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Advanced threats constantly evolve. This year saw multiple examples of advanced persistent threats under the spotlight, allowing us to predict what threats might lead the future. Image: Profit_Image/Shutterstock Advanced persistent threats, which focus on cyberespionage goals, are a constant threat to companies, governments and freedom activists, to name a few. This activity keeps growing and evolving as more threat actors increase their skill. SEE: Google Chrome: Security and UI tips you need to know  (TechRepublic…

Entertainment company Sky took more than 17 months to fix a security flaw that impacted roughly six million routers belonging to its customers.  The DNS rebinding vulnerability was discovered in May 2020 by Raf Fini, a researcher at British cybersecurity company Pen Test Partners.  Six router models were affected by the flaw: Sky Hub 3, Sky Hub 3.5, Booster 3, Sky Hub, Sky Hub 4, and Booster 4.  “It affected users with the default router’s admin password (admin:sky),…

Looking for a Hot High Paying Cyber Security Job?  Look No Further – Enter CyberDefenseProfessionals.com In the third quarter of 2021, Cyber Defense Media Group, the cybersecurity industry’s leading publisher and provider of daily infosec news from around the globe, initiated the service of Cyber Defense Professionals, a free Online Cybersecurity Jobs Portal, after spinning out from Ingersoll Lockwood, Inc. COST OF CYBERCRIME: “Cybercrime has surpassed Drug Crime as the largest form of global thievery…

A British man has admitted being a member of an international video piracy ring that illegally distributed “nearly every movie released by major production studios.” On Thursday, before United States District Judge Richard M. Berman, George Bridi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Bridi, who is 52 years old, has been part of Sparks Group – described by Europol as “one of the biggest online piracy groups…

The United States has charged two Iranian computer hackers in connection with a cyber-campaign intended to influence the outcome of America’s 2020 presidential election. An indictment unsealed in New York on Thursday alleges that 24-year-old Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and 27-year-old Sajjad Kashian conspired with others to intimidate and influence American voters, undermine voter confidence, and create societal discord. Starting in approximately August 2020, Kazemi, Kashian, and other co-conspirators allegedly began a four-pronged campaign that included…

Best practices to defend and respond to cyber-attacks, drawing on analogies with the COVID-19 pandemic, were set out by Brian Honan, CEO, BH Consulting, during this week’s IRISSCON 2021. Honan began by warning organizations: “What you put in place to defend or secure your network won’t stop the attackers. It will delay the attackers, but a sophisticated attacker will get by your systems eventually, so what you need to do is design your security to delay…

Commentary: AI is considered “world changing” by policymakers, but it’s unclear how to ensure positive outcomes. Image: iStock/metamorworks According to a new Clifford Chance survey of 1,000 tech policy experts across the United States, U.K., Germany and France, policymakers are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence, but perhaps not nearly enough. Though policymakers rightly worry about cybersecurity, it’s perhaps too easy to focus on near-term, obvious threats while the longer-term, not-obvious-at-all threats of AI…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the company has been invited to be a member of the 2021 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), one of the world’s leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks, for the second consecutive year. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: … Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the company has been…

Cyber veteran Eugene Kaspersky outlined the need to transition from cybersecurity to cyber-immunity during a session at this week’s IRISSCON 2021. Kaspersky, CEO of the Russian-headquartered IT security vendor of the same name, said humanity is entering a new stage of its evolution – the cyber age. In this era, we will become increasingly reliant on digital technology, which will offer huge benefits to individuals and society at large. However, there are significant barriers to this…