims into…

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Securing the air with Cisco’s wireless security solution – Cisco Blogs

Securing the air with Cisco’s wireless security solution – Cisco Blogs

With the proliferation of IoT and BYOD devices, wireless security is top-of-the-mind for network administrators and customers. Globally, there will be nearly 628 million public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2023, which is almost four-fold increase from 2018. This will increase the attack surface and hence the vulnerability for the network. The total number of DDoS attacks is predicted to reach 15.4 million by 2023, more than double the number from 2018. Due to inherent open nature…

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Hands-On-Lab for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – VMware Cloud Community

Hands-On-Lab for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution – VMware Cloud Community

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution was made generally available on August 6th, 2020, in all oracle regions and Oracle’s dedicated region cloud@customer service offering. The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is a customer-managed, VMware Cloud Verified environment consisting of vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, vSAN, and NSX. Also included is VMware HCX to provide seamless migrations, network extension capabilities, and more from on-premises to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Customers have complete control over the environment, including the underlying ESXi hosts and VMware Host Client…

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Google Ordered to Provide Info on Alleged Cyber-bullies

Google Ordered to Provide Info on Alleged Cyber-bullies

A Canadian court has ordered American tech giant Google to disclose who has been operating a YouTube channel and a blog that have allegedly been used for cyber-bullying.  Wife and husband Sakura Saunders and Darius Mirshahi allege that whoever is behind the blog “Antifa: Exposed” and a YouTube channel they claim is linked to the blog, Undercoverkitty, has targeted them with insults and falsely accused both of them of being involved with a domestic terrorist organization.  The…

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INTERPOL to Work with The Coalition Against Stalkerware to Tackle Surge in Tech Abuse

INTERPOL to Work with The Coalition Against Stalkerware to Tackle Surge in Tech Abuse

INTERPOL is set to join The Coalition Against Stalkerware, and will help advance the group’s efforts by educating the global law enforcement community on how to proactively investigate the use of stalkerware, as well as provide support to victims. The alliance was first set up in November 2019 to try and combat the use of stalkerware, a practice in which victims are monitored through their phone or computer. Initially compromised of 10 stakeholders, including Kaspersky,…

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Cisco and NVIDIA Transform Disruption into Innovation – Cisco Blogs

Cisco and NVIDIA Transform Disruption into Innovation – Cisco Blogs

Almost every aspect of business has been impacted from some form of disruption. For instance, our work has changed so much we now find ourselves operating from just about anywhere. We live in a digital-first world with a new normal that is likely to stay with us into the foreseeable future. Disruption isn’t always a bad thing. It can also motivate and feed the necessity for innovation and invention. The pandemic forced businesses to become…

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One woman’s career in tech and her advice for women and girls – Cisco Blogs

One woman’s career in tech and her advice for women and girls – Cisco Blogs

Celebrating International Girls in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Day has never been more important. Recent data reveals a startling economic disparity caused by the pandemic – women losing jobs at almost twice the rate of men, leaving 47 million more women and girls around the world below the poverty line. This makes exposing women and girls to the wide range of career opportunities available in IT – the world’s fastest-growing job sector – critical to helping improve the…

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Inside Cisco’s performance in the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CKⓇ Evaluation

Inside Cisco’s performance in the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CKⓇ Evaluation

I am excited to share with you that Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints) has successfully completed the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation. This round is particularly rewarding because we had to face the difficult challenge of performing well against a set of simulated attacks from the formidable threat actors Carbanak and FIN7. I will not go into the details of our performance in the Evaluation – you can learn about them here instead….

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5 top open-source infrastructure projects

5 top open-source infrastructure projects

Open source software has been a key underpinning of enterprise IT for years, so it’s no surprise that it’s helping to drive the infrastructure part of the equation forward just as much as application development. Some projects are much more influential than others, and here are five that are doing the most to help enterprise infrastructure keep pace with the demands of an ever-more sophisticated operating environment. OpenStack OpenStack is notable in part for being…

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Payment Security in South Africa: A Discussion with Stakeholders

Payment Security in South Africa: A Discussion with Stakeholders

  The PCI SSC Security Summit of South Africa, an online event took place this week with more than 315 payment security practitioners from South Africa discussing the latest in payment security and standards. Here we talk with Jeremy King, PCI Security Standards Council VP Regional Head for Europe, Naniki Imelda Ramabi, Chief Risk Officer Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), and Sandro Bucchianeri, Group Chief Security Officer ABSA, about payment security trends, highlights from…

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