RSS_Virtulization

Even though they both seek common ends, networking and security teams are often at odds with each other, slowing their companies down. Image: iStock/klmax According to a new study, Digital Transformation Needs a More Perfect Union, released Wednesday by secure access service edge provider Netskope, networking and security teams do not work well together, if at all. Relationships between the two groups are described by 38% of survey respondents as either “combative” (12%), “frosty” (11%),…

World Password Day isn’t the most popular day on the calendar, but it’s an important reminder that good password hygiene is essential to staying safe online. This World Password Day, we’d like to talk about improving your password hygiene, how you can help your friends and family improve theirs, and what the future of authentication holds. Hacking attempts have escalated throughout 2020 The SolarWinds hack in 2020 is one of the most devastating hacks in…

World Password Day isn’t the most popular day on the calendar, but it’s an important reminder that good password hygiene is essential to staying safe online. This World Password Day, we’d like to talk about improving your password hygiene, how you can help your friends and family improve theirs, and what the future of authentication holds. Hacking attempts have escalated throughout 2020 The SolarWinds hack in 2020 is one of the most devastating hacks in…

In addition to new blueprints, IBM Security also announced a partnership with the cloud and network security provider Zscaler. Image: iStock/sdecoret On Wednesday, IBM Security announced new ways the company will help customers adopt a zero trust approach to security. A zero trust approach, the announcement explained, is founded on the principles of providing the least privileged access: never trust, always verify and assume breach. IBM Security also announced an alliance partnership with cloud and…

Organizations’ digital transformation projects are being held back through lack of collaboration between security and networking teams, according to a new study by Netskope. The survey of IT professionals in the UK, France, and Germany, undertaken by Censuswide on behalf of the cloud security firm, revealed that two key components of IT teams—networking and security—often have a poor working relationship. Despite nearly half (45%) of security and networking teams operating within the same group and…

A coordinated cyber-attack has been carried out against Belgium’s parliament, scientific institutions, police services, and universities. Internet service provider Belnet, which serves the country’s government agencies, fell victim to what it described as a “large-scale attack” on Tuesday. At around 11:00am CEST, the company was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that overloaded its servers, preventing the availability of online services. Websites with .be domains were impacted. As a result of the hack,…

Over half of organizations have suffered a security incident due to misconfiguration or a known vulnerability in their cloud native applications, according to new research from Snyk. The open source security firm’s first ever State of Cloud Native Application Security Report revealed that adoption of cloud native techniques is soaring, with over 78% of production workloads now deployed as containers or serverless applications. However, this comes with its own risks: 60% of developers have had…

Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated global phishing campaign featuring three new malware families, which landed back in December last year. Mandiant observed two waves of the campaign, beginning December 2, targeting nearly 50 organizations around the world. It tracked the financially motivated threat group as UNC2529. “Based on the considerable infrastructure employed, tailored phishing lures and the professionally coded sophistication of the malware, this threat actor appears experienced and well resourced,” the security vendor…

A quarter (22%) of shoppers use guest checkouts because they’re concerned about handing more personal data over to e-commerce providers, according to a new study. E-commerce search specialist Empathy.co commissioned Censuswide to poll a representative sample of 4000 British consumers to better understand their online preferences. It revealed widespread mistrust of online stores and a desire to gain more control over personal data. Only 13% said they’re not concerned about how their data is used…

Human nature has shown that people re-use passwords, at least for non-work accounts that aren’t requiring quarterly changes. How can it affect your current security that you’ve reused an old password or passphrase from 2012? Surprisingly, quite a lot. Hashed passwords and the plain text equivalent from a breached site can be paired with your then-username. Malicious hackers have compiled lists of these pairs in a dictionary. Many sites use your email address as your…