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A survey by a global humanitarian NGO has found that two-thirds of Ireland’s young women and girls have been harassed while using the internet.  The research, conducted by Plan International, found 67% of young female users had been subjected to virtual violence while online. In the majority of cases, the abuse was perpetrated via the social media platforms Snapchat and Instagram. Among the harassing behaviors experienced by victims was cyberstalking, threats of sexual or physical violence, being…

Next week, on Thursday March 11th, 2021 (8am PST/5pm CET) we’ll be hosting our next quarterly Docker Community All-Hands. This free virtual event, open to everyone, is a unique opportunity for Docker staff and the broader Docker community to come together for company and product updates, live demos, community presentations and a live Q&A.  As luck would have it, this All-Hands will coincide almost to the day with Docker’s 8th birthday (yay!). To mark the…

A cyber-attack on an optometrist located in Sierra Vista, Arizona, has affected up to 100,000 patients.  Cyber-criminals successfully hit Cochise Eye and Laser with ransomware in January, encrypting the office’s patient scheduling and billing software.  Patient data stored in the billing software included names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases Social Security numbers. While the attack prevented staff from accessing certain data, a spokesperson for the office said that no signs had been…

  With more than 20 years in the technology industry, Natasja Bolton’s experience has largely been a positive one where she has felt supported by her male peers, teachers, and managers along the way. But where the technology world does itself a disservice to women, she says, is by not advertising the scale of the industry and the variety of jobs that are out there. In this edition of our podcast, Natasja explains why the…

Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates for all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that fix four zero-day flaws. Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. The IT giant reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM, chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to…

There has been significant progress in the area of gender diversity in the technology industry, but much more work is required, according to a panel speaking on a webinar during Women’s History Month. The discussion came on the back of Kaspersky’s recent Women in tech report, in partnership with Ada’s List, a global community for women in tech. This study highlighted that a lot of progress is being made in improving representation of women in the…

Cybercriminals have changed tactics since COVID-19, with surgically precise social engineering attacks targeting business apps replacing batch-and-blast phishing. Image: Vladimir Obradovic, Getty Images/iStockphoto A survey of IT professionals and leaders from email security firm GreatHorn finds big changes afoot in the world of email-targeting cyberattacks: The daily quantity of attacks has decreased, but those that remain are more precise and easier to miss. To make matters worse, the majority of phishing attacks now come in…

Business Email Compromise (BEC) scammers, who have made rich returns in recent years tricking organisations into transferring funds into their accounts, have found a new tactic which attempts to swindle Wall Street firms out of significantly larger amounts of money. According to a newly published-report by Agari, scammers are seeking to defraud Wall Street businesses and their customers out of US $809,000 on average per incident. This emerging form of BEC attack is a “capital…

Account takeovers and online banking fraud are two types of attacks on the rise against financial institutions and their customers, says Feedzai. Image: William_Potter, Getty Images/iStockphoto Amid the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 saw a quick and abrupt transition to digital banking and commerce, a boon for banks and customers alike. But that shift also triggered a host of schemes and scams from cybercriminals eager to take advantage of the new environment. A financial crime report released…

A huge rise in financial crime was recorded last year, driven by the rapid shift to digital banking and commerce following COVID-19 lockdowns. This is according to Feedzai’s Financial Crime Report Q1 – 2021, which compared the volume of financial fraud and crime in Q4 and Q1 2020, with the latter quarter mainly unaffected by the pandemic. The study found there was a 650% surge in account takeover (ATO) in Q4 compared to Q1, with…