Security News > 2020 > October
VMware announced it has collaborated with Samsung to further extend its leadership in 5G. Through this alliance, the companies seek to help Communication Service Providers meet the requirements of 5G networks and accelerate the roll-out of 5G by optimizing Samsung's portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN for both containerized network functions and virtualized network functions with VMware Telco Cloud Platform. With VMware Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs can deploy a cloud native, software-defined 5G network that will accelerate the delivery of services and applications across distributed telco clouds with operational consistency, integrated lifecycle management and multi-layer automation while maintaining carrier-grade performance, scalability and reliability.
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More than 100 smart-irrigation systems deployed across the globe were installed without changing the factory's default, passwordless setting, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to recent findings from Israeli security research firm Security Joes. Recently, its researchers discovered that 55 irrigation systems within Israel were visible on the open internet without password protections.
Amazon has fired an employee who shared customers' names and email addresses with a third party. Amazon did not comment on an inquiry from Threatpost asking how many customers were impacted, and what the role of the Amazon employee was.
An election security report released by Valimail exposed some significant issues with email security which could have the potential to disrupt the 2020 elections. Just 7% of the largest counties' domains are protected, an increase of just 2 percentage points from 2019.Only one of the eight election systems manufacturers certified by the US government is protected from email spoofing.
Zoom has finally added what it says is end-to-end encryption to its video conferencing service at no additional cost for all users, whether they are paying subscribers or not. "We're very proud to bring Zoom's new end-to-end encryption to Zoom users globally today," said Zoom CISO Jason Lee.
Notification of Alleged Copyright Violation Recently there have been reports citing copyright violations of your Page posts. The link on the Facebook page above looks as though it stays on facebook.com, but the URL you see in blue above isn't the URL you visit if you click it.
The Federal Trade Commission received almost 2 million complaints from Americans regarding illegal robocalls during the first nine months of 2020. "Through the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2020, the FTC received more than 2.7 million complaints about unwanted calls, including 1.9 million complaints about robocalls."
Akamai on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Asavie, an Ireland-based company that provides mobility, IoT and cybersecurity solutions. Asavie has developed a platform that helps enterprises secure their mobile and IoT devices by placing assets inside private network slices.
Microsoft says that Office 365 customers can use unlimited disposable recipient email addresses after the Plus Addressing feature rolled out to all Exchange Online users. Plus addressing allows users to create an indefinite number of custom and unique email addresses by adding suffix text strings to their standard address using a '+' delimiter.