Security News > 2020
Echoworx, the industry leader in message encryption, unveiled enhancements to its OneWorld cloud-based security platform with the addition of user-centric two-factor authentication, enabling enterprises of all sizes to adopt best-in-class security protocols while improving user experience. "Enterprises, customers and employees want the enhanced security that multi-factor authentication provides," said Chris Peel, Echoworx Vice President Customer Engineering.
Trustwave announced the Trustwave Fusion platform, the company's cloud-native platform that serves as the cornerstone for its products, managed security services and other cybersecurity offerings, in Germany. The Trustwave Fusion platform connects German enterprises and government institutions to a security cloud composed of the Trustwave data lake, advanced analytics, actionable threat intelligence and a deep portfolio of products and managed security services.
You'd think HTTPS certificate checking would be a cinch for a computer security toolkit - but no so for Avast's AntiTrack privacy tool. The flaws affect both the Avast and AVG versions of AntiTrack, and punters are advised to update their software as a fix for both tools has been released.
Global Cloud Xchange, the leading provider of global managed next-generation networks, and Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, announced the extension of their partnership by adding new spectrum capacity over the Flag Atlantic transatlantic system connecting Paris and London to New York. Under the agreement, GCX will provide additional terabyte of capacity on the current transatlantic connectivity, thus enabling Sparkle to offer even faster and more reliable City2City connectivity and Seabone IP Transit services over one of the world's most growing corridors.
The launch of "Mobile Optimization Pro," powered by NetMotion, further expands Deutsche Telekom's offerings in the mobile enterprise space and gives customers in verticals such as transportation and logistics, automotive, manufacturing, public safety, professional services and pharmaceuticals access to powerful connectivity solutions that improve the user experience. Combining Deutsche Telekom's position as Germany's leading business telecommunications provider with NetMotion's expertise in enhancing security and user experience for mobile workers, Germany's remote and mobile workforces will benefit from always on, optimized and encrypted cellular and Wi-Fi connections that help increase productivity.
WatchGuard Technologies, a leading global provider of network security and intelligence, secure Wi-Fi and multi-factor authentication, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Panda Security, a leading global provider in advanced endpoint protection. Under its current leadership team, WatchGuard has continued to deliver on its vision of providing a complete security portfolio of products and services that protect users both inside and beyond the network perimeter, including secure Wi-Fi solutions, multi-factor authentication, and now most recently, user-focused security services.
AMD processors sold between 2011 and 2019 are vulnerable to two side-channel attacks that can extract kernel data and secrets, according to a new research paper. In a paper [PDF] titled, "Take A Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD's Cache Way Predictors," six boffins - Moritz Lipp, Vedad Hadžić, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, and Arthur Perais - explain how they reverse-engineered AMD's L1D cache way predictor to expose sensitive data in memory.
AMD processors sold between 2011 and 2019 are vulnerable to two side-channel attacks that can extract kernel data and secrets, according to a new research paper. In a paper [PDF] titled, "Take A Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD's Cache Way Predictors," six boffins - Moritz Lipp, Vedad Hadžić, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss, Clémentine Maurice, and Arthur Perais - explain how they reverse-engineered AMD's L1D cache way predictor to expose sensitive data in memory.
Facebook has been accused of lying to a US court in its ongoing legal battle against government malware maker NSO Group. A series of filings from NSO lawyers lay out the Israeli security company's reasoning for its no-show in court on 2 March, including the accusation that Facebook never properly served its lawyers with legal papers, despite telling the court that it had. The accusations were made in court documents [PDF] in which NSO has asked the court to vacate the earlier default judgement entered at the start of last week after the security shop's lawyers failed to turn up at the California US District Court.
Targeted ransomware attacks continue to increase as gangs seek to obtain bigger ransom payoffs from larger targets, security experts warn. Some underground actors provide purpose-built tools that have been widely adopted by ransomware gangs.