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Recent ransomware attacks indicate that the current model of cybersecurity isn’t working. It’s time for a wholesale rethink. Image: Bloomberg/Getty Images Once again, cybersecurity has become a headline topic within and well outside technology circles, along with the little-known operator of a significant fuel pipeline: Colonial Pipeline. A ransomware attack, and ensuing panic buying of gasoline, resulted in widespread fuel shortages on the east coast, thrusting the issue of cybersecurity into the lives of everyday…

Enterprises worldwide are making increasingly large investments in public cloud infrastructure to benefit from the promises of improved agility, faster time to market, and decreased risk. Cloud cost management and optimization can become a big challenge as organizations find that the decentralized nature and rapid scale of the public cloud lead to much larger bills than expected. Beyond surprisingly high costs, organizations often find their teams spending more time trying to track and account for…

Attackers could exploit a set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, affecting the Core and Mesh Profile specifications, to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Researchers at the french intelligence agency ANSSI discovered multiple flaws in the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile specifications that could be used to impersonate legitimate devices during the pairing process and conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks while within wireless range of vulnerable devices. All the devices supporting Bluetooth Core and Mesh specifications are affected by the above issues and are vulnerable to impersonation…

When industry analysts survey most security professionals these days, the common consensus is that it’s now harder to manage security operations than ever before. For example, a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research study showed that some 63 percent of security pros say that the job is tougher today than it was just two years ago. While there’s no doubt that the variety and volume of threats keep on growing by the year, the question…

A public relations agency in the UK has allegedly offered social media influencers money to portray the Covid-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech as highly dangerous.  Fazze allegedly offered to pay French and German bloggers, influencers and YouTubers to tell their followers that the vaccine had caused hundreds of deaths.  Over 285 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through May 24, 2021. During this time, the CDC’s…