RSS_Virtulization

The most common type of BEC campaign involves a spoofed email account or website, according to GreatHorn. Image: iStock/OrnRin Email is one of the most popular tools exploited by cybercriminals to launch attacks against organizations. It’s quick and simple and it relies on social engineering to trick the recipient into falling for whatever scam is in play. One particular tactic favored by criminals is the Business Email Compromise (BEC) in which the scammer spoofs a…

Back in September 2020, I configured a SonicWall network security appliance to act as a VPN gateway between physical devices in my home lab and cloud resources on my Azure account. As I usually do with new devices on my network, I did some cursory security analysis of the product and it didn’t take long before I had identified what looked like a buffer overflow in response to an unauthenticated HTTP request. I quickly reported…

The new offerings are aimed at integrating security data across multiple on-prem and cloud environments and vendors to improve cybersecurity decision-making, the company says. Image: Mackenzie Burke Data analytics and cybersecurity platform provider Splunk announced Tuesday Splunk Security Cloud, a cloud-based security operations platform that integrates analytics, automated security operations and threat intelligence.  “At Splunk, we believe security is a data problem and data drives better decisions, providing the foundation for security analytics,” Sendur Sellakumar,…

Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 cyberespionage group was behind the attack that breached the government’s IT network in 2018. The attribution of the attack to the APT31 grouo is based on the results of the investigation conducted by the Norwegian intelligence. The threat actors gained administrative rights then used them…

You came, you participated, you learned. You helped us pull off another DockerCon — and, my fellow developers, it was good. How good? About 80,000 folks registered for the May 27 virtual event — on a par with last year. We threw a lot at you, from demos and product announcements to company updates and more — all of it focused on modern application delivery in a cloud-native world. But some clear favorites emerged. Here’s…

There’s little rest for your hard-working smartphone. If you’re like many professionals today, you use it for work, play, and a mix of personal business in between. Now, what if something went wrong with that phone, like loss or theft? Worse yet, what if your smartphone got hacked? Let’s try and keep that from happening to you.  Globally, plenty of people pull double duty with their smartphones. In Spain, one survey found that 55% of people use the same phone for a mix of personal and and work activity. The same survey…

There’s little rest for your hard-working smartphone. If you’re like many professionals today, you use it for work, play, and a mix of personal business in between. Now, what if something went wrong with that phone, like loss or theft? Worse yet, what if your smartphone got hacked? Let’s try and keep that from happening to you.  Globally, plenty of people pull double duty with their smartphones. In Spain, one survey found that 55% of people use the same phone for a mix of personal and and work activity. The same survey…

A new online tool has been launched to help young people remove nude images of themselves that have been shared online. The Report Remove tool, developed by Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), enables any person under the age of 18 to report any nude image or video of them that has appeared on the internet. The IWF will assess the content, which will work to remove it if it is found to have…

One in five apps on Google Play designed for children appear to be breaking federal law, according to new research from Comparitech. The consumer rights and comparison site analyzed the top 300 free and top 200 paid apps on the marketplace under the children and family categories and reviewed each listed privacy policy. It found that one in five contravened the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), legislation which places a strict set of FTC-enforced…

US organizations that choose to pay a ransom to their online extorters may be eligible to claim the money back from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it has emerged. A report from The Associated Press over the weekend cited tax lawyers and accountants who claimed the little-known clause could be a “silver lining” for ransomware victims. However, the deduction could also be seen as a further corporate incentive to pay up, encouraging more affiliate groups…