Author: Asad Yaseen

Carefully allocating limited resources lets districts get the best bang for the buck. By Saryu Nayyar, CEO, Gurucul While we read about a lot of high profile cyberattacks against large organizations, and even sophisticated long-term attacks by State actors against well respected security companies, the reality is that cybercriminals are more likely to go after “low hanging fruit” before they engage with a high profile, well defended, target.  The “target of opportunity” mentality is easy…

Tenable Holdings today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Active Directory security startup Alsid SAS for $98m in cash. Alsid specializes in providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that monitors the security of Active Directory in real time. The company was founded in France in 2016 by two former incident responders from the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), Emmanuel Gras and Luc Delsalle.  After securing €13m in Series A funding in 2019, Alsid entered into…

Welcome to AI/ML Brain Food Part 2 – What’s on the menu. This second article follows up on the previous part, AI/ML Brain Food – Part 1: Where to Start?    We will take the foundation from before and layer on top a question – “What tools are available to help me prepare for AI/ML workloads?”     Today, we’re focusing on getting your on-prem private/hybrid cloud ready for AI/ML type workloads. Most of this…

21 of the 24 dating apps examined were tagged with the “*Privacy Not Included” warning label. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Dating has been a lot tougher for singles since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many people onto dating apps to supplement the real thing. Most dating apps require users to enter a significant amount of information for safety purposes, but a new report from Mozilla has found that some of the most popular dating…

It’s been one year since we started publishing the Docker Index (stats, trends and analysis from developers and dev teams based on anonymized data from millions of Docker users). At that time we saw how Docker was being used at an incredible scale to power application building globally. Today we are excited to share the latest edition of the Docker Index, this time with some yearly and quarterly comparisons.  Every time we pull these user…

Malware designed to steal log-in information saved in browsers has infected 16 million computers and swiped credentials for up to 174,800 accounts. Image: iStockphoto/ArtHead- It can be annoying when a family member or friend changes a Netflix password on the account that you’ve been sharing with them. That can be fixed (usually) with a call or text to get the new password. The solution is not so easy if a cybercriminal has stolen the account…

Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us – and as couples and singletons alike gear up for a day that’s traditionally all about sharing, when it comes to our digital identities, might we be sharing too much, and how can we protect ourselves? With data showing that past, present and possibly even future lovers are willing to secretly snoop on your online information to find out all about you, it’s safe to say that ill-intentioned online…

Malicious Valentine’s Day-themed phishing campaigns are up 29% from last year, according to Check Point Research. Valentine’s Day-themed phishing campaigns are up 29% from last year, according to Check Point Research. Image: Check Point Research Love may be blind, but cybercriminals are not. Over 400 malicious Valentine’s Day-themed phishing individual email campaigns were spotted on a weekly basis in January, according to Check Point Research. There was also a 29% year-over-year increase in Valentine’s Day-themed…

ScreenConnect Remote Access Tool Utilizing Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Themed EXEs and URLs Authored by: Gage Mele, Winston Marydasan, and Yury Polozov Key Findings Anomali Threat Research identified a campaign targeting government agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and likely the broader Middle East. We assess that Iran-nexus cyberespionage group Static Kitten, due to Israeli geopolitical-themed lures, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) references, and the use of file-storage service Onehub that was attributed to their…