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By Alan Kakareka, InfoSec consultant to businesses, Demyo inc. The year 2020 has so far represented, the biggest change in the way we live and interact with our environment. After OSM declared a global pandemic state because of the emergence of covid-19, it is accurate to say that within all the chaos, we had to adapt ourselves to a series of changes, not only to survive the virus but to cope with those in our…

A former pro baseball player and coach turned sports psychologist believes there is much cybersecurity pros can learn from sports mental conditioning. He wants to help them hit more home runs. Illustration: Getty Images/Lisa Hornung One of the hardest things to accomplish in sports is to hit a baseball. If a professional baseball player gets a hit 30% of the times they step up to the plate, they’re likely headed for the Baseball Hall of…

XCSSET, a Mac malware targeting Xcode developers, was now re-engineered and employed in a campaign aimed at Apple’s new M1 chips. Experts from Trend Micro have uncovered a Mac malware campaign targeting Xcode developers that employed a re-engineered version of the XCSSET malware to support Apple’s new M1 chips. The new variant also implements new features for data-stealing focused on cryptocurrency apps. XCSSET is a Mac malware that was discovered by Trend Micro in August 2020,…

Map, monitor and manage your attack surface to stay a step ahead By Stijn Vande Casteele, Founder and CEO, Sweepatic All organizations rely heavily on web presence to display their brand and/or products, reach their audience and streamline their processes. They deploy assets connected to the internet to achieve these goals. The benefits of the cloud, marketing websites and online services are obvious, but there are risks associated with any online presence. So, it becomes…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Android Malware, Dependency Confusion, Ransomware, Russia, SaintBot and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber…

Guest post by Docker Captain Gianluca Arbezzano Recently Corey Quinn from LastWeekInAWS wrote an article that made me think “Nobody Cares About the Operating System Anymore”. Please have a look at it! I like the idea that nobody cares about where their application runs. Developers only want them running. A bit of context about Tinkerbell I am one of the maintainers for the Tinkerbell project. A bare metal workflows engine that heavily relies on containers…

As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams. Cryptocurrency is hot. You can buy a car with it… Heck, you can buy a tweet with it. When anything is hot, it becomes a target for scammers. So, it’s time to defend yourself. Here are five ways to protect yourself against cryptocurrency scams. SEE: Cryptocurrency: An insider’s guide…

Cryptocurrency scams: Top 5 ways to protect yourself Length: 1:41 | Apr 20, 2021 As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams. Source link

Wendi Whitmore leads new Unit 42 organization that combines threat intelligence and security consulting offerings SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CORTEX SYMPHONY 2021 — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) today announced it is establishing a new cybersecurity consulting group to help enterprises respond to emerging threats as they navigate an increase in costly, crippling cyberattacks. The newly expanded Unit 42 combines formerly Crypsis security consultants, who respond to 1,300+ incidents a year, with…

In our most recent podcast, Eric Nielsen (@ericnpro) and I (@djasso7494) sat down with Lee Caswell, VP of VMware’s Cloud Platform Business Unit.  Lee’s business unit is responsible for VMware Cloud Foundation, a complete cloud stack (compute, storage, networking and management) that runs in the datacenter, on the edge, on thousands of managed service provider partner environments and now on the hyper-scaler cloud environments of AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle and Alibaba. State of Cloud: …