Active accounts for people who have left your organization are ripe for exploitation, according to Sophos. Michael Borgers, Getty Images/iStockphoto Cybercriminals can choose a variety of ways to infiltrate and compromise an organization as a prelude to ransomware. One tried and true method is to exploit an admin account. And if it’s an account that’s no longer being used by an employee but is still available, so much the better. A report released Tuesday by…

A leading global manufacturer of cranes has been hit by what appears to be a ransomware attack disrupting IT operations around the world. Headquartered in Austria, Palfinger Group is renowned for producing hydraulic lifting and loading systems and runs scores of companies in over 30 countries. The firm issued a brief statement on Monday revealing it is the target of an ongoing global cyber-attack. “IT infrastructure is disrupted at the moment (including sending and receiving…

Benjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety,” which helps capture the conundrum of data privacy in today’s digital society. It’s all about tradeoffs—and everyone needs to understand there are serious privacy risks when interacting online.  In recognition of international Data Privacy Day, below are five ways you can make informed privacy choices while taking immediate action to protect the sensitive…

Global law enforcement agencies have seized control of Emotet infrastructure, disrupting one of the world’s most pervasive and dangerous cyber threats. A coordinated global law enforcement operation has disrupted the infrastructure of Emotet, one of the world’s most dangerous botnets and a vector for malware and ransomware attacks. Participating authorities include Europol, the FBI, and the UK’s National Crime Agency, along with agencies from Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, Europol reports. The…

Written by Sean Lyngaas Jan 27, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP U.S. and European law enforcement agencies said Wednesday they had seized control of the computing infrastructure used by Emotet, a botnet of infected machines that has been one of the most pervasive cybercrime threats over the last six years. Through the police and the courts, investigators from Ukraine to Germany to the U.S. took aim at the hundreds of computer servers that Emotet has used globally…

This opening post in a new lab series provides a walkthrough for installing the latest iteration of vSphere 7.0; bringing cloud-native workloads to the data centre with embedded Kubernetes and Tanzu. vSphere 7.0 was initially released in June 2020, and followed up with vSphere 7.0 Update 1 in October 2020. The current version at the time of writing is vSphere 7.0 Update 1c. You can track the latest releases and build numbers in this KB…