Cybersecurity has always been a significant challenge for businesses, mostly due to the increasing financial and reputational cost of data breaches. As a result, there has been a consistent rise in tactics and technologies used to combat these threats. These methods fulfill the need for better, smarter ways to augment enterprise-level security and minimize mobile security risks. Due to the increase in new kinds of cyber attacks, traditional security methods are no longer enough for…

Operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Researchers from BleepingComputer reported that operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), aka Buran, have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Unlike other ransomware, Zeppelin operators do not steal data from the victims and don’t run a leak site. Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the…

with the most innovative NFC hardware password manager which received the Global Infosec Awards 2021 By Jacques GASCUEL, CEO of Freemindtronic On a daily basis, every company, regardless of its size, is faced with providing occasional access to some of its digital services to outsiders. Who, during a business meeting at their premises, has never received a request from a service provider or a customer during a debriefing to gain access to the Internet? In…

By Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder & CEO, BlackCloak Major firms and corporations already know full well the risks and dangers inherent to their executives’ security. Executive Protection is an established business function often managed by the Chief Security Officer (CSO). Each year, they spend millions to provide security for their top-level executives. For example, the security bill for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tops $10 million. There’s no discounting that physical security is important. But without…

The realities of the past year fundamentally changed the way organizations invest in the cloud. With a renewed focus on resilience and efficiency, as well as accelerating digital transformation efforts and innovation, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud services and multi-cloud strategies to quickly meet new business and market demands. Understanding how to adapt to this faster-paced, cloud-centric world was a key theme of this year’s CloudLIVE conference, the industry-leading multi-cloud management conference dedicated to transforming and…

VMware has issued patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in vCenter Server. Organizations are strongly encouraged to apply patches as soon as possible. Background On May 25, VMware published an advisory (VMSA-2021-0010) regarding two vulnerabilities impacting vCenter Server, a centralized management software for VMware vSphere systems. In a rare move, VMware also published a blog post providing guidance on how users can mitigate these vulnerabilities. CVE Description CVSSv3…

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to issue its first ever set of cybersecurity regulations for pipelines, according to The Washington Post. The news comes in the wake of a recent ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline that knocked operational systems offline for five days, triggering panic buying that led to fuel shortages in the Southeast.  Last week, Colonial Pipeline paid a ransom of $4.4m to cyber-criminal gang DarkSide to regain control of its systems and data. According…