Security News > 2020
Globe Telecom has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of US-based Cloud Consulting Companies, Cascadeo Corporation and Cascadeo Partners for US $4M. Globe shall incorporate new entities through which the acquisition will be made. "The joint venture with Cascadeo will further strengthen our ability to invent, innovate, and experiment," said Globe President and CEO, Ernest Cu. "We will be leveraging on Cascadeo's Cloud-Native Consulting and Managed Services capabilities to further solidify our credibility as a cloud solutions provider for enterprises and small and medium business customers who are ready to digitally transform."
MobileIron, the company that introduced the industry's first mobile-centric, zero trust platform for the enterprise, announced that it has entered into a cooperation agreement with Altai Capital Management, which owns approximately 7% of MobileIron's outstanding shares. "Having been a long-term investor in MobileIron for many years, Rishi knows the business well and we are confident that he will bring a valuable and distinct perspective to our Board," said Simon Biddiscombe, CEO and Board member, MobileIron.
BioCatch, the global leader in behavioral biometrics, announced it has completed a $145 million Series C investment led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, the growth investing business of Bain Capital. The investment will accelerate BioCatch's rapid growth, broaden its product offerings and further support its expanding client base into new verticals.
Virtru, the new standard in data protection, announced the appointment of Google's former Head of Cloud ISV Partnerships, Renaud Perrier, as Senior Vice President of International Business Development and Operations. Based in Paris, Perrier is charged with directing Virtru's operations, product strategy, and technology partnerships in EMEA and APAC to help the company further expand into key international markets.
What type of data is trending on the dark web?Fraud guides accounted for nearly half of the data being sold on the dark web, followed by personal data at 15.6%, according to Terbium Labs. Will Zoom manage to retain security-conscious customers?While Zoom Video Communications is trying to change the public's rightful perception that, at least until a few weeks ago, Zoom security and privacy were low on their list of priorities, some users are already abandoning the ship.
France is a next-door neighbor spanning about the same latitudes as Germany, also has an excellent health care system, and in my estimation has a not very different distribution of skin pigmentation but France has about six times as many deaths per unit of population. A friend who has a wife of South Anerican descent who can speak English, French, German, Italian Portuguese, Spanish as a "natural speaker" found the two years she spent in Germany doing translation for the Government very disquieting, not only were neo-nazi entities prevelent, she found her self being stared at with hostility pretty much where ever she went For her even though she has no love for the Turks, she realised that with those in Germany being burned out of their homes it would not be long befor she made it onto somebodies target list As she said herself at the time Germany is no place for a brown face, so don't get a suntan".
The Department of Homeland Security is urging companies that use Pulse Secure VPNs to change their passwords for Active Directory accounts, after several cyberattacks targeted companies who had previously patched a related flaw in the VPN. DHS warns that the Pulse Secure VPN patches may have come too late. "CISA strongly urges organizations that have not yet done so to upgrade their Pulse Secure VPN to the corresponding patches for CVE-2019-11510," according to CISA's alert.
Researchers identified the attack last month, and earlier this week Linksys hit reset on users of its Linksys Smart Wi-Fi application to mitigate against future and past attacks. Linksys representatives told Threatpost that customers are being notified gradually and that all customers should be made aware of the incident and forced password reset "Over the next week or so".
Google just issued a Chrome update with a note that says, "This update includes 1 [critical] security fix." The bug itself is still a secret, even though the Chromium core of the Chrome browser is an open source project.
A threat actor that has been spotted targeting Azerbaijan has shown an interest in the energy sector, specifically SCADA systems related to wind turbines, Cisco's Talos threat intelligence and research group reports. According to Talos, the hackers appear to be interested in the energy sector and industrial control systems.