Security News > 2021 > January
Cisco announced the appointment of John D. Harris II to its board of directors. "We are very pleased to welcome John to the Cisco Board," said Chuck Robbins, chairman and CEO, Cisco.
IBM announced the appointment of Martin Schroeter as Chief Executive Officer of the independent company that will be created following the separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business, effective January 15. Mr. Schroeter served as IBM's Senior Vice President, Global Markets, where he was responsible for IBM's global sales, client relationships and satisfaction, and worldwide geographic operations, before leaving IBM in June 2020.
Bringing more than 36 years of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community cybersecurity experience, Heckman will partner with clients to deliver cyber resilience for DoD policy, strategy, IT and weapon system cybersecurity. His focus encompasses all aspects of cyber and secure information sharing, ranging from innovative approaches to cyber strategy, policy, security architecture and engineering, to initiatives such as controls for IT modernization, Risk Management Framework transformation, identity and access management evolution and data protection.
SAS announced the appointment of Bryan Harris to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. "Analysts have long recognized the value SAS brings to our customers," said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight.
RingCentral announced that industry security veteran, Heather Hinton has joined RingCentral as the company's Chief Information Security Officer. Hinton joins RingCentral from IBM, where she spent 13 years in various leadership positions, most recently as vice president and IBM distinguished engineer, and CISO for the company's Cloud and Cognitive Software business unit.
A U.S. court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Russian to 12 years in prison for perpetrating an international hacking campaign that resulted in the heist of a trove of personal information from several financial institutions, brokerage firms, financial news publishers, and other American companies. Rei Tyurin was charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses, and for his role in one of the largest thefts of U.S. customer data from a single financial institution in history, which involved the personal information of more than 80 million J.P. Morgan Chase customers.
With 2021 finally here, Microsoft is planning on releasing some exciting new features and updates this year for Windows 10 operating system and other products. Microsoft has already confirmed that Windows 11 wouldn't be released, and the company plans to update Windows 10 with new variants, features, improvements, and fixes.
Windows 10 users can now integrate the Everything search engine directly into the Windows taskbar using the new 'EverythingToolbar' application. If you are a user of voidtool's Everything search engine for Windows, you know what a terrific search tool it is for Windows.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, known as Te Pūtea Matua, has suffered a data breach after threat actors hacked a third-party hosting partner. The Reserve Bank is the central bank of New Zealand and is responsible for creating monetary policy to stabilize prices in the country.
New Zealand's central bank said Sunday it was responding with urgency to a "Malicious" breach of one of its data systems, a third-party file sharing service that stored "Sensitive information". Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr said the breach had been contained and the system was taken offline but it would take time to determine what information had been accessed.