RSS_Virtulization

Cybersecurity has always been a significant challenge for businesses, mostly due to the increasing financial and reputational cost of data breaches. As a result, there has been a consistent rise in tactics and technologies used to combat these threats. These methods fulfill the need for better, smarter ways to augment enterprise-level security and minimize mobile security risks. Due to the increase in new kinds of cyber attacks, traditional security methods are no longer enough for…

Operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Researchers from BleepingComputer reported that operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), aka Buran, have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Unlike other ransomware, Zeppelin operators do not steal data from the victims and don’t run a leak site. Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the…

with the most innovative NFC hardware password manager which received the Global Infosec Awards 2021 By Jacques GASCUEL, CEO of Freemindtronic On a daily basis, every company, regardless of its size, is faced with providing occasional access to some of its digital services to outsiders. Who, during a business meeting at their premises, has never received a request from a service provider or a customer during a debriefing to gain access to the Internet? In…

By Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder & CEO, BlackCloak Major firms and corporations already know full well the risks and dangers inherent to their executives’ security. Executive Protection is an established business function often managed by the Chief Security Officer (CSO). Each year, they spend millions to provide security for their top-level executives. For example, the security bill for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tops $10 million. There’s no discounting that physical security is important. But without…

The realities of the past year fundamentally changed the way organizations invest in the cloud. With a renewed focus on resilience and efficiency, as well as accelerating digital transformation efforts and innovation, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud services and multi-cloud strategies to quickly meet new business and market demands. Understanding how to adapt to this faster-paced, cloud-centric world was a key theme of this year’s CloudLIVE conference, the industry-leading multi-cloud management conference dedicated to transforming and…

VMware has issued patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in vCenter Server. Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply patches as soon as possible. Background On May 25, VMware published an advisory (VMSA-2021-0010) regarding two vulnerabilities impacting vCenter Server, a centralized management software for VMware vSphere systems. In a rare move, VMware also published a blog post providing guidance on how users can mitigate these vulnerabilities. CVE Description CVSSv3…

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to issue its first ever set of cybersecurity regulations for pipelines, according to The Washington Post. The news comes in the wake of a recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline that knocked operational systems offline for five days, triggering panic buying that led to fuel shortages in the Southeast.  Last week, Colonial Pipeline paid a ransom of $4.4m to cyber-criminal gang DarkSide to regain control of its systems and data. According…

Triple-extortion is a new tool for ransomware attackers Length: 12:09 | May 25, 2021 Criminals send ransom demands not only to the attacked organization but to any customers, users or other third parties that would be hurt by the leaked data. Source link

Automated fraud attacks against e-commerce retailers have increased in volume, frequency and sophistication, according to new research published today. The Automated Fraud Benchmark Report: E-commerce Edition by PerimeterX is a new comprehensive annual report based on e-commerce cyber-attack activity over the past year. Findings draw upon anonymous data collected during live online interactions by millions of consumers and hundreds of millions of bots in 2020. Analysis of the data revealed traffic and threat patterns across hundreds of the world’s largest websites,…

The United States Coast Guard is to establish a Cyber Operational Assessments Branch this summer and create its first ever red team. The planned restructuring, first reported by Federal News Network, will support the cybersecurity work currently being undertaken by the Coast Guard’s blue team. Acting as a cyber adversary, the red team will emulate the behavior of threat actors and perform penetration tests to identify any weaknesses in the Coast Guard’s cyber-defenses.  Cyber blue team…