In December 2020, the world discovered that the SolarWinds’ Orion Platform had been compromised by cybercriminals, potentially affecting thousands of businesses the world over. Security groups such as the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provided advice and guidance to security teams and IT companies on what actions they should take to minimize the impact on them and their customers. But the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) carries with it a worrying sub-text that requires further exploration…

Security vendor SonicWall has addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting both its on-premises and hosted Email Security products. SonicWall is warning its customers to update their hosted and on-premises email security products to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild. The three vulnerabilities addressed by the security vendor are: CVE-2021-20021: Email Security Pre-Authentication Administrative Account Creation: A vulnerability in the SonicWall Email Security version 10.0.9.x allows an attacker to create an administrative account by…

Hi Everyone, my now second favuorite yearly tech conference (after VMworld!) NVIDIA GTC has wrapped for 2021 and as it was the first one I attended, I’d like to share with you some of my personal highlights! For anyone not aware of GTC, it’s NVIDIA’s yearly conference, they describe it as the #1 AI conference for innovators, technologists, and creatives. The description fits it perfectly, it’s not just for techies, but creatives too. The conference…

A woman from California has been charged with waging a multi-year cyberstalking campaign against three teenage boys. Brentwood resident Ramajana Hidic Demirovic was charged by a federal grand jury with cyberstalking and conspiracy to commit cyberstalking. It is alleged that 46-year-old Demirovic harassed and intimidated victims who had entered into romantic relationships with an unnamed co-conspirator between February 2016 and March 2018. One of the relationships lasted just a few days. According to the indictment, Demirovic and…

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with marketing and cybersecurity games company Katzcy to launch the first US Cyber Games.  Consisting of the US Cyber Open and the US Cyber Combine Invitational, the program will run until October 2021. Included in the program is the selection of the first-ever US Cyber Team to represent the United States at the International Cyber Security Challenge (ICSC)….

A new report says people were scammed out of a record-breaking $304 million in the past year after being “catfished.” Image: iStock/Melpomenem Quarantining left many people bored and lonely and in search of love, but a lot were left with broken hearts: Romance scams have increased during the pandemic. A new report finds a record-breaking loss of $304 million in 20201 due to these scams compared to $202 million in 2019. There were 32,792 so-called…

Ireland has been warned by the United States that storing large amounts of data makes it an attractive target for cyber-criminals. The caution was uttered by John Demers, the assistant attorney general at the US National Security Division, while giving a keynote address at the IFPC2021 Cybersecurity and FinCrime conference.  Delegates representing more than 90 countries logged on to view the event as it was live streamed from Dublin on April 21. Demers shared a quote from…