RSS_Virtulization

Three APT hacking groups from India, Russia, and China, were observed using a novel RTF (rich text format) template injection technique in their recent phishing campaigns. This technique is a simple yet effective method to retrieve malicious content from a remote URL, and threat analysts expect it to reach a wider audience of threat actors soon. Researchers at Proofpoint spotted the first cases of weaponized RTF template injection in March 2021, and since then, actors…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2021 Vendor Assessment (November 2021, IDC #US47279821). The solution, VMware SD-WAN, is a cloud-delivered solution that optimizes application performance over any WAN link, … Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software,…

Organizations are presenting their attackers with an open goal because of tool bloat, a lack of visibility into key assets, and misplaced confidence in their security controls, according to Panaseer. The security vendor polled 1,200 US and UK enterprise security decision-makers from various industries to compile its Panaseer 2022 Security Leaders Peer Report. It found that the shift to cloud and remote working has driven a 19% increase over the past two years in the number of…

First established in 1852, The Hanover Insurance Group is one of the oldest property and casualty insurance holding companies in existence. These days, the company is applying digital tools to streamline every aspect of the property and casualty (P&C) insurance value chain, from underwriting to claims. They’re even exploring the use of drones for risk management. Recently, I spoke with Hanover’s CIO Will Lee about how he and his team are driving these cutting-edge initiatives….

Security researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities in multi-function printers (MFPs) which impacted 150 product models. F-Secure security consultants Timo Hirvonen and Alexander Bolshev have written up their findings in a detailed report, Printing Shellz. Specifically, they found a physical access port vulnerability (CVE-2021-39237) and a font parsing bug (CVE-2021-39238) in HP’s MFP M725z device. They turned out to affect scores more products in the FutureSmart line dating back to 2013. CVE-2021-3928 is the more dangerous of the two…

One of the UK’s top spymasters has revealed that MI6 is pursuing partnerships with the technology industry to tackle the challenges posed by nation-states, cyber-criminals and global terrorists. Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), Richard Moore, explained in a rare speech yesterday that, unlike the character Q from the James Bond films, the service cannot source all of its tech capabilities in-house. “Through the National Security Strategic Investment Fund we are opening up our mission problems…

Technologies are available to better protect the data used in artificial intelligence, but they’re not quite ready for prime time, says Deloitte. Image: iStock/metamorworks With consumers concerned about their privacy and security, ensuring that user data is protected should be a top priority for any organization. That’s enough of a challenge with conventional processes. But throw artificial intelligence into the mix, and the obstacles become even greater. New tools that can better safeguard AI-based data…

Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief  CVE-2021-20322: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “it was DNS again.”  Why am I here?  For all our newcomers, welcome to the Advanced Threat Research team’s monthly bug report – a digest of all the latest and greatest vulnerabilities from the last 30-ish days based on merits just a tad more nuanced than sorting NVD by “CVSS > 9.0.” Instead, we focus on qualitative and experience-based analysis, relying on over 100 years of combined industry…

With lot of new features and capabilities announced at VMworld about a month back, VMware Cloud on AWS is going big again with some exciting announcements at re:Invent 2021. For last 4+ years, VMware Cloud on AWS has been helping customers in their hybrid cloud journey by providing them a deeply integrated hybrid cloud environment for vSphere workloads. Based on customer needs, we have released 17 major SDDC releases with 300+ new features and expanded…