A man has been found guilty of cyber-stalking his former girlfriend in an attempt to prevent her husband from being elected to the Nebraska Legislature.  Forty-eight-year-old Nebraskan Dennis Sryniawski obtained a sexually explicit photograph of La Vista resident Dianne Parris with her consent when the pair were in a romantic relationship more than two decades ago. However, Parris told the World-Herald that she never gave her former boyfriend consent to distribute the image. When Dianne’s husband, Jeff Parris, was…

This post is the sixth in a series on Google Cloud VMware Engine and Google Cloud Platform. This post covers common networking scenarios, like creating network segments,  assigning a public IP to a VM, and load balancing. Other posts in this series: Your Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud initially comes with networking pre-configured, and you don’t need to worry about configuring and trunking VLANs. Instead, any new networking configuration will be done in NSX-T….

Researchers at Positive Technologies have published a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2020-3580. There are reports of researchers pursuing bug bounties using this exploit. Background On October 21, 2021, Cisco released a security advisory and patches to address multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software web services. In April, Cisco updated the advisory to account for an incomplete fix of CVE-2020-3581. On June 24, Positive Technologies tweeted…

Personal information belonging to job seekers residing in the Mountain State may have been exposed during a security incident at WorkForce West Virginia. The breach was confirmed yesterday by West Virginia governor Jim Justice, who addressed the incident during a press conference held earlier today.  WorkForce has begun sending notification letters to individuals whose personal data was compromised. The letters state that WorkForce learned on April 13 that an unauthorized individual had accessed a job-seekers database. The unknown cyber-criminal may…

Jack Wallen shows you just how easy it is to join an existing AlmaLinux server to an Active Directory domain via a web-based GUI. Image: Jack Wallen If you’ve begun deploying AlmaLinux into your data center or your cloud-hosted services, you might have a reason to join those servers to your existing Active Directory domain. At first blush, you might think that process is a drawn-out exercise in command-line marathons. It’s not. Believe it or…

  From 24 June to 26 July 2021, PCI SSC stakeholders are invited to review and provide feedback on the draft PCI PIN Transaction Security (PTS) Hardware Security Module (HSM) Modular Security Requirements during a 30 day request for comments (RFC) period. The RFC will be available to primary contacts through the PCI SSC portal, including instructions on how to access the document and submit feedback. Eligible stakeholders will also receive instructions via email. As a…

A linguist employed by the US Department of Defense has been sent to prison for more than two decades for leaking the identities of American spies to a lover with ties to a foreign terrorist organization. Mariam Taha Thompson was charged in March 2020 with sharing highly sensitive classified national defense information with a Lebanese national connected to Hizballah.  A year later, the 62-year-old former resident of Rochester, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to placing American spies and US military personnel…

Google Chrome users will have to wait until at least 2023 before third party cookies are blocked as part of the browser’s Privacy Sandbox initiative. Google had first disclosed its plans to block third party cookies, which advertisers and marketers use to track users, in August 2019. In January 2020, Google provided more details on the Privacy Sandbox effort with the company stating that it intended to have the cookie blocking technology in place within…

Last month, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Security Technical Advisory Group published a detailed document about Software Supply Chain Best Practices. You can get the full document from their GitHub repo. This was the result of months of work from a large team, with special thanks to Jonathan Meadows and Emily Fox. As one of the CNCF reviewers I had the pleasure of reading several iterations and seeing it take shape and improve over…