Security News > 2020
More than 50 Android apps on the Google Play Store-most of which were designed for kids and had racked up almost 1 million downloads between them-have been caught using a new trick to secretly click on ads without the knowledge of smartphone users. While the offending apps have been removed from Google Play, the find by Check Point Research is the latest in an avalanche of ad fraud schemes that have plagued the app storefront in recent years, with malware posing as optimizer and utility apps to perform phony clicks on ads.
Commentary: COVID-19 has laid bare our need to take a new, more data-centric approach to security in light of more people working from home. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a need to reconsider traditional approaches to security.
Guard Dog Solutions, of Salt Lake City, has formally launched the world's first AI-driven solution to preemptively and proactively combat and eliminate public and private Wi-Fi cyber security threats. The majority of "Virtual" working environments accessing VPN from homes are actually dangerous, the company notes, as end points on Wi-Fi systems make it alarmingly easy for hackers to access data through VPNs. As businesses move to support mobile workers, they need to ask their ISPs and MSSPs about Guard Dog Solutions and the Proactive Threat Elimination™ security it brings.
Social distancing has affected consumer shopping patterns, and a TransUnion survey found that 22% of Americans said they've been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19. Consumers are greatly reliant on online retailers during the coronavirus pandemic, and businesses must be armed to combat fraud, while making sure the company's web and mobile platforms are bug-free.
As cyberattacks surge during the COVID-19 crisis and information security teams at healthcare providers and their vendors work to manage new vulnerabilities and threats borne from the rapid transition to a remote workforce, Clearwater's IRM|Analysis software is helping more than 400 healthcare customers rapidly identify, prioritize, and respond to cyber risks on an enterprise scale. Designed to facilitate a consistent, information system-focused risk analysis, the software provides the means to assess risk scenarios presented in a work-from-home environment.
Augury, the world leader in Machine Health Solutions, unveiled new capabilities and enhancements that enable operations and maintenance personnel to remotely monitor, diagnose and share information about the health and performance of the critical machinery that underpins manufacturing processes relied on to produce vital goods, including paper products, bottled water, beer, medicine and more. Augury is also providing increased support for remote on-boarding of new personnel and machines, so companies can be sure all the needed expertise from anywhere in their organization is readily accessible in order to keep all critical machinery running at peak levels, no matter what demands are being placed on it.
Hacking attempts against the health organization and its partners have jumped as they struggle to battle the coronavirus. A hacking group hit the World Health Organization earlier this month to try to steal passwords from agency staffers, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
HCL Technologies, a leading global technology company, announced BigFix 10, a major new release of the industry's leading endpoint management platform, to be generally available in April 2020. BigFix 10 is the only endpoint management platform that enables IT/Security Operations to fully automate discovery, management and remediation, whether it's on-prem or cloud, regardless of location or connectivity.
With the accelerated proliferation of products, channels, marketplaces and customers, CloudBlue helps businesses perform for today's business goals and simultaneously transform for tomorrow's opportunities by enabling speed to market and revenue for all products, across all channels. "The latest version of CloudBlue Connect gives customers even greater operational efficiency and scalability to more easily grow their businesses," said Tarik Faouzi, vice president of CloudBlue.
Qualys announced a cloud-based remote endpoint protection solution at no charge to its customers for 60 days that allows IT and security teams to protect the computers of remote employees. In summary, the free cloud-based Qualys remote protection solution allows security teams to gain instant and continuous visibility of remote computers, easily see missing patches for critical vulnerabilities and deploy them from the cloud.