A VPN service popular with cyber-criminals has been dismantled by a coordinated international law enforcement operation. DoubleVPN used servers located in various jurisdictions around the world to provide anonymity for ransomware actors, fraudsters and others, according to Europol. It was heavily advertised on English and Russian language cybercrime forums. Costing as little as $25, the service offered single, double, triple and even quadruple VPN connections to its clients. The more VPN servers traffic is passed…

Cybersecurity professionals have come together on Twitter to show their support for an infosec worker who was trolled after posting a bikini pic. Coleen Shane, founder and chief engineer for InfoSec Bad Girls and Hacker Spring Camp, was astonished when an anonymous follower reacted angrily to the shot. The user, who follows over 200 infosec-related accounts, argued that there was “no warning” for the image, intimating that “otherwise respectable people” should not be doing such….

Security researchers in China have accidentally disclosed a critical Windows zero-day bug nicknamed “PrintNightmare.” The proof-of-concept discovered by Shenzhen-based Sangfor Technologies was released this week after confusion over another Print Spooler vulnerability status. In its June Patch Tuesday, Microsoft originally patched a high severity elevation of privilege vulnerability, CVE-2021-1675. However, last Monday it reclassified the bug as critical, after judging that it could enable remote code execution (RCE) without adding any more information. Unfortunately, the researchers at Sangfor…

Container orchestration platform Kubernetes announced in December 2020 that its third and final release, Kubernetes v1.20, would deprecate dockershim and subsequently Docker as a container runtime. This deprecation has brought multiple changes that admins must be aware of and accordingly respond to.  To best understand these changes and how dockershim’s deprecation affects admins and their work, let’s quickly dive into what dockershim is, its relevance to container security, and the reasons behind Kubernetes’ decision to…