Security News > 2020
"Panorays CTO Demi Ben-Ari explains,"Panorays' unique 360-degree rating approach offers cloud provider consumers full visibility into the security posture of their providers. The Panorays partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance enables companies to quickly and easily ascertain if their cloud provider complies with standard security regulations.
OPAQ, the SASE network company, and PacketFabric, the leading Network-as-a-Service platform, announced a partnership to provide customers on-demand, elastic Network-as-a-Service connectivity with a comprehensive suite of built-in security controls. In addition to bandwidth problems, COVID-19-related remote work is straining security appliances used to inspect traffic entering and leaving corporate data centers, while devices used by employees are now under-protected, which opens the door to new security risks.
Sierra Wireless, the leading IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network services and software to unlock value in the connected economy, announced the appointment of Gregory L. Waters to the company's Board of Directors. "Greg's deep experience in business transformation in the semiconductor industry with IDT, Skyworks and Agere will be a great asset to Sierra Wireless as we continue our transformation to a solutions and services provider," said Robin Abrams, Board Chair, Sierra Wireless.
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced it has added Sohaib Abbasi to its board of directors. "Sohaib is a great addition to our board. He is a quintessential builder who has formed and led businesses in multiple categories including database, data management and cloud," said Dheeraj Pandey, Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of Nutanix.
A malware campaign that shares no known similarities to previous attacks has been uncovered, targeting organizations in the Middle East. Dubbed "WildPressure," the campaign used a previously unknown malware that researchers named Milum, after the C++ class names inside the code.
As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates, authorities worldwide are plotting ways to flatten the curve of infection rates using potentially privacy-busting measures such as phone tracking, facial recognition and other tech. In this Threatpost poll, we want your take on whether sacrificing personal privacy for the public good is worth it.
VMware has released an update for the macOS version of Fusion to fix a privilege escalation vulnerability for which it initially released an incomplete patch. VMware told customers on March 17 that Fusion, Remote Console and Horizon Client for Mac are impacted by a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-3950.
Adobe has issued a patch for a critical flaw that can be exploited to delete files from Windows computers running the Creative Cloud client. "Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary File Deletion in the context of the current user," Adobe said in its bulletin today.
The attack appeared to be aimed at achieving a foothold at the agency rather than being an end unto itself: "The targeting infrastructure seems to focus on certain types of healthcare and humanitarian organizations that are uncommon for cybercriminals," Costin Raiu, researcher at Kaspersky, told Threatpost. As for the "Why" of the attack, which was thwarted, Raiu said that information about remediation for coronavirus - such as cures, tests or vaccines - would be invaluable to any nation-state's intelligence officials.
A targeted and ongoing malicious campaign first spotted last year has hit organizations in the Middle East with a new, fully-fledged Trojan, Kaspersky reveals. The attacks were aimed at various organizations, some related to the industrial sector.