Security News > 2020 > December
Clop ransomware is claiming to have stolen 2 million credit cards from E-Land Retail over a one-year period ending with last months ransomware attack. In an interview with BleepingComputer, the CLOP ransomware operators claimed to have breached E-Land over a year ago and have been quietly stealing credit cards using POS malware installed on the network.
Amazon Web Services announced three new analytics capabilities that dramatically improve the performance of Amazon Redshift data warehouses, make it significantly easier for customers to move and combine data across data stores, and make it much simpler for end-users to get more value from their business data using machine learning. AWS customers use a wide variety of analytics tools for different use cases, including Amazon Athena for serverless querying, Amazon Elasticsearch Service for searching and visualizing log data, Amazon Kinesis for processing real-time data streams, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and Amazon EMR for running Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other big data frameworks.
Salesforce announced Salesforce Hyperforce, a reimagination of the company's platform architecture built to securely and reliably deliver the Salesforce Customer 360, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Industries and more, on major public clouds. Salesforce is the world's #1 CRM, providing hundreds of thousands of global companies with a single source of truth that connects customer data across systems, apps and devices to help them sell, service, market and conduct commerce, from anywhere.
Amazon Web Services announced five new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances, two new AWS Outposts form factors, and three new AWS Local Zones locations that extend its lead in offering the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute offerings in the cloud. AWS already has more compute instance types than any other cloud provider, with instances based on the fastest processors from Intel, cost-optimized instances with AMD processors, the most powerful GPU instances from NVIDIA, instances that feature up to 400 Gbps networking performance, and the only Arm-based instances in the cloud offering customers 40% better price performance with AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors.
PagerDuty is one of four Amazon DevOpsGuru Launch Partners, further extending its longstanding relationship with AWS. Through this new integration, PagerDuty will automatically ingest observability data from Amazon DevOps Guru. PagerDuty consolidates these digital health signals and alerts, and uses AIOps to contextualize and filter out the noise so teams can remediate issues in real-time, and customers can ensure critical business services get delivered.
DFLabs announces that starting from Q1/2021, its IncMan SOAR solution will be available both on-premise and as a cloud package. Both solutions offer access to the same IncMan SOAR capabilities, with DFLabs' novel IncMan SOAR SaaS Cloud solution providing extra scalability to customers and access to automation and orchestration for small and medium enterprises, as well as MSSPs.
FireMon announced an integration with Zscaler Internet Access to simplify enterprise adoption of Secure Access Service Edge architectures. As enterprises move to the cloud, they are adopting hybrid network security architectures that incorporate cloud-first technologies like SASE to improve flexibility, performance, and agility.
By bringing MobileIron and Pulse Secure into the Ivanti portfolio, it will expand its capabilities to include even more devices, embed greater security protocols across infrastructures, and allow organizations to proactively and autonomously self-heal, self-secure, and self-service devices. This business combination further solidifies Ivanti as a global market leader in UEM, Zero Trust Security, and IT Service Management, and positions it to deliver intelligent and secure experiences across remote infrastructure, devices, and people in what is called the "Everywhere enterprise."
Exabeam announced the appointment of technology industry veteran and former Splunk marketing leader Sherry Lowe to chief marketing officer. Lowe will be responsible for leading the global marketing strategy and will report directly to Ralph Pisani, president, Exabeam.
Mastercard announced the appointment of Richard Verma as Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs where he will oversee the company's public policy, regulatory affairs and litigation teams around the world, reporting to Tim Murphy, General Counsel, Mastercard. Verma brings over 25 years of international experience across senior levels of business, law, diplomacy, and the military.