VMware Fusion for Apple silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html To deliver Fusion for Apple Silicon devices we’ve had to re-evaluate every part of the Fusion technology stack. The scope and scale of this undertaking should not be understated, and the success of this project has been the result …

WISPAPALOOZA 2021 – Network Security talk

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WhatsApp Vulnerability

A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app’s memory. https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/whatsapp-photo-filter-bug-could-have.html

DDoS attacks in high bandwidth bursts

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ddos-attacks-hitting-victims-in-high-bandwidth-bursts Security firm Imperva culled the intelligence from nearly 5,600 network-level attacks encountered by its clients to find that attackers continued to increase the intensity of attacks as they also shortened attack duration. More than half of the attacks lasted eight minutes …

Data of 70 million AT&T users exposed

https://cybernews.com/news/att-database-of-70-million-users-sold-on-hacker-forum/ ShinyHunters, the same group of threat actors that posted T-Mobile users’ data for sale just days ago, is now selling 70 million records that allegedly belong to another mobile service provider – AT&T. The sample of data for sale includes …