By Eileen Haggerty, Sr. Director, Enterprise Business Operations, NETSCOUT The pandemic accelerated digital transformation and increased organizations’ reliance on cloud services, VPNs, and other solutions designed to support remote work. These changes have redefined, if not destroyed, the idea of the traditional security perimeter. At the same time, the pandemic led to a massive increase in DDoS attacks and ransomware attacks. Globally, 2020 saw more than 10 million DDoS attacks, the most ever, with a…

By Yehudah Sunshine, Head of PR, odix With the workforce going remote and IP existing almost exclusively in the digital domain enterprises, local and federal agencies, and SMBs alike are all striving to find the right digital blend to meet their industry transformation needs. Supercharged by the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses in all sectors have been increasingly demanded to ‘digital transform’ and somehow mitigate all the evolving risks and regulatory expectations they face in the cyber…

Graphcore’s Poplar® SDK is available for developers to access through Docker Hub, with Graphcore joining Docker’s Verified Publisher Program. Together with Docker, we’re distributing our software stack as container images, enabling developers to easily build, manage and deploy ML applications on Graphcore IPU systems. We continue to enhance the developer experience to make our hardware and software even easier to use. Just over a year ago we introduced a selection of pre-built Docker containers for users. Now,…

Develop the necessary skills and use the tools to be an ethical hacker through this 120-hour comprehensive course bundle. Image: BeeBright/Shutterstock According to the 2021 Cybersecurity Impact Report from IronNet, the SolarWinds attack had organizations making an extra effort in improving their network defenses, but those that had taken serious cybersecurity hits had experienced attacks severe enough to warrant board meetings. This is largely because the financial impacts of the attacks were astronomical, averaging about 11%…

A Russian cyber-criminal has been sent to prison in the United States for defrauding American companies out of millions of dollars. Aleksandr Zhukov ran a sophisticated digital advertising scam through purported advertising network Media Methane. In June, he was convicted of wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering. Zhukov, the self-styled “king of fraud,” worked with accomplices to trick victim companies into believing that they had purchased genuine digital advertising space. In reality,…

Positive Technologies expert describes vulnerability linked to apps used to pay for public transit tickets. Image: iStockphoto/ipopba The balance between hands-free payments and the security standards required to protect those transactions has tipped too far in the wrong direction, according to a security expert.  At a session at Black Hat Europe 2021 this week, Timur Yunusov,  a senior security expert at Positive Technologies, explained flaws in contactless payment apps that could lead to fraud using…