The main cyber-threat trends during COVID-19 and how they will affect the UK going forward were discussed by Eleanor Fairford, head of incident management at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), during the keynote session on day two of the Infosecurity Europe virtual conference. Fairford began by describing the new opportunities that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented to cyber-criminals and nation-state actors. Cyber-criminals have been able to “make the most of people’s vulnerabilities during this period…

Most senior executives believe more money is needed to protect trade secrets from malicious third parties and insider threats, and many are prepared to spy on staff to do so, according to a new study from global law firm CMS. The firm commissioned The Economist Intelligence Unit to interview over 300 senior corporate executives from various sectors in China, France, Germany, Singapore, the UK and the US.   Three-quarters (75%) agreed that greater investment was…

News Detail Lowering the cost and complexity of deploying new services by stitching together multiple cloud and edge environments through a unifying real-time framework AUSTIN & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) and Vapor IO today announced they are building a Multi-Cloud Services Grid that integrates the VMware Telco Cloud Platform with Vapor IO’s Kinetic Grid platform, … Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 Lowering the cost and complexity of deploying new services by stitching…

Microsoft announced patches for a half-century of CVEs this month, including seven zero-day vulnerabilities, six of which are being actively exploited in the wild. The six vulnerabilities in question start with CVE-2021-31955, an information disclosure bug in Windows kernel, and remote code execution flaw CVE-2021-33742. The rest are elevation of privilege bugs in Windows NTFS (CVE-2021-31956), the Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider (CVE-2021-31199 and CVE-2021-31201) and the Microsoft DWM Core Library (CVE-2021-33739). In addition, CVE-2021-31968 is a…

In a world that is constantly evaluating costs, it is little wonder that there is an increasing demand for cost-effective solutions to business problems. In the real world, this means ‘free,’ and in the digital marketplace, it means ‘open source.’ Open Source aka “Freeware” Since the early days of the internet, open source software (OSS) has been with us. At that time, though, it was more popularly known as “freeware.” It was only when the…

Global law enforcers are celebrating today after a three-year operation across 16 countries led to the arrest of 800 and the seizure of over 30 tons of narcotics. Europol described operation Greenlight/Trojan Shield as “one of the largest and most sophisticated law enforcement operations to date.” According to The Economist, it was made possible after the developer of an encrypted device service known as Anom turned informant back in 2018. This allowed the FBI and…