Security News > 2020 > December
Students in Baltimore, Maryland, were on Sunday warned against connecting their Windows PCs to the county's public school IT system after it was hit by ransomware. Baltimore County Public Schools has revealed few details about the malware infection, and only confirmed it was a "Victim of a [ransomware] attack that caused systemic interruption to network information systems."
To empower its customers in the fight against financial crime, Computer Services has partnered with Featurespace to launch a holistic anti-money laundering solution: WatchDOG AML. WatchDOG AML protects against financial crime by identifying suspicious activity in real-time with an enterprise transaction monitoring system. Using customizable machine learning models that utilize Featurespace's award-winning Adaptive Behavioral Analytics, WatchDOG AML reduces false positives while predicting and adapting to new threats through anomaly detection.
Dynatrace announced its expanded partnership with SAP will help prepare the world's leading retailers for a successful Cyber Monday and beyond. "As a part of our digital transformation efforts, we needed to migrate our e-commerce to a more advanced platform. This required digital experience monitoring to understand precisely which improvements to prioritize and ensure everything performs as expected," said Christoferson Chua, B2B E-Commerce Lead Developer, at ASICS. "The combined power of Dynatrace digital experience monitoring and SAP Commerce Cloud helps us understand and pinpoint bottlenecks across our e-commerce integrations, enabling our teams to proactively drive innovation and optimizations to achieve a fast and responsive storefront. Ultimately, this allows us to strengthen our relationships with customers and partners, as well as our brand value."
The Internet Society and the Internet Engineering Task Force announced a new long term strategic agreement that will ensure the continuity of the IETF's critical work in creating open standards that make the Internet work better. The Internet Society provided the organisational home for the IETF until 2018 when the IETF Administration LLC was formed to support its ongoing operations.
A nation-state actor known for its cyber espionage campaigns since 2012 is now using coin miner techniques to stay under the radar and establish persistence on victim systems, according to new research. Attributing the shift to a threat actor tracked as Bismuth, Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team said the group deployed Monero coin miners in attacks that targeted both the private sector and government institutions in France and Vietnam between July and August earlier this year.
Fuze announced that it has been awarded a new patent for processing and analyzing heterogeneous streams of communications data across multiple users and mediums, in real time. The invention enables the Fuze platform to quickly and effectively analyze all voice, meeting, messaging, and email communication data and produce a single, complete view of user activity across organizations, departments, or individual users.
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