A majority of the open source codebases found in commercial applications analyzed by Synopsys contained security vulnerabilities. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Applications that use open source code offer a host of benefits, including transparency, flexibility, cost effectiveness and community support. But how do such products fare on security? Though the community-based approach toward open source means that security flaws should be identified quickly, patching those flaws and applying the patches is another matter. SEE: Top 5 programming…

Two of Tasmania’s four casinos have been forced to close their doors following a cyber-attack. Threat actors struck the Australian island state’s sole casino operator Federal Group with ransomware on April 3. The attack affected hotel booking systems in the company’s Wrest Point and Country Club venues, sited in Sandy Bay and Launceston, respectively. The venues’ slot machines, known as pokies in Tasmania, were also impacted and have been out of service since the attack.  Federal…

A couple of weeks ago, VMware announced VMware Cloud Universal, a new flexible program that simplifies the purchase of VMware Cloud infrastructure services and management services across multi-cloud environments, providing customers with choice and flexibility in how they adopt VMware Cloud modular offerings over time and at their own pace. Today, VMware officially launches the VMware Cloud service, a multi-cloud service for all apps across data center, edge, and public cloud environments and the new…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Cobalt Group, FIN6, NetWalker, OilRig, Rocke Group, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending…

By Sridhar Iyengar, MD, Zoho Europe Large tech corporations have started turning into surveillance companies, tracking the behaviour of businesses and users who have become heavily reliant on their services and platforms. Through advertising-first business models, Big Tech is increasingly putting user and business data at risk. The more tech companies know about their users, the more they can direct them to goods and services that they are most likely to buy and in turn…

Over the years, VMware has built vital products for our vibrant user base – from Developers, DevOps users, IT Admins & Cloud Admins to Security Admins & Database Admins. Our customers use VMware products, in conjunction with a wide array of open-source and third-party tools, to create and maintain modern, future-ready applications that form the building blocks of today’s global business world – on any cloud and any device. VMware took a further step towards…