Security News > 2020
This raise enables Privitar to further accelerate the development of its data privacy platform, fuel continued innovation, and support key growth initiatives, with a focus on international expansion and increased hiring across sales, services, product development, and other areas of the business. "The Privitar platform enables our customers to unlock and use their data to create better products and services while minimizing friction and risk," said Jason du Preez, CEO of Privitar.
Axiado Corporation's Board of Directors announced that it has named Gopi Sirineni as the company's Chief Executive Officer, effective April 3, 2020. "As a Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries, Sirineni will drive Axiado's growth trajectory forward from our current development phase to rolling out an industry-first, hardware-based, line-rate cybersecurity product," said Dave Welch, member of Axiado's Board of Directors and Founder of Infinera.
Brother Mobile Solutions, a premier provider of mobile, desktop and industrial printers widely used in the retail, supply chain, field service, home healthcare, transportation and manufacturing industries, unveils its new 'Shift & Print' Subscription Service for technology acquisition. Among the first-to-market in the Auto-ID industry, the new monthly subscription service is an innovative Hardware-as-a-Service model, designed to help businesses acquire the state-of-the-art mobile and industrial printing and labeling technology needed to maintain efficient and competitive operations.
Over 80 percent of exposed Exchange servers are still vulnerable to a severe vulnerability - nearly two months after the flaw was patched, and after researchers warned that multiple threat groups were exploiting it. Researchers recently used Project Sonar, a scanning tool, to analyze internet-facing Exchange servers and sniff out which were vulnerable to the flaw.
The number of identified zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited has increased in 2019, revealing a broadened access to these security flaws, according to security firm FireEye. FireEye research found that more zero-days were exploited last year than in any of the previous three years, while also observing that more tracked actors have gained access to such capabilities.
Many companies are offering free cybersecurity tools and resources to help organizations during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Tens of companies have announced over the past weeks that they are offering free tools and services to organizations impacted by the pandemic.
Business email compromise attempts were globally up by a quarter in the first two months of this year alone, according to research from threat intel firm Trend Micro. "IT security teams around the world may be under significant pressure today, as the corporate attack surface expands thanks to mass home working demands in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic. But now, more than ever, they must be on high alert as opportunistic cyber-attackers look to strike," said a solemn Ian Heritage, cloud security architect at Trend Micro.
Enterprise content firewall provider Accellion on Tuesday announced that it has raised $120 million in a growth private equity round, which it will use for go-to-market initiatives, research and development, and mergers and acquisitions plans. "We are very excited to bring on Sagemount as a strategic and financial partner. Given their success investing in market-leading, high-growth software companies, we believe they are the right partner to help us create the enterprise content firewall category," Yaron said.
Independent security researcher Ryan Pickren has revealed how a malicious website could hack Apple's Safari browser on iOS and macOS to spy on the user through the computer's camera without prompting for permission. Apple fixed the issues with Safari 13.1, crediting Pickren for three bug reports in the patch release notes.
In an unprecedented and hotly debated move, the New York City Department of Education banned the use of Zoom, writing in an internal memo on April 3 that teachers were no longer allowed to use the platform at all. "We know the transition away from Zoom will take time for many educators and we will support them. We know maintaining continuity of teaching means it won't happen overnight. Less than 2 weeks ago, our heroic educators began transforming instruction for 1.1M kids, bringing the nation's largest public school system online. They rose to this challenge with grace, and our whole city is grateful for how they've learned to teach and lead remotely," Carranza wrote.