Security News > 2020 > July

Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The Saturday, July 18 update admits "The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter's internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections."

The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals from the Republic of Cyprus-one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known connections to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Both suspects-Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, and Ghassan Diab, 37, a citizen of Lebanon-were arrested earlier last year and extradited to the United States last weekend.

The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals from the Republic of Cyprus-one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known connections to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Both suspects-Joshua Polloso Epifaniou, 21, a resident of Nicosia, and Ghassan Diab, 37, a citizen of Lebanon-were arrested earlier last year and extradited to the United States last weekend.

"This data gave us valuable insights on the complex relationship employees have with technology as work and personal are becoming more intertwined with the increase in working from home," commented Dilip Bhatia, Vice President of Global User and Customer Experience at Lenovo. "Respondents globally feel more reliant on their work computers and more productive but have concerns about data security and want their companies to invest in more tech training. We're using these takeaways to improve the development of our smart technology and better empower remote workers of tomorrow."

LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced the results of its annual focus group, comprised of over 20 healthcare IT executives that are members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. While the focus group came together before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the technology priorities for 2020 - from data sharing and security to using data analytics to help vulnerable populations - have become more urgent in light of the pandemic challenges.

Additional results revealed business leaders are confident in their company's business continuity during COVID-19 due to managed cloud services. 48 percent of businesses have adopted cloud solutions to provide end-customers with critical services.

Many businesses are at risk from bot attacks, despite an awareness of the problem and a widely held belief that they have the problem under control, Netacea reveals. It found a high awareness of how bot attacks could negatively affect a business, with over 70% understanding the most common attacks, including credential stuffing and card cracking, and 76% stating they have been attacked by bots.

Accertify announced the launch of a new solution designed to help organizations address the significant rise in fraudulent online account openings and account takeovers. Fraudulent account openings, using stolen or fake names and information to open an account, and account takeovers, defined as unauthorized access to accounts, are two types of identity theft that are concerningly on the rise.

Barracuda announced a new secure SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure. The new Barracuda CloudGen WAN service is the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs.

Borne from the company's acquisition of SovLabs, OneFuse helps enterprise IT drive deeper, more feature-rich integrations for platforms including VMware vRealize Automation and HashiCorp Terraform-without the high cost and complexity of custom coding-while improving governance and security posture from policy-based centralization. "These problems will only intensify as enterprises invest in tools like vRealize Automation, Terraform, and Kubernetes. That's where OneFuse comes in. OneFuse helps those tools deliver on the promise of automation-quickly, securely, and cost-effectively-while allowing IT to pursue a best-of-breed tools approach for hybrid cloud."