Security News > 2020
Omnitracs, the global pioneer of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, announced an event dedicated to supporting the mission of Truckers Against Trafficking, a non-profit organization that educates, equips and empowers truck drivers to recognize and report instances of human trafficking. Created by Advocates for Women in Technology, the Omnitracs women's employee resource community, and in partnership with TAT, the goal of Human Trafficking Awareness Day is to raise awareness in the community, educate attendees on how to look for and properly report suspected human trafficking activities, and inspire them to become involved in the fight.
Mike Convertino, the former CISO of Twitter, Crowdstrike and F5 Networks as well as CTO of the Security Product Group at F5, has joined Arceo as Chief Security Officer and he is on a mission. Collectively, the global cyber security market is expected to reach approximately $150 billion in 2020 - but hacks and breaches continue unabated and CISO's are unfairly treated in the process.
O'Reilly, the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and business, and Formulatedby announced a new conference focused on how machine learning is transforming the future of urban communities and mobility industries around the world. Rapid technological advancements are challenging cities and the mobility industry with new business models, methodologies in development and manufacturing, unprecedented levels of automation, and the need for new infrastructure.
SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, announced the appointment of Daniel Kollberg as Vice President EMEA. The appointment supports SentinelOne's record growth across the globe on the journey of becoming the next great cybersecurity company, through helping organizations use AI to defend against every attack at every stage. Daniel Kollberg will play an integral role in further growing and scaling the company's growth across EMEA. Daniel brings over 25 years of leadership experience in cybersecurity and IT solutions to SentinelOne.
"As a consumer, it can be hard to avoid massive data breaches and hacking attempts against corporations holding your personal information," Security.org said in its survey report. "2018 was the second-most active year for data breaches globally, yet many Americans could be making it worse by not properly protecting their bank account information. As we found, many people didn't change their passwords regularly, and many reused the same passwords for a variety of accounts. Even among people who had been exposed to data breaches, many exhibited risky behavior regarding public Wi-Fi networks and storing their credit card information on their devices."
A high-severity vulnerability exists in a popular WordPress plugin, potentially opening up 200,000 websites to takeover. The WordPress plugin in question in Code Snippets, which allows users to run small chunks of PHP code on their websites.
As the wait continues for federal regulators to issue final rules for health IT interoperability and information blocking prevention, some industry stakeholders are raising serious concerns about the privacy of patient data accessed and shared using application programming interfaces and mobile consumer apps. While some skeptics suspect that some of the concerns expressed by Epic could be driven, in part, by competitive fears involving providing consumer app vendors access to patient health records, others say Epic's privacy worries are also legitimate.
Two bills approved this week by the House Homeland Security Committee were drafted to improve the leadership and legal authority of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Referred to as the CISA Director Reform Act, the first of the bills would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 so that the Director of CISA shall serve a term of five years.
Given the tech industry's poor track record of protecting users data and controlling its environmental impact, regulators around the globe are stepping into the void. The policy issues run the gamut from spectrum sharing to data and privacy to the greening of the telecom industry as a whole.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a report detailing cybersecurity and operational resiliency practices that market participants have adopted.