RSS_Virtulization

Greater nation state collaboration is required to tackle the growing threat of cybercrime, according to panellists speaking during a session at the LORCA Live online event. Troels Oerting, former head of World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Centre for Cybersecurity, firstly outlined the relevance of cybersecurity to the WEF’s ‘Great Reset’ agenda, which advocates a global approach to tackling the world’s problems, such as inequalities. He noted it is estimated that 80% of the unwanted activity on…

New research has found that the age of a ransomware victim may affect their willingness to pay for the recovery of their data.  A study by cybersecurity company Kaspersky found that while 65% of victims aged between 35 and 44 paid their attackers for a decryption key, only 11% of victims aged 55 and over, and 52% of victims aged 16 to 24, gave in to ransom demands.  The Kaspersky Consumer IT Security Risks Survey (Consumer ITSR) interviewed a…

If you are a developer, there is a high chance that you’ve utilized the LAMP stack in the past 24 hours. The LAMP stack, consisting of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python, is a web service tool used to quickly build websites and applications through a reliable coding framework. For developers who work with VMware environments, the easiest way to deploy the LAMP stack is through the Bitnami-packaged appliance that’s available on the VMware Marketplace –…

While you need endpoint protection to secure your remote workers, you must still guard all your network services at the office and in the cloud, says WatchGuard Technologies. Image: iStock/sdecoret Last year’s abrupt transition to working from home shifted certain security objectives in order to protect all the new remote endpoints. And certainly, workers and devices that operate outside your network perimeter can be especially vulnerable to cyberthreats. But organizations should remember that they still…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced that it has been named a finalist for two 2021 SC Awards — Best Security Company and Best SCADA Security Solution for Tenable.ot.  Over 30,000 organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 30 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies rely on Tenable’s risk-based vulnerability management solutions. The company has a long history of product innovations, including the recent launch…