Security News > 2020 > July

To address this challenge, NICE Actimize has introduced an enhancement to its SURVEIL-X Holistic Trade Surveillance solution that provides self-service analytics, called SURVEIL-X Studio. Instead of wasting time coding, and sourcing and scrubbing data, business analysts who use SURVEIL-X Studio can focus their expertise on creating risk models to close coverage gaps and solve complex compliance challenges.

HID Global announced the expansion of its biometrics identification management solutions to police departments and military installations around the globe. "The expansion of our offering to include iOS platforms broadens the adaptability and application of our mobile biometric solutions and equips our customers - from law enforcement to military officials - with the confidence to achieve rapid identification anywhere," said Jessica Westerouen van Meeteren, VP & Managing Director, Citizen Identity with HID Global.

Mindtree announced it has been commissioned by Husqvarna Group to provide DevOps-centric SAP services to help drive the company's digital transformation initiatives. Mindtree will partner with Husqvarna Group's Gardena Division, based in Germany, which is the leading brand for high-quality garden tools in Europe.

Claroty announced Yaniv Vardi has been appointed the company's Chief Executive Officer. Vardi joins Claroty after two consecutive record-breaking quarters for the company, including both year-over-year revenue and logo growth, and expanding customer acquisition even further globally and across several new verticals.

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that Tokyo, Japan, is the home of its newest Asia-Pacific office. Cloudflare first invested in Japan nearly a decade ago, expanding its network into Tokyo in 2010, just months after launching.

The initial scam emails claim that the recipient must renew their Microsoft Office 365 subscription, says Abnormal Security. In a Friday blog post, Abnormal Security described two separate phishing campaigns, both of which impersonate actual notices from Microsoft.

Facebook's lawsuit against NSO Group over alleged spying on WhatsApp users will be allowed to go forward. WhatsApp-owner Facebook is alleging that NSO Group exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp to deploy its spyware against human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents.

Computer misuse crimes across England and Wales have declined over the past year - with credential theft attacks remaining more or less flat in the pre-COVID reporting period. The Crime Survey of England and Wales recorded a total of 876,000 incidents of computer misuse affecting 743,000 adults across the UK over the past year, a figure that was down by 9 per cent on 2019's total of 966,000 incidents.

VPNs are all the rage these days, because they're supposed to boost your privacy and stop you being tracked. Many VPNs tell you that "They don't keep any logs at all", and therefore that they would have nothing on you that they could hand over to law enforcement even if they wanted to.

Mac users are being targeted by trojanized cryptocurrency trading apps, which once downloaded actually drain victims' cryptocurrency wallets, researchers warn. The actors behind the campaign used websites that copy Kattana's legitimate website to convince unwitting cryptocurrency enthusiasts to download the fake apps.