Security News > 2020
Data-security and privacy pioneer Dathena announced the appointment of veteran software engineer Lylian Kieffer as its new Chief Technology Officer. Kieffer will lead Dathena's engineering department, overseeing development and technical operations as the deep-tech leader expands its global offerings and uses innovative AI tools to offer global enterprises best-in-class data privacy and protection.
US lawmakers have passed legislation offering $1 billion to help telecom carriers "Rip and replace" equipment from Chinese tech firms Huawei and ZTE amid national security concerns. To allay concerns over the impact for small telecom carriers, the bill provides funds to subsidize the removal of equipment "That poses a national security risk" for firms with fewer than two million customers, according to the text.
Healthcare industry at greatest risk of data breachThe healthcare industry has significantly more exposed attack surfaces than any other industry surveyed, according to Censys's research findings of cloud risks and cloud maturity by industry, revealed at RSA Conference 2020. Attackers probing for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers, is yours one of them?CVE-2020-0688, a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Exchange Server that has been squashed by Microsoft in early February, is ripe for exploitation and could become a vector for ransomware groups in coming months, warns cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont.
SECURITI.ai was selected winner of the fifteenth-annual RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest and named "Most Innovative Startup" by a panel of leading venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry veterans. Its PRIVACI.ai solution automates privacy compliance with patent-pending People Data Graphs and robotic automation.
What can you learn from analyzing more than 2 billion phone calls per year? Everything you need to measure to detect fraud and authenticate genuine users. Preventing call center fraud is the most common use case for the platform, but Balasubramaniyan also sees a growing need for voice authentication, spanning everything from home automation systems to corporate fraud.
It's 3% of our global GDP. So, in essence, the coronavirus just does a couple of things for how we react as human beings to a crisis. So you just need to think about the awareness of your employees of these types of things and that in a situation like this, they are very likely to click information about what's really going on with the company, with the external world around you and get information about the coronavirus, that malicious actors use to basically penetrate your network or defraud you of your money.
Karen Roby interviewed a cybersecurity expert about a different threat than COVID-19 brings.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don't go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.
Most have to live within easy traveling distance of where they work, industrial work one way or another be it from the actual processes or the vehicles people use to travel to work create innordinate amounts of polution that we now know micro particulates get down into the lower lungs where they lodge, making people more susceptable to respiritory or cardio-pulmonary disease including hypertension and reduced oxygen carrying capacity. For most people their genetics are wired up so that sugar is effectively a drug that makes you eat more and more.
If your desktop of choice is Linux, you don't have to be without a 2FA tool, thanks to OTPClient. What about those looking for an open source GUI 2FA tool for the Linux desktop? If that's you, there's OTPClient.