RSS_Virtulization

By Sridhar Iyengar, MD, Zoho Europe Large tech corporations have started turning into surveillance companies, tracking the behaviour of businesses and users who have become heavily reliant on their services and platforms. Through advertising-first business models, Big Tech is increasingly putting user and business data at risk. The more tech companies know about their users, the more they can direct them to goods and services that they are most likely to buy and in turn…

Over the years, VMware has built vital products for our vibrant user base – from Developers, DevOps users, IT Admins & Cloud Admins to Security Admins & Database Admins. Our customers use VMware products, in conjunction with a wide array of open-source and third-party tools, to create and maintain modern, future-ready applications that form the building blocks of today’s global business world – on any cloud and any device. VMware took a further step towards…

Cloud-based user accounts were hit by almost 3.1 million external cyberattacks throughout the year, according to McAfee. Image: iStock/Melpomenem The shift to remote work in 2020 forced organizations and employees to become even more dependent on the cloud. But that shift also caught the attention of cybercriminals who were glad to exploit such a dependency. In a report published Tuesday, McAfee looks at cloud-based attacks and malware that took advantage of the new work environment….

COVID-19 themed cyber-attacks increased by 114% in Q4 2020 compared to Q3, according to data from the McAfee Threats Report: April 2021. This followed rises of 605% and 240% in Q2 and Q3 2020 respectively, demonstrating that threat actors have continued to leverage the pandemic to target organizations and individuals. The study, which looked at the evolving threat landscape in the final quarter of 2020, found there was a 10% overall rise in malware detections in…

Cyber-attacks against global financial institutions are increasingly characterized by attempts to counter incident response, with destructive efforts surging 118% over the past year, according to VMware. The tech giant’s Modern Bank Heists 4.0 report was compiled from interviews with over 120 CISOs and security leaders from some of the world’s biggest banks. It revealed that attackers are becoming increasingly adept at circumventing incident responders — in fact, counter incident response happened 63% of the time…