Over the past three years of continuous operations, we have relentlessly optimized and improved the VMware Cloud on AWS service. Today we’re ecstatic to announce that we’ve effectively removed Stretched Cluster Cross-AZ charges from within the service. Why the change? A little over a year ago, we reduced the price of Cross-AZ charges by 95%. With three years of customer data to review, we’ve determined that we can relax 100% of the charges for our customers….

Using VoIP calls, the attackers trick people into logging into phishing sites as a way to steal their usernames and passwords. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The FBI is cautioning companies to beware of a slew of voice phishing attacks aimed at capturing the login credentials of employees. SEE: Social engineering: A cheat sheet for business professionals (free PDF) (TechRepublic)  In an advisory released last Thursday, the FBI revealed that as of December 2019, cybercriminals have been working together…

Increased use of edge computing could “put AI everywhere,” according to Hikvision’s trends roundup. Image: iStock/ismagilov In recent months, there’s been a surge in cybersecurity attacks as criminals seek to exploit the coronavirus pandemic, the vulnerabilities of a remote workforce, and more. As details continue to emerge from the massive SolarWinds hack and fallout, many organizations are assessing their cybersecurity capabilities. On Jan. 7, Hikvision released a report outlining 10 of the top security trends…

New research by New Zealand company Emsisoft has found that a cyber-blackmail tactic first debuted by ransomware gang MAZE has been adopted by over a dozen other criminal cyber-gangs. The internationally renowned security software company declared a ransomware crisis in the last month of 2019. Their latest ransomware report shows that this particular type of malware has had a huge impact on the United States in 2020. Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow described the numbers in “The…

The number of suspicious domains that feature the word “vaccine” in their title increased by almost 100% in the month after the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was given outside of a clinical trial. British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the vaccine on December 8, 2020, a week before her 91st birthday.  New research by American cybersecurity software company Webroot observed that December 8 through January 6, there was an 94.8% increase in suspicious…

A report from NordVPN finds disagreement on which political leader does better on privacy issues, whether disinformation should be banned, and what the biggest cyberthreat is. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto VPN service provider NordVPN has released the results of a Politics and Digital Privacy Study conducted on US citizens, finding party line divisions on many issues, but general agreement on others, such as whether Big Tech should be liable for its use of personal data or…

Work from home has reshaped the IT attack surface, so cyber thieves and nation states are retooling in hopes of finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities. Which means that CIOs need to shore up their defenses across the IT ecosystem. Including, of course, hackers’ favorite portal into the enterprise: client PCs. At CES last week, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, the three largest PC vendors, all unveiled a spate of new business laptops with security enhancements like…