More than half of consumers surveyed by Ping Identity said they ditched an online service when logging in proved too frustrating. Image: iStock/Leestat People have certain expectations when they sign into a website. They want the login and registration process to be smooth and convenient. They want to be able to access their information quickly and without any hiccups. And increasingly they want to know if and how their private data is being collected and…

New integrations follow Tenable being named a Splunk Global Strategic Partner Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced an expansion of its global strategic partnership with Splunk Inc., provider of the Data-to-Everything(™) Platform, to secure Active Directory and converged operational technology (OT) environments. Newly released and updated integrations for Tenable.ad™ and Tenable.ot™ enable joint customers to identify and address security weaknesses in their most targeted and high-value systems. “If you look at the biggest…

News Detail Authorization will enable government agencies to implement broad cloud initiatives, adopt remote workforce strategies, and drive digital transformations in a highly secure hybrid environment PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware (NYSE: VMW), today announced VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) has achieved FedRAMP Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) at the High Impact Level. FedRAMP is a … Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:00:00 Authorization will enable government agencies to implement broad cloud initiatives, adopt remote…

Corporate end-users should be on high alert for phishing attacks in the final quarter of the year as this is when most malicious emails are likely to land, according to new research from Tessian. The email security vendor analyzed four billion messages sent between July 2020 and July 2021 to compile its Spear Phishing Threat Landscape 2021 report. It found 45% more malicious emails sent in October, November and December 2020 than in the previous quarter. That’s perhaps…

European police claim to have dismantled an organized crime group that made €10m from online fraud, drug trafficking and property crimes last year. The operation involved the Spanish and Italian national police, with Europol and Eurojust coordinating. The group itself, which was linked to the Italian mafia, is suspected of defrauding hundreds of victims via phishing attacks, business email compromise (BEC), SIM swapping and other types of online fraud. It is said to have laundered…

An Iowan agricultural group hit by ransomware over the weekend appears to have claimed that the impact of the attack on the US public could be worse than the Colonial Pipeline incident. The attack has been traced to BlackMatter, a group that some believe has links to the DarkMatter outfit responsible for the days-long oil supply outage in May, which sent prices soaring on the East Coast. According to reports, it targeted New Cooperative, a major US grain producer, with…

In all the buzz about cloud computing infrastructure and the benefit of moving workloads to the cloud, there is a critical use case to the virtualization pros managing data center and private cloud infrastructure – modernizing to a fully virtualized environment that delivers resource efficiency, app modernization, and a seamless connection to the public cloud and edge. That modernization is delivered by Hyperconverged Infrastructure, or HCI. It’s the full virtualization of data center infrastructure –…