Security News > 2020
A new malware campaign has been found using coronavirus-themed lures to strike government and energy sectors in Azerbaijan with remote access trojans capable of exfiltrating sensitive documents, keystrokes, passwords, and even images from the webcam. According to the researchers, the malware specifically targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems in the energy industry, such as wind turbine systems, whose identities are currently not known.
As the results of a recent survey conducted by OnePoll reveal, work has a completely new look as employees around the world adapt to the realities or working from home. With their daily commutes reduced from hours to minutes, the majority of the 2,000 US workers who participated in the research - comprised of office workers currently working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak - are adapting their daily routines.
The Internet Security Alliance and the European Confederation of Directors' Associations released Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020, a handbook on cyber-risk management for corporate boards of directors in Europe. The new handbook, is co-branded by ISA, AIG and ecoDa, will be based on the Cyber Risk Handbooks ISA has previously developed for the US National Association of Corporate Directors.
Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge platform, the first nationwide platform for edge colocation, networking and exchange services, announced Synse 3.0, the next generation of its open source API for making environmental data actionable within the network and data center. "As thousands of geographically distributed, lights-out data centers emerge at the edge, we have no choice but to make our infrastructure and applications autonomous," said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO. "Without the IT/OT convergence enabled by Synse, you don't have enough context to properly automate edge environments. Synse 3.0 provides an open source mechanism for exposing critical environmental information that impacts servers and workloads, further empowering the autonomous edge."
Imply, the real-time intelligence company, announced Imply 3.3, featuring enhancements that help customers optimize their analytics spend and improve time to insight on their freshest data, while extending Imply's leading real-time analytics performance to a broader set of queries. The addition of JOIN operations broadens Druid's performance advantage over data warehouses and data lake query engines by leveraging Druid's architectural advantages such as advanced indexing and horizontal query distribution.
Privitar, the leading data privacy platform provider, announced that the Privitar Data Privacy Platform is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services. Privitar's availability in AWS Marketplace makes it easier for customers to start using software designed to protect sensitive data and accelerate safe data provisioning so they can increase insights, share data with more users, and accelerate time to data.
ECS, a leader in advanced technology, science, and engineering solutions, announced an expansion of its services as a Google Cloud Platform partner. Through the ECS Cloud Center of Excellence, ECS delivers solutions from leading cloud service providers to deploy mission-critical workloads to some of the largest organizations in the world.
Netcracker Technology announced the deployment of its full stack Digital BSS/OSS and Orchestration applications on Amazon Web Services. Communications Service Providers can now benefit from the high performance and on-demand scaling of Netcracker's entire operations and business solutions on AWS to deliver innovative digital services with cloud economics.
Sectigo, a leading provider of automated digital identity management and web security solutions, announced a partnership with Infineon Technologies AG to provide automated certificate provisioning for Infineon's OPTIGA Trusted Platform Module 2.0 using Sectigo IoT Identity Manager. "Including a TPM chip in an IoT device design is the first step in enabling strong authentication and secure communication for IoT devices," explained Alan Grau, VP of IoT/Embedded Solutions at Sectigo.
"Swimlane has a track record of success in the SOAR market, as well as a clearly demonstrated dedication to the cybersecurity industry as a whole," said Syncurity Founder JP Bourget. "Syncurity is thrilled to join the Swimlane team, and we look forward to continuing to provide our customers with access to innovative solutions and deep domain expertise."