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It's important for security and IT professionals to understand how the California Consumer Privacy Act will affect how they do their jobs. Businesses that fail to comply with CCPA could face penalties of up to $7,500 per violation and individuals can seek damages through a class action.
2 - the world's largest nonprofit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals - announced that David Shearer, CISSP, the association's current CEO, will step down at the end of 2020 after serving in the role since 2015. The2 Board of Directors has initiated a CEO recruitment search to identify an experienced leader to succeed Shearer and guide the organization on a path of continued growth as demand for certified cybersecurity professionals continues to grow exponentially worldwide.
Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security platform, announced the latest addition to its Starlight platform's built-in App Store, a new Entity Behavior Analytics app. It provides a unified view of all assets across networks, endpoints and cloud environments by assigning a risk score to each asset based on observed security events and related risk profiles.
The intruders swiped, from staff email accounts no less, customer info including names and addresses; Social Security numbers; government-issued ID, such as passport numbers and driver's license numbers; credit card and financial account information; and health-related information. Vimeo says account info taken from infected user PCs. Video sharing site Vimeo believes a malware infection has targeted some of its user accounts for theft.
FiberLight, a fiber infrastructure provider with more than 20 years of construction experience building mission-critical, high-bandwidth networks, announces that it has been chosen as the lit network service provider of choice by Nextlink Internet across its Texas network. Nextlink had an existing 10GB network ring in place through FiberLight, but the company needed to expand its network infrastructure with 70 additional fiber-fed towers.
The most serious of the holes, CVE-2020-3947, is a vulnerability in VMware Workstation and Fusion that can be exploited by a miscreant or malware in a guest VM to gain code execution on the host box via the vmnetdhcp component. "Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to code execution on the host from the guest or may allow attackers to create a denial-of-service condition of the vmnetdhcp service running on the host machine," VMware said of the bug.
Thales and Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications company are working with Microsoft and Arduino to pave the way for scalable security for connected IoT devices, by implementing a solution that enables trusted and secure end-to-end communication between device and cloud. That's why Thales, Telstra, Microsoft and Arduino decided to team up to work on a solution that addresses the challenge of securely and efficiently connecting IoT devices to clouds in the most simplified way and through cellular networks.
By orchestrating the many vulnerability scanning tools organizations use, ZeroNorth bridges the gap between application security, development and security operations. In 2019, ZeroNorth increased annual recurring revenue by more than 300% while doubling its customer base.
Cohesity announces the appointment of Junichi Iwakami as President and Representative Director of Cohesity Japan, effective on March 16, 2020. Under his leadership, Cohesity Japan will continue delivering modern data management software that enables businesses to easily back up, store, manage, and derive insights from their data - on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge - through the Cohesity DataPlatform.
Setting out to find out, the researcher turned to the main domain registrars - GoDaddy, Namecheap and even Google Domains - to first see if he could snag appropriate URLs. "The great thing about using a proxy is that my domain's links previews, in every single platform, fetches Google Translate's exact description while pointing to my link," the researcher explained.