Security News > 2020
Very Good Security, a leader in modern data security and custodianship, announced that it has received a strategic investment from Visa to expand access to VGS' infrastructure-as-a-service for financial technology companies and large enterprises. Visa joins other notable investors, including Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Vertex Ventures US, and Max Levchin, in advancing VGS' mission to provide a better approach to data security, privacy and compliance.
SpecFlow will continue to remain a free, open source offering for the software development and testing communities. The acquisition of SpecFlow adds best-in-class support for BDD and.
VIVOTEK, the global leading IP surveillance solution provider, and CyberLink, a pioneer of AI and facial recognition technologies, announced they have entered into a strategic partnership, which will integrate CyberLink's FaceMe AI facial recognition engine into VIVOTEK's IP surveillance solutions. "Founded in 2000, VIVOTEK has been dedicated to the IP surveillance industry for 20 years. Entering the era of AIoT, we will continue global partnerships to accelerate and enhance video applications by joining forces with industry-leading analytic software providers."
White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation verifying the humanity of more than 1 trillion digital interactions per week, announced the appointment of Rhushabh 'Rush' Mehta, former Head of Foundational Technology at Audible, an Amazon Company, to White Ops Sr. Vice President of Engineering. In his new role, Rush will lead White Ops' development efforts to further accelerate the innovation of the White Ops Bot Mitigation platform and associated products including White Ops Advertising Integrity and Marketing Integrity, to protect the world's largest enterprises, internet platforms, demand-side platforms, supply-side platforms, publishers, and brands from sophisticated bot attacks.
Code42, the leader in insider threat detection and response, announced the appointment of Kathy Crusco to its board of directors. An enterprise software veteran, she currently serves on the board of directors at QAD, Poly, and Calix, and most recently served as chief financial officer at Kony, a cloud-based digital banking application and low-code platform solutions company.
Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. Within hours of the NSA going public with details about its prized bug find, exploit writers posted working code demonstrating how the flaw can be abused to trick unpatched Windows computers into accepting fake digital certificates - which are used to verify the legitimacy of software, and encrypt web connections.
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for critical flaws impacting the Cisco Data Center Network Manager tool for managing network platforms and switches. The three critical vulnerabilities in question impact DCNM, a platform for managing Cisco data centers that run Cisco's NX-OS - the network operating system used by Cisco's Nexus-series Ethernet switches and MDS-series Fibre Channel storage area network switches.
Google has extended its Advanced Protection Program for account security to the iPhone platform, aimed at those that are the most-targeted by cybercriminals: Members of political campaign teams, journalists, activists, executives, employees in regulated industries such as finance or government, and others. These can either be a physical security key or a smartphone's built-in security key.
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A day after the U.S. National Security Agency disclosed a vulnerability that could affect the cryptographic operations in some versions of Microsoft Windows, security researchers started releasing "Proof of concept" code to show how attackers potentially could exploit the flaw. The vulnerability affects versions of Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2016 and 2019.