Security News > 2020
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran struck back at the United States for the killing of a top Iranian general early Wednesday, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops in a major escalation that brought the two longtime foes closer to war. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned the U.S. and its regional allies against retaliating over the missile attack against the Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq's western Anbar province.
Airgain, a leading provider of advanced antenna technologies used to enable high performance wireless networking across a broad range of devices and markets, including consumer, enterprise, and automotive, announced the launch of its 5G mmWave beamforming antenna. The beamforming antenna supports 5G FR2 bands from 24 GHz to 40 GHz and is scalable for rays in up to 64 elements.
BigID, the leader in privacy-oriented data discovery, intelligence and automation announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding from Tiger Global less than four months after previously raising a $50M Series C. The new capital will be used to deliver new products in privacy and protection of personal data along with expansion of go-to-market strategies across the globe. With $144 million raised in less than two years, BigID has established itself as a leader in privacy-centric data discovery and intelligence to help enterprises automate privacy compliance activities like data access rights, data sharing management, and consent governance.
Behavioral-biometrics company TypingDNA announces that it raised a $7 million Series A round led by Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund. TypingDNA has developed proprietary artificial intelligence algorithms to authenticate users based on how they type.
Absolute, the leader in endpoint resilience, announced Dianne Lapierre has joined Absolute as Chief Information Officer. Ms. Lapierre will report directly to Absolute CEO, Christy Wyatt, and will be based in Vancouver, B.C. Ms. Lapierre will be responsible for driving IT solutions and services that enhance and support Absolute's overall business strategy, and translating business objectives into innovative technology advancements.
Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced that Danny Allan has been appointed Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Strategy. Allan, promoted from his previous role as Vice President of Product Strategy, will lead Veeam's global product strategy group and initiatives, and spearhead the company's technology vision as the #1 provider for Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management.
Avenu Insights & Analytics, the leading provider in State and Local government solutions, announced the appointment of Lara M. Oerter as Chief Operating Officer. Lara will have responsibility for company-wide operations, including product development and solution delivery.
Hackers are taking advantage of unpatched enterprise VPN setups specifically, a long-known bug in Pulse Secure's code to spread ransomware and other nasties. British infosec specialist Kevin Beaumont says a severe hole in Pulse Secure's Zero Trust Remote Access VPN software is being used by miscreants as the entry point for inserting malware attacks.
Accenture plans to buy the former Symantec Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom for an undisclosed sum, the two companies announced Tuesday. While the Accenture Security unit will pick up the Symatec services business, Broadcom will retain Symantec's security software division.
First, while the most recent versions of this stealthy phish targeted corporate users of Microsoft's Office 365 service, the same approach could be leveraged to ensnare users of many other cloud providers. In early December, security experts at PhishLabs detailed a sophisticated phishing scheme targeting Office 365 users that used a malicious link which took people who clicked to an official Office 365 login page - login.