Security News > 2020 > December
Skyflow announced a $17.5 million Series A to drive growth of its data privacy vault. The zero-trust data vault with an elegant API allows developers to quickly build applications and workflows without worrying about data security, privacy or compliance.
Nutanix announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Rajiv Ramaswami as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective Wednesday, December 9, 2020, and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective Monday, December 14, 2020. Ramaswami will succeed co-founder Dheeraj Pandey, who previously announced his plans to retire as CEO of Nutanix upon the appointment of a successor.
SolarWinds and its Board of Directors have named Sudhakar Ramakrishna as the company's new President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, each to become effective on January 4, 2021. "Following an extensive and thorough search, we are delighted to welcome Sudhakar Ramakrishna as SolarWinds' new CEO as we embark on an exciting new chapter in the company's history," said Bill Bock, Chairman of the Board of SolarWinds.
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The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a pair of sweeping antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused its power in the marketplace to neutralize competitors through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and depriving users of better privacy-friendly alternatives. Specifically, the lawsuits seek to rescind the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, spinning off both platforms into independent companies, prohibit Facebook from imposing anti-competitive conditions on software developers, and require the company to seek prior notice and approval for future mergers and acquisitions.
Cyware announced the addition of two new members to its leadership team, Rob Jacobs, Vice President of Finance; and Thomas Bain, Vice President of Marketing. "We are solving complex and expensive challenges for security teams as much as we're disrupting legacy approaches to security operations," said Anuj Goel, Founder and CEO, Cyware.
2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for software vulnerabilities, leaving security professionals drowning in a veritable sea of patching, reporting and looming attacks, many of which they can't even see. "Based on vulnerability data, the state of software security remains pretty dismal," Brian Martin, vice president of vulnerability intelligence with Risk Based Security, told Threatpost.
The EU Medicines Agency today revealed it was hacked, just a week after infosec eggheads said foreign state hackers have been targeting European institutions. BioNTech, the German biotech firm that is developing a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer said it was told by EMA that the miscreants had stolen from an agency computer files submitted by BioNTech and Pfizer describing their vaccine as part of the regulatory approval process.
"We identified a server used to deliver a malicious.lnk file and host multiple credential-phishing pages," wrote researchers, in a Wednesday posting. On the email front, researchers found that many malicious initial files are being used in the campaign, including a.lnk file that in turn downloads an.
The Open Source Security Foundation announced on Wednesday at the Black Hat Europe conference the availability of an open source tool designed for evaluating the ability of static analysis security testing products to detect vulnerabilities. The developers pointed out that less than 200 lines of code are typically required to create a new security tool integration, and they believe it can be easily integrated with not only open source tools, but also commercial products.