Two women in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with a year-long cybercrime operation involving stolen identities and fraudulent benefit claims.  An investigation was launched by police in West Buechel at the beginning of January when they received a call from a local branch of the bank BB&T to say that a fraudulently authorized check for nearly $40,000 had just been cashed.  Police traced the fraudulent check to 57-year-old Lori Davis and subsequently obtained a search…

  Picture an infant with a credit card.In her name. With a $10,000 limit. Well, it happens. As recent as 2017, it was estimated that more than 1 million children in the U.S. were victims of identity theft. Of them, two-thirds were under the age of seven, and the total losses connected to all this fraud weighed in $2.6 billion dollars. As I mentioned in part one of our article on the connected lives of…

Researchers identify seven vulnerabilities in popular Domain Name System software. Background On January 19, researchers from the JSOF Research lab disclosed seven vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, a widely used open-source application for network infrastructure. Dubbed “DNSpooq” by the JSOF team, the acronym is a play on words as the vulnerabilities allow for Domain Name System (DNS) spoofing. The JSOF team also released a detailed whitepaper with technical details around their research. Image Source: JSOF The vulnerabilities…

  At times, Nicole Braun was the only female Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) in the entire country of New Zealand. In our 2021 podcast series debut, Nicole explains how she found success in the payments industry, against all odds, and why she thinks there are encouraging signs that a gender shift is coming.

With 3+ years in the market, VMware Cloud on AWS is helping customer accelerate their hybrid cloud journey in a fast, cost-effective manner with minimal risk and has garnered real-world satisfaction among customers and partners due to its consistent infrastructure and operations and seamless migration capabilities. And that’s why VMware Cloud on AWS has been awarded Winner of CRN’s 2020 Products of The Year: Best Hybrid Cloud solution based on Customer Demand VMware Cloud on…

More than three-quarters of applications in the retail and hospitality sector contain at least one vulnerability, with a high percentage of these requiring urgent attention, according to Veracode. The application security vendor analyzed more than 130,000 applications to compile its latest State of Software Security report. However, while the 76% of buggy apps in the retail and hospitality sector is about average compared to other verticals, Veracode warned that 26% are high severity — one…