Security News > 2020 > May
To help organisations secure and protect their important business data, Proact, Europe's leading independent data centre and cloud services provider, has launched BaaS-O365 - a new backup and recovery service for customers using Microsoft Office 365. BaaS-O365 is a new managed service from Proact that provides complete backup and recovery for Office 365 Business/Enterprise data, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
The Indian government has acknowledged "Potential security issues" in the Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app which its opposition labels as a "Surveillance system with no oversight", but says the code issues are not that big a deal. Unlike other nations' contact-tracing apps, Aarogya Setu is not open source or known to be based on other open-source efforts.
New Relic, the industry's largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create more perfect software, introduced New Relic Edge with Infinite Tracing. New Relic Edge with Infinite Tracing observes all of a workload's trace data, and then forwards the most relevant data to New Relic for easy visualization in order for teams to find errors faster.
Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, announced its SoCreative!V SoC development platform based upon Faraday's A500 SoC in UMC's 28HPC process. The platform features an ARM Cortex-A53 Quad core with up to 1.4GHz clock rate; delivering an all-in-one solution with multiple, extendable, high-speed interfaces addressing current market demands for high-performance computing applications, such as 5G, networking, AIoT, High-Def Projectors, Multimedia, and MFP. With the introduction of the SoCreative!V Platform, Faraday provides numerous integrated high speed interfaces including DDR4, USB 3.0 OTG, PCIe gen3 and Gigabit Ethernet.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that HPE GreenLake Central, unveiled in December 2019, is now generally available for HPE GreenLake customers. HPE GreenLake is the market leading platform for delivering on-premises IT as-a-Service, and one of the fastest-growing businesses in HPE with more than 800 enterprise customers worldwide and over 500 partners selling today.
The ToIP Foundation will use digital identity models that leverage interoperable digital wallets and credentials and the new W3C Verifiable Credentials standard to address these challenges and enable consumers, businesses and governments to better manage risk, improve digital trust and protect all forms of identity online. "The ToIP Foundation has the promise to provide the digital trust layer that was missing in the original design of the Internet and to trigger a new era of human possibility," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation.
RMS, the world's leading catastrophe risk solutions company, announced significant new model and product releases and updates for RMS Risk Intelligence. Risk Modeler 2.0 is a break-through product release at RMS, running on RMS Risk Intelligence.
Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and DigiCert. In a separate development, the Salt vulnerability was used to hack into DigiCert certificate authority as well.
Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and DigiCert. In a separate development, the Salt vulnerability was used to hack into DigiCert certificate authority as well.
Absolute, the leader in Endpoint Resilience, announced it is enabling customers to self-heal even more of their mission-critical security controls, recently adding support for applications from Tanium and Citrix to ensure they remain healthy and virtually undeletable. Early findings from Absolute's upcoming 2020 State of Endpoint Resilience Report show the typical enterprise endpoint device has more than 10 distinct endpoint security agents running - all competing for the bandwidth and resources needed to function effectively and deliver their intended value.