Security News > 2020
Cisco is introducing new AI-powered voice intelligence capabilities to Webex Meetings to help turn talk into action. The Cisco Webex Assistant for Webex Meetings is powered by technology from the recent Voicea acquisition, turning Webex meetings into a digital treasure trove.
Cequence Security announced that its Application Security Platform with CQ botDefense is now available as a Software-as-a-Service offering hosted on Amazon Web Services. CQ botDefense SaaS has been certified as PCI DSS 3.2 Level 2 for Service Providers compliant and is in process for SOC II Level I certification.
ADVA announced that its FSP 3000 and FSP 150 platforms will play a pivotal role in the OPENQKD project. Leveraging its ConnectGuard technology, ADVA will provide optical and Ethernet encryptors as well as open line systems for multiple testbed locations.
HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, announces Björn Lidefelt has been named President and CEO. Björn joins the company after serving as Chief Commercial Officer at HID parent company ASSA ABLOY, where he oversaw branding, communications, commercial development and strategy. He also has extensive experience in international sales and marketing, having spent more than nine years in Asia Pacific markets including China and Malaysia.
Trustmark Mutual Holding Company, a national employee benefits provider, has selected Britt Lindley as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Bradley Bodell, Chief Information Officer,...
Researchers have identified a new speculative execution type attack, dubbed CacheOut, that could allow attackers to trigger data leaks from most Intel CPUs. The more serious of the two CacheOut bugs, tracked as CVE-2020-0549, is a CPU vulnerability that allows an attacker to target data stored within the OS kernel, co-resident virtual machines and even within Intel's Software Guard Extensions enclave, a trusted execution environment on Intel processors.
Intel on Monday issued a processor data leakage advisory, describing two chip architecture flaws, one of which it tried to fix twice before. Intel's microcode fix involved using the VERW instruction and the L1D FLUSH command to overwrite the store buffer value, to prevent buffer data from being read. But Intel's initial fix in May failed.
Federal prosecutors say Practice Fusion - now a unit of Allscripts - will pay $145 million to settle civil and criminal investigations related to its electronic health records system. Practice Fusion agreed to pay over $26 million in criminal fines and forfeiture, the Justice Department says.
Facebook said Tuesday a new tool allowing users of the social network to view and delete data it collects from third parties is rolling out to the estimated two billion members of the leading social network worldwide. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the tool offers "a new level of transparency and control" for the social network, which has been roiled by revelations in the past few years on how it collects and uses data.
Those two forces are, one, individual social media users and, second, the engagement algorithms used by social media platforms. Social media algorithms can be used to magnify a troll's message and promote the re-sharing of a message that appeals to a niche corner of a social media platform.