Security News > 2020
The GSMA opened applications for the Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion. The Innovation Fund aims to increase mobile internet adoption and usage among those who have mobile internet coverage but are not using it in countries in Africa and Asia.
The Shared Assessments Program issued "CCPA Privacy Guidelines & Checklists," the security and risk industry's first comprehensive set of best practices and tools to help organizations comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act. "As participants networked this past year to share ideas, best practices and pain points, the committee initiated a set of Privacy White Papers to help industry peers navigate and provide checklists to map their progress."
Stealthbits Technologies, a customer-driven cybersecurity software company focused on protecting an organization's sensitive data and the credentials attackers use to steal that data, announced the release of StealthAUDIT 10.0, their flagship platform for auditing, governance, and access management across dozens of IT and data resources. Correspondingly, there is an ever-increasing number of storage platforms and repositories available to house the data security professionals need to protect, both on-premises and in the cloud.
The US government's Computer Emergency Response Team has posted a new report on the latest exploits of North Korea's Hidden Cobra hacking crews. The updated advisory details how the hacking groups believed to operate on behalf of the isolated government, have carried out various hacking operations in recent years in an effort to drum up cash for the sanctions-hit regime.
BOE Technology Group and Qualcomm Technologies announce their plans to establish a strategic collaboration to develop innovative display products featuring Qualcomm 3D Sonic ultrasonic fingerprint sensors. This collaboration is expected to extend from mobile and associated 5G technologies to XR and IoT. BOE's expertise in interface devices and smart IoT systems combined with Qualcomm Technologies' broad product portfolio, makes this an ideal collaboration for the 5G era, in which consumers can expect extraordinary performance improvements resulting from the tight integration of both Companies' multiple key technologies, including sensors, antennae, display picture processing, etc.
Net announced a strategic partnership to deliver the power of the cloud to customers by reducing the costs and time typically associated with moving large amounts of data from legacy systems to the cloud. Net's leading software modernization technology enables Snowflake customers to more efficiently and effectively migrate new workloads to the platform, accelerating their time-to-value for utilizing the benefits of the cloud data platform.
Sysdig, the secure DevOps leader, announced the appointment of two engineering vice presidents - Saravanan "Saro" Subbiah and Omer Azaria. Saro joins Sysdig as vice president of engineering and technology, monitor & platform, while Omer is being promoted from within to vice president of engineering, secure.
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced it has promoted Keith Moran to Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas and Dave Gwyn to Worldwide Sales Chief Operating Officer, both effective May 1, 2020. The role of Senior Vice President of Sales for the Americas was previously held by Chris Kaddaras, who was promoted to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales in February of this year.
Ciena announced that Mary Yang has joined the company as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. Yang will have responsibility for driving Ciena's overall corporate strategy as well as execution of corporate development activities, including mergers and acquisitions and related integrations.
Large campaigns that are spreading malicious browser extensions are abusing Google Ads and well-known cryptocurrency brands to draw in victims. Extensions can be installed to add widgets or other functionality to web browsers; they offer the ability to do everything from setting a special search wallpaper to displaying continuous weather data to language translation.