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The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense has apologized for sending an email that exposed the data of more than 250 Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.  The impacted interpreters are seeking to be relocated to the UK either from Afghanistan, where many are currently in hiding from the Taliban, which seized power in August, or from another country to which they have relocated.  The email – in which the interpreters’ email addresses, names, and some linked profile images were…

The University of Minnesota has announced a new center that aims to ensure that medical devices are safe and secured against cybersecurity threats.  The Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity (CMDC) was created after members of the medical device manufacturing industry called for a collaborative hub to facilitate discovery, outreach, and workforce training in device security.  CMDC will foster university-industry-government collaborations focusing on developing new education and training, technologies, and research to address potential threats to the cybersecurity…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Cobalt Strike, ELF, Data Leak, MSHTML, Remote Code Execution, Windows Subsystem, VBScript, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse…

“Wrapped” Bitcoin worth more than $12m has been stolen from the decentralized finance protocol pNetwork.  The cross-chain project announced the theft of 277 BTC on September 19 via Twitter, ascribing the hack to a codebase vulnerability.  The theft was executed on Binance Smart Chain, which featured in the biggest ever DeFi heist in history – the $610m Poly Network hack that took place in August. pNetwork supports multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, xDAI, EOS, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Telos and…

Emerging technologies like blockchain and AI should be seen as an opportunity and a threat, according to Professor Lisa Short, director and co-founder of Hephaestus Collective, whose rousing opening keynote addressed attendees of Infosecurity Magazine’s Autumn Online Summit – EMEA 2021. Short began by describing the vast digital shift that has taken place in recent years, noting that advancements in technology mean “revolutions” are now occurring in less than a generation. For example, the development of technologies like AI,…

A recent AtlasVPN report rounds up an inglorious cybersecurity top 10 of sorts, highlighting the companies that have amassed the most vulnerabilities in the first half of this year. Image: GettyImages/Petri Oeschger A string of recent cyberattacks have hamstrung critical aspects of U.S. infrastructure such as domestic meat and petroleum production, bringing conversations surrounding security front and center for companies around the globe. A recent AtlasVPN report highlights the companies that have amassed the most…

One of our goals on the VMware Cloud team is to help customers, engineers, teams, and stakeholders. Understand how to Create, Update, Migrate and Operate at scale across multiple platforms, cloud providers, and data center operating conditions. To focus on this we have started Cloud Stream. Our goal is to help you understand the many paths to cloud careers and the outcomes they can drive. Look a fancy logo! Cloud Stream by VMware is a…

When change affects people in your organization, remember that you have a wealth of talent that needn’t go to waste. Consider re-skilling to meet the company’s needs as well as the employees’. Image: fizkes, Getty Images/iStockphoto How many times have you heard a manager respond to employees about organizational change with the words, “It just made sense”? To workers who are adversely impacted by the change, it might not make sense at all. That’s exactly…