Author: Asad Yaseen

News Detail Companies to Establish a Joint Innovation Lab to Accelerate Customers’ Ability to Build, Run, Manage, Connect, and Protect Applications Across Distributed Infrastructure DENVER & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced a significant expansion of their partnership to fast-track the design, development, and delivery of … Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 Companies to Establish a Joint Innovation Lab to Accelerate Customers’ Ability to Build, Run,…

Attacks against industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise. In its 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Report, for instance, IBM found that digital attacks targeting organizations’ ICS had increased by more than 2,000% between 2019 and 2018. Most of those attacks involved the exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other ICS hardware components as well as brute-force login attacks. IBM X-Force also documented the release of 200 ICS-related vulnerabilities in…

Suspected Chinese state-backed threat actors exploited a SolarWinds Orion bug to compromise a US government payroll agency, a new report has claimed. The campaign took place last year and was separate to the successful Russian cyber-espionage plot to spy on multiple government departments, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Although the report was unable to clarify how many organizations were targeted, it claimed that the National Finance Center, a federal payroll agency inside…

The Infosecurity industry came together virtually on January 29 2021 to raise money for the NSPCC’s Childline Service.  The White Hat Ball, which is normally hosted at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, is now in its 16th year and has raised more than £2m for Childline.  This year’s virtual format, White Hat’s Unforgettable Day, with headline sponsor KPMG, raised an impressive £66,000.  Hosted by actor Graham Cole, the event saw guest appearances from journalist…

It is the Tuesday morning after a long weekend. You come into work early to get caught up on emails only to find you are completely locked out. You have been hit by a ransomware attack. You ask yourself, “What happened? And how do I fix it?” This post will explore three of the most significant ransomware families of 2020: Tycoon, Ryuk and REvil. After discussing how these strains work, we’ll share some best practices…

Many organizations are migrating their workloads to the cloud. But there are challenges along the way. Specifically, security leaders are concerned about their ability to protect their cloud-based data using secure configurations. Tripwire found this out when it partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 310 professionals who held IT security responsibilities for their organizations’ public cloud environments across more than a dozen different sectors. In that study, 37% of respondents told Tripwire that their risk…