Security News > 2020

Perfect Sense, which leverages its Brightspot publishing platform to drive innovations in web and mobile development, launched Gyro - a powerful cloud management tool that mitigates the risks associated with manually provisioning and managing infrastructure, lack of standards in configurations, and unpredictable results from changes to cloud infrastructure. Gyro dramatically improves DevOps productivity by allowing users to manage and maintain infrastructure using its simple, logic-ready configuration language, built for the cloud.

Neustar, a global information services company and leader in identity resolution, announced the release of UltraThreat Feeds, a new service that provides its enterprise customers with access to real-time threat data to help them better identify cyber threats as they evolve. Designed by Neustar's renowned security experts and leading academic researchers, the service - unique to Neustar - enables security and threat intelligence teams of all sizes to access threat feeds based on analysis and observations curated from Neustar's expansive DNS, OneID and IP decisioning data.

Paysafe, a leading specialized payments platform, has expanded its omni-channel payments offering through the launch of the Cloud SDK from Handpoint, a pioneer in defining integrated payments. Complementing the existing Handpoint APIs and SDKs used by Paysafe clients with Android, iOS, and desktop apps, the Cloud SDK allows independent software vendors with cloud-based platforms to provide businesses with enhanced in-person payments.

Temenos Infinity is the first core-agnostic product to give banks the ability to continuously transform at scale, creating AI-driven customer experiences. As the first to deliver a packaged, API-driven, digital front-office capability allowing banks to create hyper-personalized experiences while building on cloud-native, cloud-agnostic microservices, Temenos uniquely enables continuous renovation at scale of sales, servicing and marketing capabilities for the largest banks worldwide, requiring an architecture that abstracts the underlying complexity from delivery of personalized service across channels, to small banks wanting to differentiate through innovation and services, Temenos Infinity delivers agility and extensibility to both through its new microservice distribution.

ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, announced that Applications Manager, its server, cloud, and application performance monitoring solution, now supports Oracle Autonomous Database. Oracle Autonomous Database has gained notable traction since its arrival last year, owing to its agility and support for even the most demanding applications.

Entisys360, an award-winning IT consultancy specializing in the deployment and delivery of advanced IT infrastructure, virtualization, security, automation and cloud first solutions, announced that is has purchased Performance Technology Partner's cybersecurity technology and support solutions assets. Inclusive of security and compliance assessments, as well as staff augmentation services delivered by a highly-skilled team offering decades of collective experience in cybersecurity, the PTP technology and services offering being purchased by Entisys360 will help the company establish itself as one of the West Coast's leading providers of cybersecurity services.

A pair of widely used WordPress plugins need to be patched on more than 320,000 websites to close down vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain admin control of the web publishing software. The team at WebArx, a security firm specializing in WordPress and other CRM and publishing platforms, took credit for discovering and reporting the flaws in WP Time Capsule and InfiniteWP. Both plugins were patched earlier this month by the developer, and updates should be applied.

Samsung announced the completion of an agreement to acquire TeleWorld Solutions, a network services provider headquartered in Chantilly, VA. TWS provides network design, testing and optimization services to mobile service and cable operators, equipment OEMs and other companies across the U.S. With network builds associated with 5G and 4G LTE enhancements advancing in the U.S, the acquisition will address the need for end-to-end support in delivering network solutions. The TWS leadership team will continue to manage the business and, together with Samsung, address the network upgrade cycle occurring in the U.S. "The acquisition of TWS will enable us to meet mobile carriers' growing needs for improving their 4G and 5G networks, and eventually create new opportunities to enhance our service capabilities to our customers," said Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, Executive Vice President and Head of Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.

NortonLifeLock, a global leader in consumer cyber safety, announced LexisNexis Risk Solutions, part of RELX, has entered into an agreement to acquire ID Analytics, a trusted provider of credit and fraud risk solutions for enterprises, for a purchase price of $375 million. ID Analytics provides credit and fraud risk solutions for enterprises with patented analytics and has proven expertise and near real-time insight into consumer behavior.

The CPU ties for Oracle's previous all-time high for number of patches issued, in July 2019, which overtook its previous record of 308 in July 2017. The updates include fixes for Oracle's most widely deployed products, including the Oracle Database Server; Oracle Enterprise Manager; Oracle Fusion Middleware; 19 new security patches for Oracle MySQL; and the Oracle E-Business Suite.