Security News > 2020 > May
Ekinops, a leading supplier of advanced networking solutions for service providers and global enterprises, announces its first major 10Gb/s access win in Europe with a seven-figure contract. Ekinops recently released 10G-capable Ethernet Access Devices and routers for the Enterprise Edge connectivity market with the ambition of entering this high-end segment.
Unisys announced the U.S. government certification of Unisys Stealth to protect information as it flows between Stealth-enabled endpoints. The new certification confirms that Stealth meets the stringent requirements of the NIAP Virtual Private Network PP-Module for VPN Client Version 2.1 and the NIAP Protection Profile for Application Software Version 1.3.
D-ID plans to direct the funds to grow its sales and marketing activities, as well as continue to invest in R&D. "Raising this level of investor interest during a period of economic uncertainty speaks to the need our solutions fill," said Sella Blondheim, COO and co-founder at D-ID. "The convergence of increased surveillance and individual privacy protection places enterprises in a position where they must either anonymize their stored footage or risk violating privacy laws and face costly penalties." D-ID provides privacy solutions to enterprises who record or photograph individuals.
Intrusion announced that its Board of Directors has named Jack B. Blount to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are excited to have Jack join Intrusion. He is an experienced executive with a tremendous amount of experience," stated Michael L. Paxton, Vice President and CFO of Intrusion.
Pearson, the world's learning company, announced the promotion of Alexa Christon to chief marketing officer reporting to chief corporate affairs officer, Deirdre Latour. Since coming to Pearson a year ago, Alexa has made major strides in developing a global brand strategy and deploying that strategy to enable Pearson's ongoing transformation to the world's online learning company.
An operation from the China-based cybercrime gang known as DoubleGun Group has been disrupted, which had amassed hundreds of thousands of bots that were controlled via public cloud services, including Alibaba and Baidu Tieba. The gang used Alibaba Cloud storage and China's largest online community, Baidu Tieba, to host configuration files; and URL addresses hosted by Tencent Weiyun were used to manage the activity of the infected hosts, researchers said.
COVID-19 phishing emails have been bombarding inboxes since the virus began to spread in December and January. Cybersecurity company INKY pored through the months of coronavirus-themed phishing emails and compiled a report on where most of them were coming from, finding that the majority of IP addresses found in email headers originated from the United States.
HackerOne announced on Wednesday that its bug bounty platform has helped researchers earn more than $100 million since the company started paying hackers in October 2013. The San Francisco-based company reported in late February that it had paid out a total of over $82 million in bounties, $40 million of which was awarded in 2019 alone.
Developed nations have higher incomes, technology, urbanization, and digitalization, which are all factors for greater cyber risk, says VPN provider NordVPN. Any person, organization, or country can be a victim of cybercrime, but some people and places are more susceptible than others. Looking at 50 different countries across the world, NordVPN found that people in developed nations are more likely to become victims of cybercrime.
Russian-owned blogging service LiveJournal has reportedly suffered a hack affecting 26 million user accounts. One year later a forked spinoff of LiveJournal called Dreamwidth began noticing credential-stuffing attacks.