Security News > 2020 > December
The risk of identity fraud has increased significantly with attacks occurring more frequently since the start of the pandemic, Onfido reveals. Over the past 12 months, the average identity document fraud rate increased by 41% over the previous year as first-time fraudsters appear to be more prevalent, likely due to increased economic hardships during the pandemic.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it is accelerating mainstream enterprise adoption of high performance computing by offering its HPC solutions as a service through HPE GreenLake. "The massive growth in data, along with Artificial Intelligence and high performance analytics, is driving an increased need for HPC in enterprises of all sizes, from the Fortune 500 to startups," said Peter Ungaro, senior vice president and general manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions, at HPE. "We are transforming the market by delivering industry-leading HPC solutions in simplified, pre-configured services that control costs and improve governance, scalability and agility through HPE GreenLake."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. Pompeo took aim at universities across the U.S., claiming they refused to address the Trump administration's concerns about China's attempts to influence students and academics.
Google on Wednesday confirmed it is banning location tracking software developed by data collection firm X-Mode Social from apps on Android-powered mobile devices, which dominate the global market. Vice News reported last November that X-Mode was collecting the location data of people using apps intended for Muslim audiences, particularly the dating platform Muslim Mingle.
A Russian citizen living in Denmark has been charged with espionage for allegedly having provided information about Danish energy technology, among other things, to an unnamed Russian intelligence service, the Danish prosecution authority said Wednesday. If found guilty, the Russian citizen faces up to six years in jail.
xMatters announced new adaptive incident management feature advancements that provide increased automation across each stage of the incident management lifecycle - diagnosis and collaboration, resolution and post-incident learning. Technology teams can also benefit from continuous improvement throughout the incident management lifecycle to prevent incident recurrences - leaving more time for product innovation.
Lattice Semiconductor announced the Lattice Mach-NX FPGA family, the second generation in its successful line of secure control FPGAs. Building on the capabilities of the Lattice MachXO3D family announced in 2019, Mach-NX FPGAs deliver heightened security features and the fast, power-efficient processing needed to implement a real-time Hardware Root-of-Trust on future server platforms, as well as computing, communications, industrial, and automotive systems.
CircleCI introduced new platform updates and partner integrations with Amazon Web Services, HashiCorp, and others to their expanding ecosystem. CircleCI announced a new version of their server hosting option, Server 3.0.
Group-IB announces that its Threat Intelligence & Attribution system has been found compliant with the recommendations issued by United States Department of Justice for cybersecurity and cyber intelligence companies. The independent assessment of Group-IB Threat Intelligence & Attribution technologies was carried out by one of the Big Four accounting companies and has proved Group-IB's conformity with industry recommendations for gathering cyber threat intelligence data.
With this, Checkmarx furthers its commitment to supporting the public sector by making its automated application security testing solution available to all DoD agencies in the form of a hardened container, helping them to confidently build and release secure software while meeting the strict security and compliance requirements of the U.S. military. This enables all DoD agencies and developers to easily acquire and integrate the Checkmarx solution into their DevOps environments and automatically insert security into the entire SDLC, while also avoiding lengthy ATO timelines.