Security News > 2021 > June
Controversial mogul and antivirus pioneer John McAfee on Wednesday died by suicide in a jail cell in Barcelona, hours after reports that he would be extradited to face federal charges in the U.S. McAfee was 75. Security personnel at the Brians 2 prison tried to revive McAfee, but he was eventually declared dead, per Associated Press.
Hackers are scanning for and actively exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco ASA devices after a PoC exploit was published on Twitter. This Cisco ASA vulnerability is cross-site scripting vulnerability that is tracked as CVE-2020-3580.
SOC burnout is real: 3 preventative steps every CISO must takeFor those that spend every day as a security professional and for anyone who truly appreciates the demands applied to these essential security team members, burnout is a harsh reality. Cloud security skills in high demandCloud security is critically important for organizations across the globe as adoption of cloud infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid clip.
Google Anthos is a Kubernetes-based cloud platform that allows companies to run applications unmodified anywhere, on-premises, at the edge, or in any cloud using containers. Taos' Google Anthos Adoption Service helps companies accelerate their adoption of a containerized application environment by rapidly deploying a prescriptive blueprint architecture of Anthos GKE on-premises and establishing a service mesh and configuration management between Anthos GKE on-premises data centers and GKE elements on Google Cloud.
Zettaset announced that XCrypt Kubernetes Encryption is available on the VMware Marketplace. VMware Marketplace enables customers to discover and deploy compatible, validated third-party solutions to VMware environments.
SoftServe has appointed Adriyan Pavlykevych as Chief Information Security Officer, effective immediately. Pavlykevych has almost 20 years of experience with SoftServe.
An open-source application called WhyNotWin11 acts as a better drop-in replacement for Microsoft's PC Health Check app to determine if your hardware is compatible with Windows 11. This week, Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows is Windows 11 would be the next version of Windows and that it would be released as a free upgrade this fall.
Microsoft says they have discovered new attacks conducted by the Russian state-sponsored Nobelium hacking group, including a hacked Microsoft support agent's computer that exposed customer's subscription information. During the investigation into the attacks, Microsoft also detected an information-stealing trojan on a Microsoft customer support agent's computer that provided access to "Basic account information" for a limited number of customers.
Microsoft has now confirmed signing a malicious driver being distributed within gaming environments. Community in tracing and analyzing the malicious drivers bearing the seal of Microsoft.
The spies who backdoored SolarWinds' Orion software infiltrated Microsoft's support desk systems last month and obtained information to use in cyber-attacks on some of the Windows giant's customers, it was reported. Microsoft customers targeted by the support desk intruder have been alerted.