The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced new cybersecurity requirements for critical pipeline owners and operators. The Colonial pipeline incident continues to have a serious impact on the critical infrastructure sector. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced new cybersecurity requirements for owners and operators of critical pipelines. The new security directive requires critical pipeline owners and operators to report any confirmed and potential cybersecurity incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “The cybersecurity…

Because Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) is a fully customer-managed implementation of the VMware Cloud Foundation stack, hosted on Oracle’s global Cloud Infrastructure platform, it’s arguably the Hyperscaler VMware offering that is most like your existing on-premises deployment. However, unless your on-prem deployment is on an “OCI Dedicated Region Cloud @ Customer” it’s unlikely that your network underlay is quite the same as the one underpinning OCVS. In this post, we’ll see one of the…

We all use container-based images to build applications, but can you trust them? Docker’s expansion of its trusted content offering, the Docker Verified Publisher Program, will make it easier. Image: Docker Hands up, how many of you build your own containerized-based applications? Be honest now! The truth is very few people do. It’s just so much easier to grab the pre-made bits and pieces that lie behind the special sauce on top of your application….

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a flash warning Thursday over the exploitation of Fortinet vulnerabilities by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. According to the FBI, an APT actor group has “almost certainly” been exploiting a FortiGate appliance since at least May 2021 to access a web server hosting the domain for a US municipal government. The APT actors may have established new user accounts on domain controllers, servers, workstations, and the active directories to…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s incoming chief executive officer will present at the Stifel 2021 Virtual Cross Sector Insight Conference on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 1:40 p.m. PT/ 4:40 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor Relations page at … Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW),…

A scammer who defrauded elderly American computer users by tricking them into believing that their computers had suffered a cyber-attack will be spending the next three years in federal prison. Himanshu Asri, of Delhi, India, took part in a five-year telemarketing scheme that conned around 2,000 computer users, most of whom were seniors.  The 34-year-old fraudster operated the call center in India that played an integral part in the Tech Fraud deception. Under the scheme,…

Operating in Russia, the Nobelium cybercrime group has targeted 3,000 email accounts across more than 150 organizations, says Microsoft. NicoElNino, Getty Images/iStockphoto The group behind the infamous SolarWinds hacks is on another cyberattack spree, this time targeting not just government agencies but others as well. In a report published Thursday, Microsoft revealed that the threat actor Nobelium launched a series of attacks this past week against government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations. More…