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We all use container-based images to build applications, but can you trust them? Docker’s expansion of its trusted content offering, the Docker Verified Publisher Program, will make it easier. Image: Docker Hands up, how many of you build your own containerized-based applications? Be honest now! The truth is very few people do. It’s just so much easier to grab the pre-made bits and pieces that lie behind the special sauce on top of your application….

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a flash warning Thursday over the exploitation of Fortinet vulnerabilities by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. According to the FBI, an APT actor group has “almost certainly” been exploiting a FortiGate appliance since at least May 2021 to access a web server hosting the domain for a US municipal government. The APT actors may have established new user accounts on domain controllers, servers, workstations, and the active directories to…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s incoming chief executive officer will present at the Stifel 2021 Virtual Cross Sector Insight Conference on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 1:40 p.m. PT/ 4:40 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor Relations page at … Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW),…

A scammer who defrauded elderly American computer users by tricking them into believing that their computers had suffered a cyber-attack will be spending the next three years in federal prison. Himanshu Asri, of Delhi, India, took part in a five-year telemarketing scheme that conned around 2,000 computer users, most of whom were seniors.  The 34-year-old fraudster operated the call center in India that played an integral part in the Tech Fraud deception. Under the scheme,…

Operating in Russia, the Nobelium cybercrime group has targeted 3,000 email accounts across more than 150 organizations, says Microsoft. NicoElNino, Getty Images/iStockphoto The group behind the infamous SolarWinds hacks is on another cyberattack spree, this time targeting not just government agencies but others as well. In a report published Thursday, Microsoft revealed that the threat actor Nobelium launched a series of attacks this past week against government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations. More…

American multinational technology company Microsoft says that the threat group behind the Microsoft and SolarWinds hack has launched a massive new phishing campaign targeting government agencies, NGOs and think tanks.  Last year, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft and SolarWinds programs to carry out a supply-chain attack that trojanized SolarWinds’ Orion business software updates to distribute malware. Nine US federal agencies and over 100 companies were targeted. According to Microsoft, Russian-based APT group…

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A new charity initiative, which aims to raise money for two organizations that help tackle online child abuse and cybercrime respectively, has been announced by a group of cybersecurity professionals based in the UK and US. Infostep 2021 will see 25 volunteers from the Infostep Challenge group of cyber pros walk a total of 19,000 miles , equivalent to a mammoth 42,212,000 steps, over the next six months. This will primarily look to raise funds…

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned British internet users to protect their streaming accounts ahead of a summer of sport. The GCHQ offshoot warned that such accounts can hold a trove of valuable personal and financial information for threat actors to harvest and use to make fraudulent payments or launch follow-on phishing, smishing and vishing scams. “The UEFA Champions League final will kick off a great British summer of sport and those enjoying…

Nearly three-quarters of security operations (SecOps) leaders say their home lives are being impacted by the stresses of alert overload, according to a new global study from Trend Micro. The security vendor polled over 2300 cybersecurity decision-makers that run Security Operations Centers (SOCs) or SecOps from within their IT security function, to compile its report, Security Operations on the Back Foot. It revealed the inadequacy of current tooling to help them prioritize alerts generated from…