Security News > 2020 > August

Solar Security has announced the release of a new version of its app security analyzer, Solar appScreener 3.6, which supports Pascal and features improved integration with GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket code version management and storage systems. To meet international customers' needs, the new version of our app vulnerability and undocumented feature analyzer, Solar appScreener 3.6, now supports Pascal.

SS8 Networks announced that it has expanded its Intellego XT product to include scalable real-time metadata analysis, advanced metadata queries, that significantly increase data processing volumes and higher processing speeds. Used by law enforcement agencies, the "MetaHub" component of Intellego XT's Monitoring Center, ingests and analyzes metadata from a variety of sources for investigative purposes.

Enterprises can now reduce cyber risk and secure their digital transformation initiatives in new markets including Blockchain, Cloud, DevOps, IoT and Code Signing as Thales unveils an expansion of its data protection ecosystem to more than 300 technology partners. Through these expanded technology integrations, which now include more than 500 IT products and services, Thales is enabling more organisations to integrate its data encryption, hardware security modules, key management and access management technologies with their existing IT infrastructure and cloud services to protect applications, data and identities.

iProov announced its partnership with self-sovereign identity specialists, Evernym. Evernym is the market leader in SSI, working with over 100 organizations in the technology, government, nonprofit, finance, insurance, communications, and healthcare sectors to issue, accept and verify portable digital identity credentials.

Social media apps put corporate networks at risk and provide raw material for deep fakes. Based on data from data from November 2019 to April 2020, 39% of abandoned apps with live installs were in the productivity category, and 30% were in games and entertainment.

Most IT leaders say their priorities have shifted since the coronavirus pandemic surfaced around the start of the year, says Hitachi ID.

The official Call for Presentations (speakers) for SecurityWeek’s 2020 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, being held October 19 – 22, 2020 in SecurityWeek’s Virtual...

The breach compromised 28,000 records, exposing such data as names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses. On Aug. 6, security training firm SANS Institute discovered a data breach of approximately 28,000 records as the result of one successful phishing attack against a single employee.

The Israeli defence ministry said on Wednesday that it had foiled an attempted cyber attack by a foreign group targeting the country's defence manufacturers. The United States has linked Lazarus to North Korea's regime, but the Israeli statement did not identify the foreign country concerned, nor did it say when the attempted attack took place or which firms it targeted.

SecurityWeek will host its 2020 Cloud Security Summit virtual event on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Through a fully immersive virtual environment, attendees will be able to interact with leading solution providers and other end users tasked with securing various cloud environments and services.