According to research from the FBI and FTC, cybercrimes against older adults cost more than $650 million in losses each year. Why? Unlike millennials and Generation Z, your grandparents weren’t born with a smartphone in their hands. On top of that, older adults tend to have more significant financial funds like retirement accounts, making them an ideal target for cybercriminals.   With Grandparent’s Day right around the corner, here’s a guide on how you can help keep your grandparents safe from the most common cybercrimes on…

According to research from the FBI and FTC, cybercrimes against older adults cost more than $650 million in losses each year. Why? Unlike millennials and Generation Z, your grandparents weren’t born with a smartphone in their hands. On top of that, older adults tend to have more significant financial funds like retirement accounts, making them an ideal target for cybercriminals.   With Grandparent’s Day right around the corner, here’s a guide on how you can help keep your grandparents safe from the most common cybercrimes on…

An Ontario resident, who admitted laundering tens of millions of dollars stolen by cyber-criminals in various wire and bank fraud schemes, is to spend the next 140 months in a United States federal prison. Dual Canadian and United States citizen Ghaleb Alaumary, formerly of Mississauga, was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering. He was further ordered to pay $30m in restitution to his victims and to serve three years of supervised…

A hacker who calls themself “The King” is demanding more than $40,000 to return control of a social media account to its rightful owners.  The access being held to ransom relates to an Instagram account belonging to 33-year-old Al Ferguson and his 43-year-old wife, Jen, who together founded a parenting forum geared toward fathers, Dadsnet.  For more than seven years, the entrepreneurial British couple have shared personal details of their lives with tens of thousands of their…

Some of these phrasings are standard day-to-day subject lines, but as one expert explained, “the attacker wants you to be moving too fast to stop and question if it’s legitimate.” Image: GettyImages/Maskot In recent months, hacking groups have brought critical aspects of U.S. infrastructure to a halt, and phishing is a popular tool in cybercriminal’s seemingly ever-expanding armamentarium of attack methods. On Wednesday, Expel released a report, highlighting the top keywords used in phishing attempt…

Hackers have broken into the computer network of the United Nations and made off with data, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Resecurity.  Bloomberg reports that the unidentified cyber-criminals behind the theft appear to have gained access simply by using login credentials stolen from a UN employee.  Entry was gained by logging in to the employee’s Umoja account. Umoja, which means “unity” in Kiswahili, is the enterprise resource planning system implemented by the UN in 2015. It…

As VMware forges partnership with our Public Cloud Provider Partners (also known as Hyperscale partners), our customers now have choice and flexibility to choose the appropriate Public Cloud Providers, in their preferred geographic region, to build, manage, automate, secure and operate their VMware based workloads. In this article, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to deploy VMware Clouds (aka Software Defined Data Centers or Private Clouds) in Multiple Cloud Provider Partner environments. For the purpose…

With all the changes recently quite a few people have been talking about Docker Desktop and trying to understand what it actually does on your machine. A few people have asked, “is it just a container UI?”  Great developer tools are magic for new developers and save experienced developers a ton of time. This is what we set out to do with Docker Desktop. Docker Desktop is designed to let you build, share and run containers…

In use for a decade as the de facto standard for communicating software bills of materials, SPDX formally becomes the internationally recognized ISO/IEC JTC 1 standard. Image: Kheng Guan Toh/Shutterstock The Linux Foundation announced Thursday the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) specification has been published as ISO/IEC 5962:2021 and recognized as the open standard for security, license compliance and other software supply chain artifacts.  Software bills of materials are used to communicate information in policies…

Chances are good you’re not using your browser with a strong enough eye on security. Jack Wallen offers up some advice to the average user on how to browse safer. Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock For the love of privacy and security, stop! You’re using the default settings in your web browser, thereby assuming the companies that created the software either know what’s best for you or don’t have ulterior motives for how they set security options…