Security News > 2020 > October

Confluera 2.0: Enhanced autonomous detection and response capabilities to protect cloud infrastructure
2020-10-27 01:30

Confluera announced Confluera 2.0 which includes new features and capabilities that will address evolving customer needs as they battle cyberattack amid the current volatile security environment. Confluera XDR delivers a purpose-built cloud workload detection and response solution with the unique ability to deterministically track threats progressing through the environment.

Phone scamming – friends don’t let friends get vished!
2020-10-27 01:25

We last wrote about vishing back in September 2020, when we and other Naked Security readers in the UK began receiving a burst of automated, unwanted voice calls that were clearly designed to get our attention whether we answered them live or listened to them later via voicemail. The call centre crooks criminals only ever deal with people who are already frightened enough to call back, making their scamming process more efficient.

HackerOne introduces integrations and partnerships to connect and defend customers
2020-10-27 01:00

HackerOne introduced a set of strategic integrations and partnerships that make it easy to integrate HackerOne data with existing security and development workflows. Announced at the fourth annual Security conference, the integrations seek to ensure the HackerOne platform fits into customers' existing security workflow with minimal friction, enabling them to identify, prioritize, and respond to threats in real time.

Dropbox qualifies Western Digital Ultrastar 20TB SMR HDD to meet growing cloud storage demands
2020-10-27 00:30

With Western Digital SMR HDDs serving as the storage foundation for its custom-built, multi-exabyte storage platforms, Dropbox continues its strategic path, taking advantage of the highest storage densities with the lowest TCO without sacrificing data durability and availability for its 600 million+ online customers. "We've been working with Western Digital for many years, and throughout several phases of our storage platform development," said Andrew Fong, vice president of engineering, Dropbox.

Deeptree selects Stellar Cyber to deliver intelligent next generation SOC
2020-10-27 00:15

Stellar Cyber announced that Deeptree has selected the Stellar Cyber platform as the basis of its intelligent next generation SOC. Through this partnership, Deeptree can bring tailored, enterprise-class cybersecurity services to customers of all sizes. The Stellar Cyber platform goes beyond other SOC solutions in that it tightly integrates native capabilities, such as network detection response, cloud detection response and SIEM, while also analyzing data from existing third-party solutions to provide the most comprehensive security protection throughout the kill chain.

Protegrity supports Amazon Redshift to provide advanced data protection
2020-10-27 00:00

Building on Amazon Redshift's comprehensive, built-in security capabilities available to customers at no extra cost, Protegrity protects the privacy of individuals by anonymizing data before it reaches Amazon Redshift. The combination of Protegrity and Amazon Redshift allows businesses to unlock the full business value of sensitive data while enforcing even the most stringent industry and regulatory data policies.

Google Mending Another Crack in Widevine
2020-10-26 23:54

For the second time in as many years, Google is working to fix a weakness in its Widevine digital rights management technology used by online streaming sites like Disney, Hulu and Netflix to prevent their content from being pirated. The latest cracks in Widevine concern the encryption technology's protection for L3 streams, which is used for low-quality video and audio streams only.

Microsoft IE Browser Death March Hastens
2020-10-26 22:26

On Monday, Microsoft hastened its IE-to-Edge browser-transition strategy and announced new controls for users and IT staff when it comes to how the lame-duck browser will handle a growing list of websites incompatible with IE. Those include YouTube, Twitter, Yahoo Mail and 1,153 other leading internet destinations. As a point of reference, the Microsoft Edge web browser comes built into Windows 10.

PE Firm to Acquire Forcepoint From Raytheon
2020-10-26 21:04

Private equity firm Francisco Partners will acquire cybersecurity solutions firm Forcepoint from Raytheon Technologies, the companies announced Monday. With thousands of customers across more than 150 countries, Forcepoint offers a portfolio of products and services to help enterprises monitor and lock down their networks, endpoints and data.

Google employees personal info exposed in law firm data breach
2020-10-26 19:34

Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP has disclosed a data breach that exposed current and former Google employees' personal information. Fragomen is one of the USA's largest law firms covering immigration law, with over 582 attorneys in 47 locations worldwide.