Recognizing the different DevOps personas and understanding their unique perspectives will help to improve collaboration and drive alignment across teams and initiatives.    Despite good intentions, many traditional IT organizations struggle to show successful outcomes from DevOps initiatives quickly enough to generate and maintain momentum. Early attempts can be hampered by a steep operational learning curve, resistance to change (“we can’t because…”), and poorly aligned expectations. To avoid these pitfalls and accelerate these DevOps initiatives,…

By Dmitry Dontov, CEO and Chief Architect of Spin Technology In the wake of the global pandemic, organizations of all types and sizes have pivoted to cloud resources to accommodate the rise of distributed, remote work. Businesses have never been more reliant on the cloud than they are today. The proof is in the remarkable growth we’re seeing in cloud spending and cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions. Gartner forecasts public cloud services spending to grow 18.4%…

Experts warn of ongoing attacks targeting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices to abuse them in cryptocurrency mining. Researchers at 360Netlab are warning of a cryptocurrency malware campaign targeting unpatched network-attached storage (NAS) devices. via the unauthorized remote command execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-2506 & CVE-2020-2507) Threat actors are exploiting two unauthorized remote command execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-2506 & CVE-2020-2507, in the Helpdesk app that have been fixed by the vendor in October 2020. The flaws affect QNAP NAS firmware versions…

Criminals have been targeting organizations that run Exchange hoping to breach ones that haven’t patched the latest bugs, says ESET. Microsoft Four critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange have paved the way for attackers to take over accessible Exchange servers even without knowing the credentials. On March 2, Microsoft released a series of updates to patch the flaws. But cybercriminals have been rushing to hack affected organizations that haven’t yet applied the patches. Plus, many…

A threat actor has hacked into the social media account of South Korea’s biggest boy band, BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys. Since their debut in 2013, BTS have taken the music world by storm, winning major accolades at the American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and South Korea’s Melon Music Awards, and becoming the first K-pop band to top the US album charts. The seven-member band joined TikTok in…

Apiiro creates user profiles and analyzes a company’s code base to spot high-risk changes. A cybersecurity expert wants to make it easier for software developers and security architects to work together. CEO and co-founder Idan Plotnik used what he learned about user and entity behavior analysis by building his previous company to build his latest one: Apiiro. Plotnik sold his previous cybersecurity company Aorato to Microsoft for $200 million a few years ago. The platform…

A convicted fraudster from Santa Monica, California, who conned the women he dated into investing in his fake businesses has been handed a custodial sentence.  Antonio Mariot Wilson, also known as Dr. Tony Mariot and Brice Carrington, impersonated a Bible scholar and a Navy SEAL in the execution of his romance scams. Wilson lured his targets using online dating sites, including the networking dating app Bumble Bizz. Between May 2015 and October 2017, the 57-year-old tricked four…

Startup uses NLP and AI to make software security reviews less painful Length: 6:40 | Mar 10, 2021 Apiiro creates user profiles and analyzes a company’s code base to spot high-risk changes and replace manual risk assessments with on-the-fly analysis. Source link

More than half of Americans believe that their companies could have done more to increase cybersecurity during the global health pandemic, according to a new survey. In February, tech company Lynx Software asked 1,000 Americans employed during the pandemic about their employer’s approach to cybersecurity since the outbreak of COVID-19. Of those surveyed, 51% said that their companies have not been taking cybersecurity seriously. Nearly half (48%) said that they were not aware of their company’s implementing any…