A California man has been charged with securities fraud after allegedly tricking cryptocurrency investors out of millions and using actor Steven Seagal to promote a fake company. John DeMarr, 55, of Santa Ana, was charged in a complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York. He is said to have conspired with others to defraud victims out of $11.4m by persuading them to invest in dud companies. The complaint alleged that between 2017 and 2018,…

CSO Online | Feb 2, 2021 Liberty Mutual’s Cybersecurity and Cloud Specialist Don Richard, IDC’s Program VP for Cybersecurity Products Frank Dickson, and IDG’s Editor-in-Chief of Enterprise Eric Knorr are all experts on cloud security. They discuss the nexus of how cloud security has shifted over the last five to seven years, what it looks like today, and how to prepare your organization for success in a cloud security future. Copyright © 2021 IDG Communications,…

The number of identity theft reports filed with US consumer protection authorities doubled over the past year thanks to the impact of the pandemic. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in an update yesterday that it received 1.4 million such reports last year, twice the number filed in 2019. The surge in cases coincided with the country’s slip into recession and soaring unemployment rate as COVID-19 took hold early last year, the FTC claimed. “After the…

Tripwire’s January 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Dnsmasq and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Dnsmasq related to the seven so-called “DNSpooq” vulnerabilities. Dnsmasq is an open-source DNS forwarding application, and systems using this software should patch as soon as possible. Up next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Edge, Excel, Office and Word. These patches resolve over…

Public 5G networks, private 5G networks, broader attack surfaces, and more complex environments add extra layers of vulnerability, expert says. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Curtis Simpson, CISO of Armis, an Internet of Things (IoT) security company, about security concerns with 5G. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: We talk a lot about 5G, of course, and all different facets of the technology. We talk a lot about security as…

5G: More speed adds more vulnerabilities, IoT security expert says Length: 10:56 | Feb 1, 2021 CISOs need to be more vigilant about building cybersecurity into projects from the beginning, one CISO says. Source link