Security News > 2020
Pyramid Analytics, a leading global provider of next-generation business analytics for the enterprise, welcomed Spencer Johnson as Vice President of North America Sales. Responsible for ensuring that the Pyramid has the necessary people, tools, training, and resources to meet designated revenue goals, Johnson will report to Omri Kohl, co-founder and CEO of Pyramid Analytics.
Want to know why ransomware is still rampant? One in three surveyed folks in North Americans said they would be willing to pay up to unscramble their files once their personal systems were infected. The Russian security house polled more than 2,000 business workers in the US, and 1,000 in Canada, in an online study, and found that 33 per cent would cough up at least some money to cyber-extortionists to get their data back on their own personal machines.
On Thursday, Google released security patches to stomp out high-severity vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser. Overall, eight security bugs were addressed in Chrome browser version 80.0.3987.162 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
It's a topic I never tire of because not only do I believe that there is no "Silver bullet" technology, I believe it's the humans who really lead the way to greater security efficiency and effectiveness. Relevant - As security professionals, we need to change how we look at the threat landscape.
Concerns over privacy and security raise important questions: is Zoom safe, and is it even GDPR compliant? In our current example, we do not know whether the host asked for a copy to be kept by Zoom for future reference, or whether Zoom kept a copy by default.
A security researcher has discovered over 25 different potential vulnerabilities in Windows, including some that could lead to elevation of privileges. The researcher tested the flaws on a guest account on the latest Windows Insider Preview, which was updated last in September 2019.
Law firm Morgan & Morgan announced on Thursday that it has filed a class action lawsuit against Marriott over the recently disclosed data breach that has impacted as many as 5.2 million individuals. The complaint filed by Morgan & Morgan in the District of Maryland accuses Marriott of negligence, breach of contract, breach of confidence, and deceptive and unfair trade practices.
Zoom has nixed a feature that came under fire for "Undisclosed data mining" of users' names and email addresses, used to match them with their LinkedIn profiles. Zoom founder Eric Yuan said in a Wednesday post responding to the concerns that Zoom will freeze the development of its features and instead focusing on security and privacy issues.
Beyond using technology, one key way to combat ransomware is through training, ensuring that your employees understand ransomware, can identify it, and can avoid falling prey to it. The survey was designed to find out how much they know about ransomware and its potential impact on themselves and their companies.
We may have to get the government involved to require certain standards to be met via some sort of security framework. The first thing you have to realise is a "Top down" approach to security does not work for a whole heap of reasons.