RSS_Virtulization

Just as business users have turned to cloud computing services and online collaboration software to do their jobs, so too have cybercriminals according to new research from Proofpoint. In recent months, the cybersecurity firm has observed a massive uptick in threat actors abusing Microsoft and Google’s infrastructure to host and send threats across Office 365, Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, G-Suite and Firebase storage. In 2020, over 59m malicious messages were sent from Microsoft Office 365 targeting…

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Web application vulnerabilities enabled attackers to breach organizations on average twice each last year, with bot-based raids the biggest challenge, according to Barracuda Networks. The security vendor polled 750 application security decision makers to compile its latest report: The state of application security in 2021. It revealed that nearly three-quarters (72%) of firms suffered at least one breach from a web app flaw, a third (32%) were hit twice and 14% were compromised three times….

On May 8th, I was at a gas station filling up my car before a trip I was taking when the news about a cyberattack against a large pipeline company broke. The attack led them to halt all operations. Ultimately, the incident stemmed from a ransomware infection in which a well-known threat actor took volumes of corporate data in just two hours and made their demands including the threat to block and encrypt the company’s…

Four years ago, when CloudHealth Secure State founders were researching the cloud market, it was hard to ignore the growing list of companies that ended up in the news headlines due to simple misconfiguration mistakes leading to massive data breaches. A closer look revealed that the security teams in many of these companies had tools, but were struggling with cloud visibility. They were getting the security alerts but didn’t know where to focus their resources…

Cryptocurrency, most notably Bitcoin, has become increasingly popular and valuable in recent years and with it have come a number of associated security risks, according to a pair of security experts speaking at the 2021 RSA Conference on May 19. Kenneth Geers, external communications analyst at Very Good Security, used the first part of the presentation to explain the history of money and why the US dollar has emerged as the world’s dominant reserve currency. “Good money…

Commentary: It’s progress that President Biden’s executive order recognizes the need to secure open source software. What it doesn’t do is address the best way to accomplish it. Image: iStockPhoto/maxkabakov It was just a matter of time before David Recordon’s impact on the U.S. federal government would be felt. Shortly after President Biden took office, he named Recordon the White House Director of Technology, coming a few years after Recordon ran open source initiatives at…