US Imprisons Dark Web Moderator

US Imprisons Dark Web Moderator

A man from Southern Illinois who moderated a website focused on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been sent to federal prison for 12 years and 7 months. Thirty-seven-year-old Sparta resident Kory R. Schulein was indicted by a federal grand jury in October 2020 on a single count of knowingly receiving CSAM over the internet.  Prosecutors said the unemployed man from Randolph County spent years downloading, sharing, and storing videos and images of minors being…

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UK Gun Owners’ Data Exposed

UK Gun Owners’ Data Exposed

The personal information of more than 100,000 UK-based firearm owners appears to have been leaked online. The data was reportedly published on the blog of an animal rights activist in the form of a reformatted CSV file. When imported into Google Earth, the file showed individual home addresses where guns were believed to be stored, along with owners’ zip codes, phone numbers, IP addresses and email addresses.  Blog readers were encouraged to “contact as many [gun owners]…

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Cisco Developer Days – More Than a Parachute

Cisco Developer Days – More Than a Parachute

How in the world can you compare Cisco Developer Days to skydiving? Well, whether you’re a skydiver or a programmer, having the best people around you is as important. That goes for first-timers as well as experienced jumpers. Knowing you have people around you who have done numerous successful jumps can reduce stress and inspire you to take on the challenge! Since I did my first jump earlier this summer, I’ve been thinking about what…

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How Trustworthy is Your Cyber Defense?

How Trustworthy is Your Cyber Defense?

Make your cybersecurity spending pay off with added defense tactics and provider accreditation By Tom Brennan, Chairman, CREST USA Cyber criminals are branching out from the big guys, the Facebook-type large scale breaches, to the small-to-medium-sized enterprises. A new global study by Analysys Mason shows SMB’s are paying attention: they estimate SMBs spent $57 billion on cyber-security in 2020, and anticipate this figure hitting $90 billion in 2025. By nature, SMBs work with less security budget…

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Magnetic Cloud 2021: How Cisco Partners with the Cloud Startup Ecosystem – Cisco Blogs

Magnetic Cloud 2021: How Cisco Partners with the Cloud Startup Ecosystem – Cisco Blogs

It’s a brave new world for startups looking to enter the cloud market. According to McKinsey, over 90% of organizations say that COVID-19 accelerated their adoption of cloud – and with good reason: The cloud offers unparalleled advantages in terms of speed, scale, and agility…and with it, a new level of complexity. Today we have a world where developers are running fast. However, Ops and Cloud Ops are struggling because they’re trying to manage across…

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FIN7 Using Windows 11 Alpha-Themed Docs to Drop Javascript Backdoor

FIN7 Using Windows 11 Alpha-Themed Docs to Drop Javascript Backdoor

Authored by: Gage Mele, Tara Gould, Rory Gould, and Sean Townsend Key Findings Anomali Threat Research discovered six malicious Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents with Visual Basic macros being used to drop JavaScript payloads, including a Javascript backdoor. While we cannot conclusively identify the attack vector for this activity, our analysis. strongly suggests the attack vector was an email phishing or spearphishing campaign. We assess with moderate confidence that the financially motivated threat group FIN7…

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VMware to Present at the Piper Sandler Global Technology Conference

VMware to Present at the Piper Sandler Global Technology Conference

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s chief executive officer will present at the Piper Sandler Global Technology Conference as a keynote speaker on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor Relations page at … Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE:…

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VMware to Present at the Jefferies Virtual Software Conference

VMware to Present at the Jefferies Virtual Software Conference

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s chief executive officer will present at the Jefferies Virtual Software Conference on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. PT/ 4:00 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor Relations page at http://ir.vmware.com. The … Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading…

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Cisco Catalyst 9100 series, much more than Wi-Fi connectivity – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Catalyst 9100 series, much more than Wi-Fi connectivity – Cisco Blogs

Are you one of those people who, when entering a new building (such as a hotel, corporate office, stadium, hospital—literarily any building) the first thing you do is look up to spot the presence of an access point (AP)? What? You don’t? You don’t know what you are missing! Yes, I am one of those people. Call it professional deviation, but when entering a building I must check if there is a Wi-Fi signal, where…

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Execs don’t sound very confident about long-term network security in the WFH era

Execs don’t sound very confident about long-term network security in the WFH era

After a somewhat clunky initial switch to remote work, it looks like hybrid offices are here to stay; at least for now. But a new report highlights concerns about the long-term resiliency of remote networks. Image: GettyImages/Laurence Dutton On Wednesday, Sungard Availability Services published the results of a survey highlighting sentiments about hybrid work moving forward, critical tools for remote employees and network security. While many companies are planning for long-term remote operations, faith in…

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