Security News > 2021 > January
The report reveals a disruptive year of workforce transformation forced by the COVID-19 shutdowns during which respondents also handled expensive fallouts from network outages and data breaches. The majority of network outages exceeds $1 million in damages: 60% of network outages cost at least $1 million in operational disruptions, reputational damage, lost data, and financial losses.
The global IoT in manufacturing market size is projected to reach $1.0388 billion by 2026, from $567.2 million in 2020, according to Valuates Reports. Major factors driving the growth of IoT in manufacturing market size are the growing need for centralized monitoring and predictive maintenance of manufacturing infrastructure, agile production, operational efficiency, and increasing adoption of the cloud.
Vyopta announced the release of its Intelligent Monitoring Engine. This new solution is part of Vyopta's Collaboration Performance Management suite, and offers industry-leading proactive monitoring that is purpose-built for collaboration.
U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week took control of the dark web site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. Separately, the Bulgarian National Investigation Service and General Directorate Combating Organized Crime seized a dark web hidden resource used by NetWalker ransomware affiliates - i.e., cybercrime groups responsible for identifying and attacking high-value victims using the ransomware - to provide payment instructions and communicate with victims.
China's recent upgrades to its content-blocking Great Firewall can be circumvented, according to censorship fighters from the Great Firewall Report. Members of the group last year published a paper [PDF] detailing how China had improved the firewall to detect the use of Shadowsocks, a tool for using SOCKS5 proxies outside the Middle Kingdom to avoid the nation's internet blockades.
Owl Cyber Defense Solutions announced it is introducing the cybersecurity world to a new class of protection - Owl XDE. XDE is a revolutionary line of embedded security modules intended to secure devices and the IoT, from the inside. Traditional cybersecurity devices, like firewalls, are additive, whereas XDE embedded cybersecurity modules are built into devices and are designed to be impervious to software-based threats, providing previously unheard-of levels of assurance, reliability, and speed.
Veritas Technologies is announcing major updates to its Enterprise Data Services Platform to provide customers with a single platform for all of their cloud environment use cases. "Adding HubStor to the Veritas portfolio allows customers to protect all their data, now including SaaS data, from a single platform, whether in the cloud, in the data center or at the edge."
Nation-state hacker groups mounted attacks against organizations involved in the coronavirus pandemic response, including the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some in an attempt to politicize the pandemic. Even garden-variety cyber attacks like email phishing, social engineering, and refund theft took on a darker flavor in response to the widespread economic precarity brought on by the pandemic.
Veritas Technologies announced the launch of Veritas NetBackup 9. NetBackup 9 delivers significant new features to provide customers with additional choices for deployment across edge, core and cloud, while increasing operational simplicity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it was awarded a $35+ million contract to build a new supercomputer using its end-to-end high performance computing technologies for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Latest system design will help NCAR process compute and image-intensive data to create digital models of various occurrences, from wildfires and solar storms to hurricanes and droughts, with greater accuracy.