Security News > 2020
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced that Hellman & Friedman has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Company from Insight Partners, which will continue to own a substantial minority interest. The acquisition will bolster the company's already outstanding growth at a time when software security has never been more critical for modern enterprises building out their software solutions.
NS1, a leader in next generation application networking, has expanded its executive team with the appointments of Ryan Davis as chief information security officer and Jay Liu as vice president of product strategy. With expertise in application and cloud security, and driving product strategies through technology innovation, they will help shape internal practices and guide product innovation for NS1's suite of application-centric network automation solutions.
LeanIX, a provider of Software-as-a-Service solutions in Enterprise Architecture Management, announced the appointment of Claudine Bianchi to the newly created position of global Chief Marketing Officer. "Claudine is a battle-tested veteran of enterprise technology who knows how to scale quickly and dominate a segment," said André Christ, co-founder and CEO of LeanIX. "I'm very happy to welcome Claudine to the team because it marks an important moment in our company history."
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 512-gigabyte eUFS 3.1 for use in flagship smartphones. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512GB eUFS 3.0 mobile memory, Samsung's new eUFS 3.1 breaks the 1GB/s performance threshold in smartphone storage.
With many people being laid off or working from home thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, cybercrooks are almost certain to have more than their usual share of recruitable "Money mules" - people who get roped into money laundering schemes under the pretense of a work-at-home job offer. The "Vasty Health Care Foundation" is one of several fraudulent Web sites that recruit money mules in the name of helping Coronavirus victims.
This massive, unprecedented shift to distance working brings with it a whole new set of cybersecurity challenges. A lack of IT resources can bite many organizations as they move to enable remote strategies.
Researchers are sending up a red flag over the distribution of an aggressive stalkerware app called Monitor Minor. Compared to garden-variety stalkerware apps, researchers say Monitor Minor stands out.
Since Coinhive's closure last year, cryptojacking has been almost eliminated, according to a group of researchers from the University of Cincinnati in America, and Lakehead University in Canada, because online ads generate more revenue. Though Coinhive's code was marketed as a monetization alternative to advertising, it was quickly abused - a mining script can also be injected into a website by hackers without the site owner's knowledge.
Researchers say two financial services companies have exposed over 500,000 sensitive legal and financial documents by storing them in an unprotected AWS S3 bucket. VpnMentor's research team discovered the exposed database in December 2019.
With billions of IoT devices transferring data to and from the cloud, ensuring security requires both the IoT cloud service and the device to trust the received data. Mutual authentication ensures that the device and the cloud trust each other, but the fragmentation of the IoT market means that security services scalability and duplication are very limited.