RSS_Virtulization

Audacity software has been acquired, and the new verbiage added to the privacy policy has the open-source community up in arms. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock Audacity. Surely, you’ve heard of it. It’s one of the most widely used apps by podcasters everywhere. It’s one open-source project that has managed to strike the perfect balance between feature list and usability. It has everything you could possibly need to record podcasts, music and just about any type…

The REvil group is claiming that over 1 million devices have been infected and is demanding $70 million for a universal decryption key. Image: Shutterstock/Vchal A ransomware attack against a single company’s software product is having a ripple effect across more than 1,000 organizations. On July 3, enterprise IT firm Kaseya revealed a successful cyberattack against its VSA product, a program used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to remotely monitor and administer IT services for…

Zero-day vulnerabilities in popular remote monitoring and management software targeted by threat actors to distribute ransomware to reportedly over one million systems. Background On July 2, reports emerged that a number of companies whose networks are administered by managed service providers (MSPs) using Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA), a remote monitoring and management (RMM) software from Kaseya Limited, became the victims of a large-scale ransomware attack. The attacks have been attributed to REvil, also known…

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

Families are hitting the road again. And it’s absolutely no surprise that they’re taking their smartphones with them. Perhaps what is surprising is that so many of them may be hitting the road without any digital or mobile protection.  Our recent research shows that 68% of people in the U.S. said that they’re planning to travel for leisure this year, slightly higher than the international average of 64%.1 However, our research also discovered that nearly half of them don’t use mobile security software to protect themselves or their smartphones.   That lack of protection is a concern, particularly as our April 2021…

Administrators are urged to apply the latest patches from Microsoft and disable the Windows Print spooler service in domain controllers and systems not used for printing. Image: iStock/weerapatkiatdumrong Microsoft is grappling with a couple of security holes in its Windows Print spooler service that could allow attackers to remotely control an affected system. Anyone able to exploit the more recent vulnerability of the two would be able to run code on the compromised computer with…

This is part three (cloud services) in a nine-part series introducing a framework for assessing multi-cloud use maturity.  A comprehensive eBook on the framework can be found here.  At the end of the blog, you’ll find a link to all other blogs in the series. Competency area #2: Getting more from “aaS” IaaS was the initial value proposition that drove the growth of the public cloud.  Today, IaaS is simply the first step on a…

Brits have lost over £1bn to fraud and cybercrime in the first six months of 2021, according to money.co.uk’s latest Quarterly Fraud and Cyber Crime Report. The analysis revealed that 81,018 fraud and cybercrime-related police reports were issued in Q2 2021, with UK residents experiencing a total loss of £382.3m due to these crimes. Interestingly, this represents a significant decrease compared with Q1 2021, when there were 137,695 reports. The personal finance advisory firm believes this decline…

The Japanese military is set to add hundreds of new cybersecurity specialists to its forces in the face of aggression from hostile nations, according to a new report. Ministry of Defense plans seen by Nikkei revealed that there were 660 such personnel in the country’s Self Defense Forces (SDF) at the end of fiscal 2020. However, the plan is to increase this figure to 800 by the end of March 2022 and over 1000 by…