Security News > 2020 > June
Limelight Networks announced Christine Cross has been appointed SVP, Chief Marketing Officer and will lead the company's global marketing organization. "As we execute our strategy and focus on edge services and video delivery, and to further accelerate our business momentum, we're excited to announce the addition of Christine to the Limelight Leadership team," said Bob Lento, Chief Executive Officer.
The co-owners of vDOS, a now-defunct service that for four years helped paying customers launch more than two million distributed denial-of-service attacks that knocked countless Internet users and websites offline, each have been sentenced to six months of community service by an Israeli court. A judge in Israel handed down the sentences plus fines and probation against Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri, both Israeli citizens arrested in 2016 at age 18 in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS. Until it was shuttered in 2016, vDOS was by far the most reliable and powerful DDoS-for-hire or "Booter" service on the market, allowing even completely unskilled Internet users to launch crippling assaults capable of knocking most websites offline.
5G adoption, security and worldwide market trendsWith 5G adoption ramping up all over the world, we sat down with Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas, to learn more about the current 5G landscape. Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption only to paying customersAs Zoom continues on its path to bring end-to-end encryption to users, the big news is that only paid users will have access to the option.
National Geographic has a photo of a 7-foot long shark that fought a giant squid and lived to tell the tale. Or, at least, lived to show off the suction marks on his skin.
The British Army has raised a new regiment that will take charge of its in-house security operations centre, a move calculated to make cyber defence a more mainstream part of all things armed and camouflaged. The Ministry of Defence stated that 13 Sigs will "Provide the basis of the new Army Cyber Information Security Operations Centre, focusing on the protection of Defence's cyber domain."
Children's app developer HyperBeard has agreed to pay $150,000 after being accused by the Federal Trade Commission of illegally collecting children's data without parental consent. A recent complaint filed by the Department of Justice claims that the app developer allowed third-party ad networks to collect personal data from children using its apps - without notifying parents or obtaining verifiable parental consent.
Business process services provider Conduent has been the victim of a ransomware attack that appears to be the work of Maze operators. The attackers deployed ransomware onto compromised systems, and while Conduent said it was able to restore everything fast, some services were still impacted.
Kenenty Hwan Kim admitted in federal court that he had carried out the elaborate schemes, which involved spoofed emails that purported to be internal communications from executives at the target companies. The fake email said that Chance was having issues receiving check payments from Solid Bridge, and then asked Solid Bridge to mail a check to another mailing address instead. Kim provided a mailing address, and Solid Bridge dutifully wrote out a check and mailed it - the address of course turned out to be bogus.
Known to Akamai researchers as Stealthworker, the infection preys on weak passwords then uses a massive arsenal of malware to overtake Windows and Linux servers running popular CMS, publishing, and hosting tools. By breaking up the attempts among multiple machines, the attacker can avoid limits on the number of login attempts.
Reports emerged earlier this week that the Minneapolis police department had been breached by hacktivist group Anonymous. Security expert Troy Hunt debunked the reports, however.