Threat Actor Claims to Have Hacked Domino’s

Threat Actor Claims to Have Hacked Domino’s

A threat actor is claiming to have stolen the personal data of over a million customers of Domino’s Pizza. In an advert placed on the dark web, the alleged hacker says that they are selling 13 terabytes of data that they claim was stolen from the Indian branch of the American multinational pizza restaurant.  The illicit advertisement was discovered by Alon Gal, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Israel-based cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. Gal posted news…

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Access Token Theft and Manipulation Attacks – A Door to Local Privilege Escalation | McAfee Blogs

Access Token Theft and Manipulation Attacks – A Door to Local Privilege Escalation | McAfee Blogs

Executive Summary Many malware attacks designed to inflict damage on a network are armed with lateral movement capabilities. Post initial infection, such malware would usually need to perform a higher privileged task or execute a privileged command on the compromised system to be able to further enumerate the infection targets and compromise more systems on the network. Consequently, at some point during its lateral movement activities, it would need to escalate its privileges using one…

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Digital Divorce: Who Gets the Airline Miles and Music Files? | McAfee Blogs

Digital Divorce: Who Gets the Airline Miles and Music Files? | McAfee Blogs

Something you’ll want to know about all those movies, mp3s, eBooks, air miles, and hotel points you’ve accrued over the years: they’re digital assets that can factor into a divorce settlement.  Understandably, several factors determine the distribution of assets in a divorce. However, when it comes to dividing digital assets, divorce settlements and proceedings are charting new territory. The rate of digital innovation and adoption in recent years has filled our phones, tablets, and computers with all manner of digital assets. What’s more, there are also the funds sitting in our payment apps or possibly further monies…

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Water After Oldsmar

Water After Oldsmar

How to Prevent the Next Attack on Our Water Infrastructure By Josh Cohen, Cyber Director, Economic and Trade Mission at the Embassy of Israel to the U.S. To get a preview of the next possible mass casualty terrorist attack, look no further than the Florida town of Oldsmar. In what was surely a Sum of All Fears  moment for Government officials, a cyber intruder of unknown origin attempted to poison Oldsmar’s water supply on February…

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How Zero Trust Networks Can Help Curb IT Burnout

How Zero Trust Networks Can Help Curb IT Burnout

By Stephen Helm, Product Marketing Manager, WatchGuard Technologies Last year was a challenging year for IT teams, and tech workers will continue to feel the mounting burden of maintaining business continuity moving forward. In the early part of 2020, IT teams were stressed to the brink as they scrambled to help their organizations adapt to the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital transformation timelines accelerated and businesses entered a mode of “survive to thrive.” Many…

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How the open source community helped firms investigate their network activity following SolarWinds

How the open source community helped firms investigate their network activity following SolarWinds

The open source community delivered vital help to companies affected by the SolarWinds attack. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The ramifications of the SolarWinds attack are still unfolding more than four months since the breaches were revealed to the public. One underappreciated facet of the wide-ranging scandal that has engulfed much of the U.S. government and hundreds of major companies involves the powerful role the open source community played in helping enterprises respond to the crisis, according…

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QR Code Malware Threat as Lockdown Ends

QR Code Malware Threat as Lockdown Ends

UK consumers are keen to embrace the use of QR codes as the country exits COVID-19 lockdown, but security experts have warned that low awareness levels could be exploited by cyber-criminals. Security vendor Ivanti recently polled over 500 British consumers to better understand their attitudes to QR codes. The technology is increasingly being used in hospitality settings like bars and restaurants to enable customers to access “touch-free” menus and other information in a more hygienic…

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VMware announces new Anywhere Workspace tool to help businesses make remote work easier

VMware announces new Anywhere Workspace tool to help businesses make remote work easier

The new platform is a combination of SASE, access control and cloud-native endpoint security that the company said is the only solution of its kind on the market. Image: VMware Hot off its divestment from parent company Dell, VMware is announcing a new remote work solution called VMware Anywhere Workspace, a zero-trust, cloud native platform that the company said is designed to eliminate friction between IT and remote employees, all while improving security and reducing…

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VMware Empowers Today’s Anywhere Workforce

VMware Empowers Today’s Anywhere Workforce

News Detail New Solution Enables a Highly Engaged Workforce; Delivers Broader, More Effective Security; and Reduces Costs and Operational Overhead PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The way we work has changed forever. And now that leading companies have seen the benefits of remote work, they want to do more than just support it. They want to become truly distributed businesses that can work from … Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 New Solution Enables a Highly Engaged…

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Campus Still Closed as Portsmouth University Reels from Ransomware

Campus Still Closed as Portsmouth University Reels from Ransomware

Key IT systems at the University of Portsmouth continue to remain offline this week after a supposed ransomware attack, delaying the start of the new term. A notice on the university’s homepage doesn’t explicitly name ransomware as the cause of the “cyber incident,” but the “ongoing technical disruption” it describes is a tell-tale sign of such attacks. However, The News has reported that it has seen an email from the university claiming it suffered a ransomware attack. …

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