RSS_Virtulization

A record number of scams were recorded in the UK last year, according to figures published by Barclays. The banking giant recorded a particularly large growth in the amount of victims scammed in the second half of 2020, up by 66% compared with the first six months. This was fuelled by high value and complex scams, with fraudsters seeking to take advantage of the panic and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis found that…

Over 80% of British and American employees overshare on social media, potentially exposing themselves and their organization to online fraud, phishing and other cyber-threats, according to Tessian. The email security vendor polled 4000 UK and US professionals and interviewed 10 hackers specializing in social engineering to compile its latest research: How to Hack a Human. It revealed that half of respondents share names and photos of their children, 72% mention birthdays and even more (81%) update their…

Commentary: Open source has never been more popular, or had more need to be actively maintained. Find out how Tidelift catalogs can help. Image: iStock The problem isn’t open source. It’s what your company is doing about it. Or not, as the case may be. According to a new report from Revenera, open source usage is on the rise and, with it, a 200% increase in the average number of issues uncovered per security audit…

A California man has been charged with securities fraud after allegedly tricking cryptocurrency investors out of millions and using actor Steven Seagal to promote a fake company. John DeMarr, 55, of Santa Ana, was charged in a complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York. He is said to have conspired with others to defraud victims out of $11.4m by persuading them to invest in dud companies. The complaint alleged that between 2017 and 2018,…

CSO Online | Feb 2, 2021 Liberty Mutual’s Cybersecurity and Cloud Specialist Don Richard, IDC’s Program VP for Cybersecurity Products Frank Dickson, and IDG’s Editor-in-Chief of Enterprise Eric Knorr are all experts on cloud security. They discuss the nexus of how cloud security has shifted over the last five to seven years, what it looks like today, and how to prepare your organization for success in a cloud security future. Copyright © 2021 IDG Communications,…

The number of identity theft reports filed with US consumer protection authorities doubled over the past year thanks to the impact of the pandemic. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in an update yesterday that it received 1.4 million such reports last year, twice the number filed in 2019. The surge in cases coincided with the country’s slip into recession and soaring unemployment rate as COVID-19 took hold early last year, the FTC claimed. “After the…

Tripwire’s January 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Dnsmasq and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Dnsmasq related to the seven so-called “DNSpooq” vulnerabilities. Dnsmasq is an open-source DNS forwarding application, and systems using this software should patch as soon as possible. Up next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Edge, Excel, Office and Word. These patches resolve over…

Public 5G networks, private 5G networks, broader attack surfaces, and more complex environments add extra layers of vulnerability, expert says. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Curtis Simpson, CISO of Armis, an Internet of Things (IoT) security company, about security concerns with 5G. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: We talk a lot about 5G, of course, and all different facets of the technology. We talk a lot about security as…