RSS_Virtulization

Four months after his inauguration, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has named two former National Security Agency (NSA) officials to top cybersecurity roles in his administration. On Monday, the White House announced the nomination of former NSA deputy director John C. “Chris” Inglis as the government’s first national cyber director. Ex-deputy director of the NSA’s counterterrorism center, Jen Easterly, was named to head up the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…

By Arif Mamedov, Ph.D., President of Regula Forensics, Inc. Onboarding is like a gateway, where you as a guard can either let the right person in or assure that a fraudster shall not pass through. That process contains a challenge: if it is not streamlined enough, a huge abandonment rate can occur. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began to impact government policy, everything has become digital and this has brought another challenge for myriads of…

Recently, the McAfee Mobile Research Team uncovered several new variants of the Android malware family BRATA being distributed in Google Play, ironically posing as app security scanners. These malicious apps urge users to update Chrome, WhatsApp, or a PDF reader, yet instead of updating the app in question, they take full control of the device by abusing accessibility services. Recent versions of BRATA were also seen serving phishing webpages targeting users of financial entities, not…

  With a background in Russian language and literature, Noel Haskins-Hafer might have seemed like an unlikely candidate for a career in technology. But through her love for learning, she started out in the industry by reading IBM manuals and assembler programming books, often while on vacation. Over time, she explored and eliminated roles that she hated until she discovered where she fit, and what she loved, in the realm of audit and compliance. In…

An Iranian nuclear facility south of Tehran has been hit by cyber-attackers, according to the country’s chief nuclear official.  Ali Akbar Salehi said that the attack on the Natanz complex took place the day after Iran unveiled new equipment to enrich uranium. In a ceremony broadcast live on television on April 10, the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, inaugurated new centrifuges at the Natanz site.  According to the Federation of American Scientists, centrifuges can raise serious nuclear weapons…

It has become virtually impossible to distinguish nowadays between a real and a fake email from a well-known company, especially one you’re likely a customer/member of, as the design, logo, and name seem so real. But knowing which emails are real and which are phishing emails is crucial and can save you money and problems in the future. Let’s jump right in and examine some examples of fake emails: In this example, overall, it looks…

A 93% increase in malicious COVID-related domains created using the word ‘Travel’ has been detected in the first three months of 2021 by threat intelligence firm Webroot. Analysis from its real-time anti-phishing protection system demonstrated that cyber-criminals have increasingly sought to leverage the topic of international travel amid the rapid rollout of COVID-19 vaccines this year. Debates surrounding the resumption of foreign travel and the use of vaccine passports have been a major source of news…

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Even if you haven’t seen the 1931 film Frankenstein, you are more than likely familiar with the story of the “monster” created by Victor Frankenstein. You may associate this cry from its titular character with the image of what Victor conjured finally opening its eyes and slowly lurching off the table. While amusing and entertaining, this ongoing trope has a flaw that has tainted most of our memories. The fact is,…

DuckDuckGo has launched a new browser extension for Chrome that will prevent FLoC, a new tracking technique used by Google to support web advertising without user tracking. FloC is meant to be a new, privacy-preserving alternative to third-party tracking cookies. Image: uzenzen, Getty Images/iStockphoto Privacy browser DuckDuckGo has launched a new extension for Chrome that’s designed to block Google’s new algorithm for tracking users’ browsing activity for ad selection. DuckDuckGo’s new browser extension blocks FLoC…