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It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity. "It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself, but today that's exactly what we allege Adam Rogas did," Sweeney said in a statement.
According to the just-released 2020 State of Security Operations survey of 314 enterprise security professionals, enterprise security teams around the world feel that they struggle with the growing pace, volume and sophistication of cyberattacks. Thanks to manual triage processes and disparate and legacy security tools permeating most environments, 28 percent of alerts are simply never addressed, the survey, released Thursday, found.
Looking for an easy to use encryption tool to protect data on your Linux servers? Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use gocryptfs to serve that very purpose. The gocryptfs tool allows you to encrypt only the directories you need.
As states deal with re-opening and in some cases, re-closing, the reality is that for many organizations, remote work will play a significant role in business through 2020 and beyond. The experience of the pandemic has made businesses realize that the reasons to retain, or possibly expand, their remote-work strategies quickly outnumbered the reasons against remote work becoming a standard part of an organization's business process going forward.
The operators of the Maze ransomware have added a fresh trick to their bag of badness: Distributing ransomware payloads via virtual machines. "In an earlier attack, Ragnar Locker also deployed a virtual machine in an attempt to bypass protection measures," Sophos researchers explained.
Users in the US would be unable to download the two Chinese-owned apps from local app stores, according to the Department of Commerce. On Friday, the Department of Commerce announced that both apps will be blocked as downloads across US app stores.
The crooks are usually already inside your network by the time they unleash the ransomware part of their attack, and they usually spend the early part of their attack mapping out your network and acquiring similar access powers to your own sysadmins. The report is the result of an investigation by indefatigable Sophos Managed Threat Response expert Peter Mackenzie and his colleagues, who were called in to deal with a network attack by the infamous Maze ransomware gang.
The founder and CEO of NS8, a cyber fraud prevention and protection company, has been charged with fraud just months after the firm raised $123 million in funding, the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Thursday. The DoJ said Adam Rogas, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was arrested and charged with securities fraud, fraud in the offer and sale of securities, and wire fraud.
The US Department of Commerce has threatened to ban new downloads of Chinese-owned social media platforms Tiktok and Wechat from app stores this weekend. Starting from Sunday 20 September, the two Chinese-owned apps will be banned from being hosted on US app stores.
Patients and donors to at least four different health care providers in Minnesota are being notified that their personal information may have been compromised. The potential data breach involves hundreds of thousands of patients and donors at Children's Minnesota, Allina Health, Regions Hospital and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare.