The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Cloud hosted email services have come into wide use as the go-to communication and collaboration work tools for businesses far and wide. In 2021, on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes commanded a 43 percent global market share as compared to 57 percent for cloud Exchange mailboxes, according to this report from Statista.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2024

Both TruePeopleSearch and FastPeopleSearch allow users to search for reports by first and last name, but proceeding to order a report prompts the visitor to purchase the file from one of several established people-finder services, including BeenVerified, Intelius , and Spokeo. com was registered in June 2020 via Alibaba Cloud Beijing.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

This results from companies chasing after agile software development and cloud-centric innovations, above all else. In aggressively leveraging digital services to achieve productivity gains they’ve also exponentially multiplied security gaps across a steadily expanding network attack surface.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Cloud Access Security Brokers – aka “caz-bees” — have come a long way in a short time. CASBs, a term coined by tech industry consultancy Gartner, first cropped about seven years ago to help organizations enforce security and governance policies as they commenced, in earnest, their march into the cloud.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This weakness is not specific to Windows but instead exists within the HTTP/2 protocol used by the World Wide Web: Attackers have figured out how to use a feature of HTTP/2 to massively increase the size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and these monster attacks reportedly have been going on for several weeks now.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 21, 2024

And even though the market continues to push to the cloud, the mainframe continues to go strong – and it will continue to have a place in computing well into the future. Some options include: Full Cloud Migration: Transitioning the mainframe entirely to the cloud. Each organization’s journey will be unique.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The popular service, ChatGPT , is based on OpenAI ’s LLM, which taps into everything available across the Internet through 2021, plus anything a user cares to feed into it. This new service feeds vast data sets of threat intel into a customized LLM tuned to generate answers to nuanced security questions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The secret to mainstreaming the mainframe into today’s modern, cloud-centric IT environments is to make the experience of working with the mainframe like the experience of working off the mainframe—especially the developer experience (DX). The IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack runs on Red Hat OpenShift on AWS.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2019

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. based iNSYNQ specializes in providing cloud-based QuickBooks accounting software and services. A message from iNSYNQ to customers.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Image: Imperva. ”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Cloud security builds off of the same IT infrastructure and security stack principles of a local data center. However, a cloud vendor offering provides a pre-packaged solution that absorbs some operational and security responsibilities from the customer. Also read: CNAP Platforms: The Next Evolution of Cloud Security.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. A slew of new cloud-security frameworks have gained traction since the Capital One hack. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

APIs interconnect the underlying components of modern digital services in a very flexible, open way. This has resulted in astounding innovations in cloud services, mobile computing, IoT systems and agile software development. Related: How a dynamic WAF can help protect SMBs. How WAAP can help.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Related: Why IoT standards matter Digital Trust refers to the level of confidence both businesses and consumers hold in digital products and services – not just that they are suitably reliable, but also that they are as private and secure as they need to be. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

” The final zero day in this month’s Patch Tuesday is a problem in the “Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver” tracked as CVE-2023-36036 that affects Windows 10 and later, as well as Windows Server 2008 at later. and CVE-2023-36413 : A Microsoft Office security feature bypass.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Then the Internet took off and trusting the connection between a user’s device and a web server became of paramount importance. Our smart buildings, smart transportation systems and smart online services are all network-connected at multiple levels. LW provides consulting services to the vendors we cover.).

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 27, 2022

OpenText™ and Google Cloud kicked off an exciting new strategic partnership in 2019 at OpenText World, where OpenText named Google Cloud its preferred cloud partner and Google Cloud selected OpenText as its preferred partner for Information Management (IM) services.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. And fantastic new IoT-enabled services will spew out of the other end. Sundaralingam’s break down: “There’s a different level of complexity in the cloud environment. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 11, 2024

Look behind the scenes of any slick mobile application or commercial interface, and deep beneath the integration and service layers of any major enterprise’s application architecture, you will likely find mainframes running the show. For them, the work may not seem as sexy as mobile app design or as agile as cloud native development.

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AIIM

APRIL 14, 2022

Cloud-based systems and applications are popular across organizations in all industries today and are largely regarded as a powerful platform for process innovation and improved organizational performance. According to the IDG 2021 Cloud Computing Survey , the majority (55%) of organizations are now using more than one public cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2022

Internal and external network boundaries gave way to agile software development and everything-as-a-hosted-service. They live-and-die by the tenants of open-source and DevOps and lean on cloud-native IT infrastructure. Erkang gave me the example of a company seeking to take stock of its cloud data stores.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 12, 2023

IBM’s recommendations included API-specific improvements, bot UX optimization, workflow optimization, DevOps microservices and design consideration, and best practices for Azure manage services. The need to digitally transform touches every organization, in every industry.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffered a ransomware attack this week that severed payroll management services for hundreds of the company’s customers for nearly three days. Faced with the threat of an extended outage, Apex chose to pay the ransom demand and begin the process of restoring service to customers.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. A shift from legacy, perimeter-focused network defenses to dynamic, interoperable defenses at the cloud edge, directed at ephemeral software connections, must fully play out.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2021

But with mounting pressure to replace legacy, perimeter-centric defenses with cloud- and hybrid-cloud protection, many organizations are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The last few years have looked like an arms race to the cloud, and as a result, a lot of projects fail. Leverage third-party resources wisely.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. An ad for the OTP interception service/bot “SMSRanger.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2023

” Security firm Rapid7 points out that this bug affects self-hosted versions of Outlook like Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise , but Microsoft-hosted online services like Microsoft 365 are not vulnerable. And feel free to sound off in the comments if you experience any problems as a result of these patches.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 11, 2024

Virtualized recovery plans (VRPs): A virtualized recovery plan is on-demand software as a service (SaaS) that relies on virtual machine (VM) instances that can be ready to operate within a couple of minutes of an interruption. To recover from a cyberattack, enterprises often turn to a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provider.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Related: How ‘SASE’ is disrupting cloud security. A compromised RPD instance opens the door to so-called “ living-off-the-land ” attacks by which an intruder takes control of numerous other embedded admin tools to carry out malicious activities. This has long been the case. RPD presents a similar exposure.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 4, 2021

The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. Trust is a much-debated topic in cloud security. With customers increasingly being less trusting of how companies store and process their data in the cloud, encrypting this data and controlling the encryption keys is essential for building trust.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2022

On top of the critical heap this month is CVE-2022-30190 , a vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows. Microsoft also is taking flak from security experts regarding a different set of flaws in its Azure cloud hosting platform. ” Amit Yoran , CEO of Tenable and a former U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 26, 2021

Access Management and Data Protection Key Factors for Successful Migration to the Cloud. Although organizations across many sectors have accelerated the adoption of cloud environments, the financial institutions have been rather reluctant in migrating their services to the cloud. Benefits and risks of the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Companies are embracing hybrid cloud deployments like never before, mixing and matching on-premises IT systems with off-premises cloud services. Without this provisioning of access privileges to human and non-human identities, hybrid cloud commerce would not be possible. Superpowered identities. Every VM is lost.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thales & Prime Factors’ 30 Year Collaboration Continues to Deliver Simplicity, Flexibility, and Security for Payment Applications madhav Thu, 09/14/2023 - 10:25 Thales recently announced the launch of the payShield Cloud HSM service , making it easier and more flexible for payment HSMs to migrate to the cloud.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a lot of interest and discussion about the cloud these days— and for good reason. As business leaders and department heads identify impediments to their teams’ effectiveness, they are beginning to recognize that the cloud is not just about storage; it’s about flexibility, process improvement, and savings.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 12, 2023

A common use case in the cloud is attaching/removing volumes dynamically. In IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC , the disk that is attached to the VSI is identified by the volume attachment identifier. 1 root root 9 Apr 7 12:52 virtio-cloud-init- -> /./vdc 1 root root 9 Apr 7 12:52 virtio-cloud-init-0727_fa42 -> /./vdb

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

This is all part of corporations plunging into the near future: migration to cloud-based IT infrastructure is in high gear, complexity is mushrooming and fear of falling behind is keeping the competitive heat on. It reinforces the notion that a new portfolio of cloud-centric security frameworks must take hold, the sooner the better.

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