Security News > 2020 > October
Tokyo's Stock Exchange went offline for most of Thursday, its longest-ever outage and a very unwelcome one as it is the world's third-largest bourse, when measured by market capitalisation. The exchange yesterday morning posted news that "a technical glitch occurred to distribution of market data," and the market therefore stopped all trading.
Twilio announced a major expansion of the company's IoT offerings with the launch of Microvisor, an IoT connectivity and device management platform that offers embedded developers a one stop shop for building connected devices, keeping them secure, and managing them through their lifetime. Twilio aims to significantly accelerate IoT adoption by providing as much critical but common infrastructure as possible, so that IoT teams can focus on delivering unique value to businesses and consumers.
Anyscale announced Ray 1.0, the latest version of the Ray open source project. Ray 1.0, which provides a universal serverless compute API and an expanded ecosystem of libraries, was shared with attendees at the first annual Ray Summit, along with the announcement of the private beta of Anyscale's managed Ray platform.
The Zigbee Alliance announced its newly launched Europe Interest Group. Comprised of volunteer members with a shared focus on topics relating to Alliance technologies and the European market - including the Connected Home over IP project - the new Interest Group is designed to facilitate conversations and collaboration among members to strengthen Zigbee Alliance standards globally.
This means that Azure customers will be able to implement Datadog as a monitoring solution for their cloud workloads through new streamlined workflows that cover everything from procurement to configuration. The improved onboarding experience makes Datadog setup automatic, so new users can start monitoring the health and performance of their applications with Datadog quickly, whether they are based entirely in Azure or spread across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
LogicGate announces the promotion of Kevin Jacobson from chief financial officer to chief operating officer. Jacobson joined the company as CFO in 2018 and will be expanding upon his current CFO responsibilities to oversee the newly formed Global Customer Organization.
In an effort to make IT pros' jobs easier, Jack Wallen offers cybersecurity tips to end users-in particular, what not to do to keep company networks, equipment, and data secure. Part of the reason for this is because you're always fighting an uphill battle named end users.
On Thursday, hundreds of U.S. organizations were targeted by an Emotet spear-phishing campaign, which sent thousands of emails purporting to be from the Democratic National Committee and recruiting potential Democratic volunteers. Emotet has historically utilized a variety of lure themes leveraging current events - from COVID-19 to Greta Thunberg.
Blackbaud, the cloud CRM provider whose execs bought off ransomware crooks in exchange for a pinky promise that stolen data would not be misused, has now confessed that customers' bank account information may have been taken from its servers by the criminals. In a US stock market 8-K filing [PDF], Blackbaud admitted the ransomware infection in May potentially resulted in miscreants making off with banking details.
My company, MobileIron, wanted to better understand current QR code trends, so in September we conducted a survey of more than 2,100 consumers across the U.S. and the U.K. It confirmed that QR codes are indeed more widely used today. It's why, if mobile employees are using their personal devices to access business apps and scan potentially risky QR codes, enterprise IT should start taking a much closer look at their mobile security approach.