Security News > 2020
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Emailage, a global provider of fraud prevention and risk management solutions. LexisNexis Risk Solutions already has an established commercial partnership with Emailage to offer email risk assessment to customers around the world.
NetApp announced that Deepak Ahuja, CFO of Verily, has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Ahuja's appointment brings the number of directors on the NetApp board to eight, seven of whom are independent.
Aliaswire, a leader in innovative cloud-based payments technology, announced that Jed Rice has been named CEO and been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective January 20. Rice joins the Aliaswire team as the company enters a new phase of growth and innovation.
Network Data Systems, an industry leader in IT infrastructure service solutions, is excited to announce the recent promotions of Wayne Dumas to COO and Craig Johnson to Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Wayne Dumas has been a member of the NDS team for nine years, most recently holding the position of Vice President of Service Delivery.
While the young man's punishment was heavily tempered by his current poor health, the defendant's dietary choices may have contributed to both his capture and the lenient sentencing: Investigators say the onetime booter boss's identity became clear after he ordered a bacon and chicken pizza delivered to his home using the same email address he originally used to register his criminal attack service. Investigators say Bukoski's booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012.
A non-profit community housing collective has been swindled out of more than $1.2 million in a business email compromise campaign. Red Kite Community Housing, a coop housing association in High Wycombe, U.K. announced in a recent website notice that £932,000 of the money paid into its coffers by tenant-owners was transferred to cybercrooks thanks to a convincing domain-spoofing effort.
CCTV equipment maker Xiongmai effectively built a poorly hidden, insecure backdoor into potentially millions of surveillance devices, it is claimed. A hardware probester going by the name of Vladislav Yarmak alleged this week that China-based Xiongmai - best known for its wide-open security cameras - left a remote debugging and management tool in its firmware, which is used in network-connected surveillance video recorders.
Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll Group said a ransomware attack is to blame for several key services being debilitated and delivery operations being delayed over the past week. In the aftermath of the company first being hit by the ransomware attack on Friday, customers were reporting an impact on operations across Australia, India and the Philippines.
Attempts to infect computers with ransomware and other malware over networks are decreasing, reckons infosec outfit Sonicwall. That may be because more and more attacks are tailored for individual, specific targets, rather than being spammed out, and thus not well detected by internet watchers and their honeypots.
Twitter unveiled a plan Tuesday to curb the spread of manipulated content including "Deepfake" videos as part of a move to fight misinformation which could result in violence or other harm. Twitter vice president of trust and safety Del Harvey said the new policy addresses not only deepfakes but other kinds of manipulation, sometimes described as "Shallow fakes" or "Cheapfakes."