New AWS Competency Category – Why It’s Important
AWS DevOps competency recently added a new category, DevSecOps to its arsenal. Explore our overview of the category and why it matters to security and development teams building in the cloud.
Month: April 2022
How one senior developer brings the startup spirit to Microsoft
Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000
Igor Sakhnov, corporate vice president of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with software engineer George Maina about his entrepreneurial journey and the beginnings of the Microsoft Africa Development Center in Kenya.
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Read moreRansomware Survey 2022 – like the Curate’s Egg, “good in parts”
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:22:43 +0000
You might not like the headline statistics in this year’s ransomware report… but that makes it even more important to take a look!
Read moreNew APT Group Earth Berberoka Targets Gambling Websites With Old and New Malware
Credit to Author: Daniel Lunghi| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We recently found a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group that we have dubbed Earth Berberoka (aka GamblingPuppet). This APT group targets gambling websites on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms using old and new malware families.
Read moreFighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:27:35 +0000
When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide.
Read moreThe State of Ransomware 2022
Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:48:59 +0000
Explore the real-world ransomware experiences of 5,600 IT professionals working at the frontline
Read moreNorth Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones to Access Forbidden Media
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000
A new report suggests that a small but vibrant group of smartphones hackers may be challenging the world’s most digitally restrictive regime.
Read moreRussia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
From “IT Army” DDoS attacks to custom malware, the country has become a target like never before.
Read moreElon Musk’s Twitter Buy Exposes a Privacy Minefield
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:54:55 +0000
The social network’s user data and more will soon be at the whims of the world’s richest man. Who’s worried?
Read more“URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!!” 419 scammer wants your help to move someone’s inheritance
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:09:41 +0000
A bank executive needs your help to move a client’s inheritance. Yes, you read that right.
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