Author: Asad Yaseen

Google: How and when to change your password Length: 0:55 | Jan 21, 2021 If you’ve ever been tempted to change your Google account password, but weren’t sure how, don’t let that confusion stop you. Jack Wallen walks you through the process. Source link

VMware has had a long history of providing federal, state and local government agencies with software products that simplified the operation and management of IT. As a part of this commitment, we announced several exciting service updates on VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) in February 2020, and VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) achieved the FedRAMP Ready High designation with Joint Authorization Board (JAB) about six months ago. As we are continuing with the…

The number of breaches may have fallen, but the number of exposed records hit a high not seen since 2005, says Risk Based Security. Image: iStockphoto/Rawpixel Data breaches now seem to be a never-ending story as we constantly hear about one company after another being compromised. The true damage of these breaches lies in how much private or confidential information is exposed. Though the number of reported breaches may have declined last year, the number…

Medical records belonging to truck drivers and rail workers may have been exposed following an alleged cyber-attack on an occupational healthcare provider in Virginia.  Data apparently belonging to employees of the United Parcel Service (UPS) and Norfolk Southern Railroad was published online to a leak site by the gang behind Conti ransomware. The cyber-criminals claimed to have obtained the data during a December cyber-attack on Taylor Made Diagnostics (TMD). The HIPAA Journal reported that the leaked data includes full…

Fourteen people have been arrested in France as part of a nationwide sweep to combat the sexual exploitation of children online.  The arrests were made by the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie nationale) with the support of Europol as part of an operation that was code-named Horus. All suspects were taken into custody between November 16 and November 20, 2020. In a statement released yesterday, Europol said: “The alleged suspects used social media networks to approach minors aged between…

A team of enterprise resource planning security experts in Massachusetts have identified a functional exploit affecting SAP that is publicly available. The exploit was discovered by Onapsis Research Labs on code-hosting platform GitHub, where it had been published by Russian researcher Dmitry Chastuhin on January 14. Researchers said the exploit can be used against SAP SolMan, the administrative system used in every SAP environment that is similar to Active Directory in Windows. The fully functional exploit abuses United States’…