RSS_Virtulization

Join host Peter McKee and Python wizard Michael Kennedy for a warts-and-all demo of how to Dockerize a Python app using FastAPI, a popular Python framework. Kennedy is a developer and entrepreneur, and the founder and host of two successful Python podcasts — Talk Python To Me and Python Bytes. He’s also a Python Software Foundation Fellow. With some skillful back-seat driving by McKee, Kennedy shows how to build a bare-bones web API — in…

McAfee Soars with Superior Protection Results    Bottom Line: McAfee stopped the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Carbanak and FIN7 threats in their tracks within the first 15% of the major steps of the attack chain (on average), delivering on a critical security operations center (SOC) strategy: Stop the attack as early as possible.   In April 2021, MITRE Engenuity released the results of the Carbanak and FIN7 evaluations that leveraged Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP’s) from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. McAfee and 28 other vendors tested the capabilities of…

A survey from Blackberry finds that IT departments are worried about unpatched devices connecting to corporate networks as offices reopen. Security professionals are bracing for the next phase of the remote work reality: personal devices coming back into the office and bringing along all the associated security risks. A new survey from Blackberry found that many IT teams are planning to quarantine laptops for scans and patching before allowing them to reconnect to the network….

American multinational computer technology giant Dell addresses a 12-year-old driver flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21551, impacting millions of computers. Hundreds of millions of Dell computers worldwide are affected by a 12-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21551, that affects Dell DBUtil driver. The flaw affects version 2.3 of the Dell BIOS driver, it is one of a series of escalate privileges issues discovered by researchers from SentinelLabs. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to access driver functions and…

The first Thursday in May is World Password Day. Learn some tips for what your organization should do to foster good password management techniques. Image: Daniel Chetroni/Shutterstock As a system administrator, every 60 days (per our password expiration policy) I find myself in Password Hell. This entails having to change about two dozen expiring passwords to continue to access the systems I need to do my job. It’s particularly cumbersome since I work from home…

The Roaming Mantis smishing campaign has been impersonating a logistics company to steal SMS messages and contact lists from Asian Android users since 2018. In the second half of 2020, the campaign improved its effectiveness by adopting dynamic DNS services and spreading messages with phishing URLs that infected victims with the fake Chrome application MoqHao. Since January 2021, however, the McAfee Mobile Research team has established that Roaming Mantis has been targeting Japanese users with…

Introduction Email is one of the primary ways of communication in the modern world. We use email to receive notifications about our online shopping, financial transaction, credit card e-statements, one-time passwords to authenticate registration processes, application for jobs, auditions, school admissions and many other purposes. Since many people around the globe depend on electronic mail to communicate, phishing emails are an attack method favored by cyber criminals. In this type of attack, cyber criminals design…

Recently seized by the government, the site spoofed an actual company developing a coronavirus vaccine in an effort to steal personal data for malicious purposes. Image: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, cybercriminals have been devising phishing campaigns and phony websites designed to entrap people interested in the latest developments. One site, since taken down by the state of Maryland, was impersonating a vaccine maker with…