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Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
2020-10-28 02:29

Donald Trump's presidential campaign website was briefly hacked and defaced tonight. It claimed, alongside US government seals, "This site was seized" because "The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded [sic] daily by President Donald J Trump."

Citrix expands its Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program to include zero trust solutions
2020-10-28 02:15

To help drive it, Citrix announced that it is expanding the Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program to include zero trust solutions from trusted and verified partners that will allow companies to simplify the selection of vendors and leverage their existing investments to design a modern security framework that delivers zero trust outcomes. In expanding the program to include solutions that integrate with these offerings and have zero trust principles built-in, Citrix is providing extended context and an additional layer of security that make an enterprise more secure.

Index Engines announces new release of CyberSense to help orgs tackle cyberattacks
2020-10-28 02:00

Index Engines announced the latest enhancements to its ransomware detection and recovery software, CyberSense, to help organizations win the war against cyberattacks. "Cyberattacks continue to evolve to be more aggressive and more stealth-like than ever before, so we've continued to improve CyberSense to tackle this refinement," said Jim McGann, Vice President at Index Engines.

India and USA to share high-quality satellite imagery and more under new pact
2020-10-28 01:58

The USA and India have struck a new defence pact that will see the two nations share high-quality spatial data and satellite images. Doing so means that India can, in theory, be more precise should it act in neighbouring trouble spots.

Trump Campaign Website Broken Into by Hackers
2020-10-28 01:50

Hackers briefly broke into Donald Trump's campaign website on Tuesday, just a week before Election Day, officials and reports said. "The world has had enough of the fake-news spreaded daily by president donald j trump", the message went to say, US media reported.

Aqua Security unveils Kubernetes-native security capabilities
2020-10-28 01:45

Though some security mechanisms are included by design, K8s by itself is not a security offering, and security settings aren't always enabled by default. Aqua's new Kubernetes security solution addresses the complexity and short supply of engineering expertise required to configure Kubernetes infrastructure effectively and automatically, by introducing KSPM - Kubernetes Security Posture Management - a coherent set of policies and controls to automate secure configuration and compliance.

WekaIO WekaFS: Unified storage solutions with cloud-native ecosystem partners
2020-10-28 01:30

WekaIO announced a transformative cloud-native storage solution underpinned by the world's fastest file system, WekaFS, that unifies and simplifies the data pipeline for performance-intensive workloads and accelerated DataOps. Weka has developed reference architectures with leading object storage technology providers, like Amazon Web Services, Cloudian, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Scality, and others in Weka's Technology Alliance Program, to deliver cost-efficient, cloud-native data storage solutions at any scale.

AttackIQ integrates Security Optimization Platform with Microsoft Azure Sentinel cloud-native SIEM platform
2020-10-28 01:15

AttackIQ announced its integration between the Microsoft Azure Sentinel cloud-native security information and event manager platform and the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform. "We're delighted to announce AttackIQ's integration with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, and the opportunity to enable Azure Sentinel users to test and validate their detection pipeline and ultimately fine-tune security processes across their organization," said Dariush Afshar, VP of Platform & Business Development, AttackIQ. "With our integration with Azure Sentinel, Microsoft customers now have another powerful tool for optimizing their security investments, whether that be their Microsoft 365 Defender investments like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, or third-party security products - such as nextgen firewall - that feed Azure Sentinel."

Catalogic Software adds direct offload to cloud from storage arrays to its ECX CDM solution
2020-10-28 01:00

Catalogic Software announced that it is bringing its enterprise data protection expertise to Kubernetes and cloud native applications and that the company added direct offload to cloud from storage arrays to its flagship ECX copy data management solution. The company continued its strong focus on storage vendor partnerships with HPE, IBM, NetApp and Pure Storage and has maintained its business plan and strategic initiatives for 2020 in the face of the economic and social challenges driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gigamon and Zscaler join forces to provide NDR for the distributed devices of a fluid workforce
2020-10-28 00:30

That is why Gigamon is announcing the integration of Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT and Zscaler Internet Access to provide Network Detection and Response for the distributed devices of a fluid workforce. Zscaler's visibility into all users' internet traffic, regardless of their location, enables ThreatINSIGHT's high-fidelity, behavior-based detection to protect the fluid workforce from hidden and emerging threats.