Security News > 2021 > January

Welcome to the New Year, where we believe most organizations will continue to work through their digital transformation practices. These updated practices heavily impact IT and business leaders who need to expedite their migration to public clouds and in many situations minimize their physical data center footprint.

Iridium announced commercial availability of the Iridium Edge Solar - a secure, maintenance-free, solar-powered remote asset tracking and management device. With over-the-air configuration capabilities, the Iridium Edge Solar is ideal for Vessel Monitoring Systems, fisheries management, tracking of freight shipping containers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition applications, monitoring of oil and gas pipelines and heavy equipment telematics data reporting.

LogMeIn has announced that cloud marketing veteran, Jamie Domenici, will join the company as its new Chief Marketing Officer. Jamie comes to LogMeIn from Salesforce, the world's number one CRM company, where she spent the last ten years bringing cloud software to Small and Midsize businesses, leading all post-sales adoption and onboarding grounded in customer success for every customer.

SmartBear announced Greg Nicastro has joined the company as EVP/GM of Products and Technology. "Greg's proven track record leading product development organizations to innovate and scale will undoubtedly accelerate our product strategy and accomplishments," said Frank Roe, CEO of SmartBear.

"Network connections employing obsolete protocols are at an elevated risk of exploitation by adversaries. As a result, all systems should avoid using obsolete configurations for TLS and SSL protocols." The NSA's alert adds on to an existing collective push for updating TLS protocols, with some of the biggest standards bodies and regulators mandating that web server operators ensure they move to TLS 1.2 before the end of 2020.

Supporters of defeated American president Donald Trump this morning stormed the capital's legislative halls, shutting down the process to confirm his replacement. Within minutes of the president speaking at a rally on the nearby Mall in Washington DC, in which he urged his followers to march to the Capitol and put a stop to Joe Biden being officially approved as the next national leader by lawmakers, fights broke out on the steps of the building as thousands attempted to force their way past the relatively few cops present and break into the building.

"The email, with the subject"GOOD LOAN OFFER!!," at first glance, looks like a usual investment scam," Lopera said in the report about the find. "No obfuscation in the email headers or body is found. Interestingly, attached to the email is an archive containing a Java Archive file called"TRUMP SEX SCANDAL VIDEO.jar.

In order to actually get anything done, those admins most likely have to make use of sudo. As you are probably well aware, with the help of sudo any number of things can be done to your servers.

If you're looking for a way to easily warn your admins to use caution when working with sudo, Jack Wallen has a sure-fire method.

A newly identified malware attack campaign has been exfiltrating emails from targeted organizations using a JavaScript backdoor injected into a webmail system widely used in Taiwan. As an initial attack vector, the group used spear-phishing emails containing obfuscated JavaScript code meant to load malicious scripts from an attacker-controlled remote server.