Security News > 2021 > April

Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum. A newly revised draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched yesterday, added a new strand titled "Considering privacy and security" that "Involves students developing appropriate techniques for managing data, which is personal, and effectively implementing security protocols."

Code42 is introducing enhanced capabilities to the Code42 Incydr data risk detection and response product for identifying insider risk related to file uploads to unsanctioned websites. Incydr Browser Upload Detection is built to detect and alert security teams to unsanctioned browser upload activity, such as employees uploading business documents to personal cloud, email or social media accounts or source code repositories, regardless of the network or internet browser being used.

The next generation of its high-assurance PKI, Entrust PKIaaS is secure, quick to deploy, scales on-demand, and runs in the cloud. Entrust PKI as a Service simplifies cloud migration with pre-built secure solutions that are ready to implement quickly and efficiently, backed by more than 25 years of Entrust PKI expertise and innovation.

Kisi has launched its own Intrusion Detection product, moving the company towards becoming a complete physical security solution. Intrusion Detection allows customers to natively implement alarm policies from their Kisi dashboard.

Echoworx announced the introduction of biometric authentication to its Echoworx Email Encryption platform, enabling secure passwordless authentication options. By leveraging biometrics, along with their growing list of seven authentication options, Echoworx enables enterprises with the option to access encrypted communications in seconds, without the need for registration, questions or passwords.

Mirantis announced a new version of Lens - the Kubernetes IDE. Lens 5 unlocks teamwork and collaboration, eliminating the pain of accessing Kubernetes clusters while providing a unique way for accessing clusters, services, tools, pipelines, automations, and any other related resources in one click, regardless of where or how they are running. Lens 5 introduces Lens Spaces, a centralized cloud-based service - integrated with Lens IDE - that lets teams create collaborative spaces for their cloud-native development needs.

With these additions, StackPulse gives organizations running Kubernetes a powerful set of capabilities to augment their existing incident response practices, helping Site Reliability Engineers understand and investigate issues faster, and deploy well-tested outage mitigation strategies, helping prevent customer-facing downtime. Since Kubernetes is the de-facto standard for running containerized applications, StackPulse wanted to create a set of code-based tools engineers could use to operationalize incident response for production Kubernetes-based applications.

Previously undocumented and stealthy Linux malware named RotaJakiro has been discovered targeting Linux X64 systems. Investigation revealed the backdoor malware they named RotaJakiro, because, say the researchers, "The family uses rotate encryption and behaves differently for root/non-root accounts when executing."

Snyk announced that Snyk is now integrated into Bitbucket tooling, giving Bitbucket Cloud users rich security insights without having to leave the product. This newest collaboration will surface Snyk's developer-first security solution in the Bitbucket Cloud platform for the first time, empowering all Bitbucket Cloud users to now manage and mitigate their open source risk as part of the development process and throughout Bitbucket workflows.

Click Studios, the Australian software firm which confirmed a supply chain attack affecting its Passwordstate password management application, has warned customers of an ongoing phishing attack by an unknown threat actor. "We have been advised a bad actor has commenced a phishing attack with a small number of customers having received emails requesting urgent action," the company said in an updated advisory released on Wednesday.