Are your Zoom meetings secure? More collaboration means more vulnerabilities Length: 8:22 | Apr 22, 2021 While apps like Zoom, Slack, Teams and others are great for working from anywhere, they also create a larger attack surface. Source link
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Not to state the overly obvious, but companies have substantially accelerated their migration to the cloud over the last eighteen months. The pandemic forced them to get more done, faster, and often for less. And they found the cloud was the ultimate enabler. The move to the cloud, even with all of its promise, isn’t without challenges. Cloud-based applications may seem easy for individual users to access—just click and go. But, for IT departments, it’s…
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At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. According to coordinated reports published by FireEye and Pulse Secure, two hacking groups have exploited a new zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors and government organizations worldwide. The statement reveals that one of the two hacking groups was a China-linked cyber espionage group….
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Security professionals would be well-served with this Linux distribution that offers a wide range of penetration and vulnerability testing tools. Image: gorodenkoff/Getty Images/iStockphoto Sometimes, choosing a Linux distribution is a challenge. Given how many options are available, anyone faced with the selection could find their head spinning in a dizzying display of confusion. For certain types of users, the selection gets a bit more focused. A particular type of user is one who either places…
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Welcome to part 2 of the journey to Vanilla ISE, a simplified ISE GUI for endpoint technicians. In part 1 we covered the background and requirements for the UI. In this part 2, we will explore the relevant documentation to find the relevant API calls we will use. Documentation Exploration Once I had an idea for the functionality I needed to incorporate with the program, I started breaking it down to individual functions and individual…
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Many challenges NetDevOps teams run up against relate to staying true to the Source of Truth approach to automation. To truly matter, a Source of Truth must be used everywhere, not just where and when convenient. I recently tackled on of these challenges within our network automation projects over in Learning at Cisco. For more details on Source of Truth checkout The challenge was how to keep the device inventory in our Cisco NSO servers accurate…
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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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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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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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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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Introduction Cloud computing services have grown exponentially in