Scammers target businesses with phishing emails all the time, pretending to be legitimate customers or vendors asking for payment. While any company can be vulnerable to this type of attack, small- to medium-size companies are particularly vulnerable because it is easier for a scammer to do a bit of research online and identify the right people to impersonate or send a phishing email to. A quick social media search or a visit to a corporate…

Co-written with Northwave’s Noël Keijzer. Executive Summary For a long time, ransomware gangs were mostly focused on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Yes, we observed the occasional dedicated Unix or Linux based ransomware, but cross-platform ransomware was not happening yet. However, cybercriminals never sleep and in recent months we noticed that several ransomware gangs were experimenting with writing their binaries in the cross-platform language Golang (Go). Our worst fears were confirmed when Babuk announced on an…

On July 16th we released BuildKit 0.9.0, Docker Buildx 0.6.0, Dockerfile 1.3.0 and Dockerfile 1.3.0-labs. These releases come with bug fixes, feature-parity improvements, refactoring and also new features. Dockerfile new features Installation There is no installation needed: BuildKit supports loading frontends dynamically from container images. Images for Dockerfile frontends are available at docker/dockerfile repository. To use the external frontend, the first line of your Dockerfile needs to be pointing to the specific image you want…

Save Time, Save Money with Google Cloud VMware Engine Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers an enterprise-grade VMware stack running natively in Google Cloud. The benefits of Google Cloud VMware Engine are: It offers one of the fastest paths to the cloud for VMware workloads without making changes to existing applications or operating models across a variety of use-cases. It helps customers achieve its objectives for rapid data center exit, application lift and shift, disaster recovery,…

The average cost of a data breach among companies surveyed for IBM Security reached $4.24 million per incident, the highest in 17 years. Getty Images/iStockphoto Data breaches have always proved costly for victimized organizations. But the coronavirus pandemic made a bad situation even worse. A report released Wednesday by IBM Security looks at how and why the average cost of dealing with a data breach has jumped to a new high. SEE: Security Awareness and Training…

The number of ads selling access to corporate networks has continued to increase from 2019 to 2020 and into 2021, says Positive Technologies. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Dark Web is home to a thriving marketplace for cybercriminals who want to buy or sell illegal and malicious goods and services. Advertisements and forum messages hawk everything from credit cards and bank accounts to medical records to account credentials to fake IDs to counterfeit products. But one…