Officials of PLDT Inc and Cisco announce their 5G partnership in Manila on April 11, 2019. Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News MANILA – PLDT Inc said Thursday it tapped global firm Cisco to develop 5G-ready transport network infrastructure, broadening its partnerships in rolling out the next generation connectivity standard. Cisco will build the 5G transport network using PLDT’s existing fiber facilities, company ...

PARIS – MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress – April 9, 2019 – Cisco announced today its involvement in helping Iliad deploy a state-of-the-art national IP Network, powered by Segment Routing IPv6 (SRv6), to provide a new mobile offering in Italy. This new architecture is built upon multiple products spanning the Cisco networking portfolio, including the ASR 9000 and new NCS 5500 routers for ...

GREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – Most city-owned computers remain offline for the second day as the FBI has joined in the investigation into the ransomware attack. The city shut down most computers early Wednesday after a police department employee noticed the virus. A city spokesman said they are victims of the “RobbinHood” ransomware, but they will not say how much the ransomware ...

Three waves of DNS hijacking attacks against consumer routers have been linked back to Google Cloud Platform abuse. Hackers have been abusing Google’s cloud computing service to redirect and intercept web and mail traffic on an array of vulnerable consumer routers. A researcher said that he has seen the Google Cloud Platform being abused to carry out three separate waves of DNS ...

There are Facebooks groups for moms, people who like trains, or old photographs of Chicago so it should come as no surprise that cybercriminals also use the social media network to discuss what they like. Cisco Talos found 74 Facebook groups with more than 385,000 members with dedicated to acts ranging from shady to illegal. “In all, Talos has compiled ...

London Blue scammers were spotted running BEC scams against employees in Asia who are working for companies in the US, Australia, or Europe. London Blue scammers are spoofing the email address of the target company’s CEO in order to add more authenticity to their scam emails. What is the issue – London Blue scammers were spotted running BEC scams against employees ...

Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords. Hundreds of millions of Facebook records – including account names, personal data, and more – have been found in two separate publicly-exposed app datasets. The first publicly-exposed dataset originates from a Mexico-based media company, Cultura Colectiva, and contains over 540 million records including ...

Google security researcher Matthew Garrett publicly released a zero day vulnerability he discovered in the TP-Link SR20 router smart home hub in one device. The device is designed to integrate with a user’s home automation kit that allows them to use the device as the core of their home network and to work with other smart devices. The vulnerability could ...

Crime without punishment: Group-IB issues a new report on JS-sniffers that infected 2440 websites around the world Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has issued a new comprehensive report on the analysis of JavaScript-sniffers – a type of malware designed to steal customer payment data from online stores. 2440 infected ecommerce websites with a total of around 1.5 million unique daily ...

In one instance, agents waited nine months to tell a company it had been breached, according to an internal watchdog. The FBI takes too long to notify groups when they’ve succumbed to cyberattacks, and the alerts those victims receive are often sparse on useful information, according to an internal watchdog. The Justice Department Inspector General found the bureau’s reliance on ...