RSS_Virtulization

An affiliate of the Conti RaaS has leaked the training material shared by the group with its network along with the info about one of the operators. An affiliate of the Conti RaaS has leaked the training material provided by the group to the customers of its RaaS, he also published the info about one of the operators. The Conti Ransomware operators offer their services to their affiliates and maintain 20-30% of each ransom payment….

Average ransomware demands surged by 518% in the first half of 2021 compared to 2020, while payments climbed by 82% in the same period, according to new figures released by the Unit 42 security consulting group. The researchers revealed that the average demand from ransomware gangs in H1 2021 was $50m, representing a massive increase from $847,000 in 2020. They noted that the highest demand made of a single victim so far in 2021 was $50m, which compares…

Smart speakers. Banking online. Location tracking. If you are a senior adult, there’s no doubt, the digital leaps and bounds you’re asked to consider each day can be daunting. If you are the child of a senior adult trying to make digital life more accessible, helping your parent consistently stay safe online can also be a challenge.    According to the most recent  Pew study on the topic, senior adults continue to become more digitally connected, but adoption rates continue to trail younger users,…

Smart speakers. Banking online. Location tracking. If you are a senior adult, there’s no doubt, the digital leaps and bounds you’re asked to consider each day can be daunting. If you are the child of a senior adult trying to make digital life more accessible, helping your parent consistently stay safe online can also be a challenge.    According to the most recent  Pew study on the topic, senior adults continue to become more digitally connected, but adoption rates continue to trail younger users,…

Smart speakers. Banking online. Location tracking. If you are a senior adult, there’s no doubt, the digital leaps and bounds you’re asked to consider each day can be daunting. If you are the child of a senior adult trying to make digital life more accessible, helping your parent consistently stay safe online can also be a challenge.    According to the most recent  Pew study on the topic, senior adults continue to become more digitally connected, but adoption rates continue to trail younger users,…

Time is tight when you are on a cloud team or a DevOps role. You are asked to move something to a cloud platform you are not familiar with. As VMware forges partnerships with our Public Cloud Provider Partners (also known as Hyperscale partners), our customers now have the choice and flexibility to choose the appropriate Public Cloud Providers, in their preferred geographic region, to build, manage, secure and operate their VMware-based workloads. Click to…

Time is tight when you are on a cloud team or a DevOps role. You are asked to move something to a cloud platform you are not familiar with. As VMware forges partnerships with our Public Cloud Provider Partners (also known as Hyperscale partners), our customers now have the choice and flexibility to choose the appropriate Public Cloud Providers, in their preferred geographic region, to build, manage, secure and operate their VMware-based workloads. Click to…

Here’s how one security operations analyst, an expert at incident reporting, began her career, collaborates with her colleagues and prioritizes incoming threats. Image: ExpressVPN Twenty-six-year-old Cherlynn Cha, born and raised in Singapore, thought cybersecurity was “so cool” as a teenager. “The good guys get the bad guys,” she said, “or help each other using cool, cutting-edge technology.” Cha attended the National University of Singapore and studied computer science with a focus in cybersecurity, where she…

Around half of businesses (45.49%) and consumers (52.35%) on average saw at least one sustained additional infection in May 2021, according to the latest metrics from Webroot Brightcloud Mid Year Threat Report. In May 2021, the report revealed a 440% increase in phishing, holding the record for the single largest phishing spike in a single month. It also showed that industries such as oil, gas and mining saw a 47% increase in the same six-month…

Are you an organization that operates a Bulk Power System (BPS) in the United States? If so, you understand the need to comply with the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards. Developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), CIP is a set of requirements through which in-scope entities can protect themselves against digital attacks, thereby strengthening the reliability of the U.S. electric grid overall. The issue is that it is becoming more and more…