A Texas resident has been convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a school district in Idaho through a business email compromise (BEC) scam. Teton School District 401, which serves 1,800 students in seven schools in Teton County, fell victim to the cybercrime three years ago.  In 2018, the district’s business manager, Carl Church, unknowingly made an electronic payment to a fraudulent bank account accessed through his district email account.  Church transferred $784,833.71 in…

As 2021 comes to an end, it’s time to look back on our top 10 most-read blogs of the year. They cover a range of topics, from updates to our subscription pricing to product announcements to security threats. Here’s a quick summary, starting with the most popular, then ordered by topic. Updates and extensions to Docker product subscriptions It should come as no surprise that changes to our product subscriptions — our biggest news of…

Are you looking to deploy an in-house password manager server? Jack Wallen shows you how with Bitwarden and Docker. Image: BeeBright/Shutterstock Bitwarden is one of my favorite password managers. But if you’re seriously concerned about security and would rather not save your password database on a third-party server, you might want to consider deploying your own Bitwarden server. That might sound like a serious challenge but, thanks to Docker, it’s actually quite simple. I’m going…

More than a million scam texts will be sent in the UK this week, and more than half will use parcel deliveries to try to trick consumers. Organisations monitoring “smishing” fraud are warning people to be extra vigilant this Christmas. One cyber-security firm, Proofpoint, is seeing ten times more scam messages this year than last. Vice president of operations Jacinta Tobin said a mix of Covid and Christmas makes the texts more tempting. “We are…

Consumers have been warned to stay vigilant of delivery scam texts while online shopping for Christmas and during the Boxing Day sales. UK Finance cited new data from cybersecurity firm Proofpoint showing that delivery ‘smishing’ scams are surging amid the busiest shopping period of the year. This showed that over half (55.94%) of all reported smishing text messages impersonated parcel and package delivery companies so far in Q4 2021. This compares to just 16.37% of smishing attempts…

Protecting our critical infrastructure against the threat of ransomware remains a top priority for both the private sector and the federal government. In fact, a recent survey from Tripwire found that security professionals in both sectors still identify ransomware as a top security concern. More than half (53%) of respondents in that study said they were most concerned about ransomware, for instance. This was followed by vulnerability exploits, phishing, and social engineering at 35%, 34%,…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has reportedly been shunned by China’s top tech regulator for failing to report the infamous Log4j vulnerability quickly enough. Local media claimed that the firm’s Alibaba Cloud business, which has a large team of security researchers, failed to report the issue to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). According to news site Protocol, a Chinese regulation dubbed Provisions on Security Loopholes of Network Products was in force as of September. It mandates vulnerabilities…

Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, recently published the 2021 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report. The report, which is Europol’s flagship strategic product that provides a law enforcement focused assessment of evolving threats and key developments in the area of cybercrime, highlights the expansion of the cyber threat landscape due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerated digitization. For this year’s assessment, the project team surveyed all European Union Member States (EU MS),…

Enterprise architecture provides the foundation for successful business-IT initiatives. When properly designed and implemented, enterprise architecture will help business leaders achieve their goals, enabling the organization to become more responsive, efficient, and competitive. Unfortunately, just a few common mistakes can keep an enterprise architecture from meeting its designers’ intended goals and objectives. In fact, a flawed enterprise architecture can, over time, send an enterprise in an entirely wrong direction. When developing or updating your enterprise…