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NetApp announced that Carrie Palin, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Splunk has joined its Board of Directors. Palin's appointment aligns with NetApp's commitment to diversity and a refreshed Board of Directors.
Two weeks ago, we wrote that the well-known and widely-used domain perl.com had been taken over by persons unknown. You can imagine why, if the original owner had allowed their registration of the domain to lapse, either by mistake or because they felt they no longer needed it, a new owner might be keen to snap it up.
The Ziggy ransomware operation has shut down and released the victims' decryption keys after concerns about recent law enforcement activity and guilt for encrypting victims. Over the weekend, security researcher M. Shahpasandi told BleepingComputer that the Ziggy Ransomware admin announced on Telegram that they were shutting down their operation and would be releasing all of the decryption keys.
A new targeted phishing campaign includes the novel obfuscation technique of using Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail invented morse code as a way of transmitting messages across telegraph wire.
The vulnerabilities range from Remote Code Execution to SQL Injection, to Denial of Service and impact the FortiProxy SSL VPN and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall products. Multiple advisories published by FortiGuard Labs this month and in January 2021 mention various critical vulnerabilities that Fortinet has been patching in their products.
Google is weaning itself off user-tracking "Cookies" which allow the web giant to deliver personalized ads but which also have raised the hackles of privacy defenders. Last month, Google unveiled the results of tests showing an alternative to the longstanding tracking practice, claiming it could improve online privacy while still enabling advertisers to serve up relevant messages.
Email security biz Mimecast not only fell victim to the SolarWinds hackers, leading to its own customers being attacked, it is also trimming its workforce amid healthy profits. Last month Mimecast revealed that one of its cryptographic certificates was purloined by the same team that smuggled a hidden backdoor into SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software.
Due to conflicting information BleepingComputer has received, we have removed our original article. [...]
Microsoft has suspended free trials of their newly launched Windows 365 Cloud PC service after running out of available servers. Windows 11's October 2021 release date hinted in support docs.
Microsoft has suspended free trials of their newly launched Windows 365 Cloud PC service after running out of available servers. Windows 11's October 2021 release date hinted in support docs.