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The FBI has fixed a misconfigured web portal that allowed hacktivists to send thousands of fake emails to recipients. News emerged over the weekend that individuals were receiving emails purporting to come from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Network and Analysis Group, but which had been sent from a @ic.fbi.gov account. According to screenshots shared on Twitter, they warned of “exfiltration of several of your virtualized clusters in a sophisticated chain attack” — blaming a…

McAfee Enterprise and FireEye recently teamed to release their 2022 Threat Predictions. In this blog, we take a deeper dive into cloud security topics from these predictions focusing on the targeting of API services and apps exploitation of containers in 2022. 5G and IoT Traffic Between API Services and Apps Will Make Them Increasingly Lucrative Targets Recent statistics suggest that more than 80% of all internet traffic belongs to API-based services. It’s the type of…

The past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of my free time preparing for the OSCP exam, which means refreshing a lot of skills that I haven’t used in years. A large part of that is rebuilding muscle memory around buffer overflows, so that’s how I spent my four-day weekend. I logged about 70 hours compiling small programs, writing buffer overflows, building simple ROP chains, and honestly having a lot of fun. When I…

Data security and privacy are today a prime focus for most organizations globally. While there have been several regulations and standards introduced to improve data security, the evolving landscape makes it challenging for organizations to stay compliant. For many organizations, GDPR and PCI DSS are the first topics that come to mind when privacy is concerned. While GDPR is an international data privacy law for securing personal data, PCI DSS is a data security standard…

By Eileen Haggerty, Sr. Director, Enterprise Business Operations, NETSCOUT The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and increased organizations’ reliance on cloud services, VPNs, and other solutions designed to support remote work. These changes have redefined, if not destroyed, the idea of the traditional security perimeter. At the same time, the pandemic led to a massive increase in DDoS attacks and ransomware attacks. Globally, 2020 saw more than 10 million DDoS attacks, the most ever, with a…