Security News > 2021 > April
Split announced a new integration with Jira Software in support of Open DevOps, an open toolchain allowing software development teams to use Atlassian products with third-party tools as a seamless, all-in-one solution. The integration unites Split's feature flagging capabilities with Jira project planning, giving engineering and product teams greater visibility, enhancing coordination when tracking release progress, and enabling greater efficiencies from flag creation to rollout to code cleanup.
Nintex announced it is helping organizations accelerate their digital business transformation initiatives with pre-built configurable process maps, workflow and forms automation, as well as robotic process automation templates. Downloadable business solution templates from Nintex span common use cases, industries, and departments and are available in the Nintex Solution Accelerator Gallery and integrated with Nintex Workflow Cloud.
Fusion Risk Management announced that it has further strengthened its offerings to help financial institutions meet and exceed new Bank of England, PRA, and FCA regulatory requirements which take effect in early 2022, in addition to the recently formalized guidance shared by the Basel Committee. Fusion's collaborative ENGAGE customer community fosters a common understanding and best practices between those working toward greater operational resilience in financial services.
Chinese security outfit Qihoo 360 Netlab on Wednesday said it has identified Linux backdoor malware that has remained undetected for a number of years. An MD5 signature for the file systemd-daemon first showed up in VirusTotal back on May 16, 2018 without the detection of any known malware.
Senet and SenRa announced several significant milestones in their partnership to design, deploy and manage highly scalable LoRaWAN networks globally. These milestones build on a partnership formed in 2017 in which SenRa chose Senet's cloud-based Managed Network Services for IoT to launch its LoRaWAN network rollout throughout India.
Brazil's Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul was hit with an REvil ransomware attack yesterday that encrypted employee's files and forced the courts to shut down their network. Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul is the court system for the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Openminded, a France-based cybersecurity services company that provides advisory, cloud & infrastructure security, cyber defense, and managed security services. Once completed, the acquisition would bring approximately 100 highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to Accenture Security's workforce of nearly 7,000 professionals globally and extend Accenture's cybersecurity presence and capabilities in France and in Europe.
Opsera will continue to grow its engineering team, and accelerate its global sales, marketing and customer success initiatives. Opsera simplifies the set-up, use, and management of commercial and open-source tools across the DevOps ecosystem, and correlates and unifies data to provide contextualized diagnostics, metrics and actionable insights.
Of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and doxxing what looked like its data, the Babuk ransomware-as-a-service gang prepared a goodbye note saying that they're hanging up its spurs. Babuk did promise to pass the torch on to other criminals by open-sourcing the source code for the Babuk file-encrypting malware, saying that it would make it publicly available once it terminated the "Project."
In pursuit of this collaborative mission, Fastly has joined the World Wide Web Consortium and will participate in the WebAssembly Working Group, and continues its contributions to the newly-incorporated Bytecode Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a new, more secure software ecosystem. Led by Fastly's WebAssembly team, the evolution of Cranelift's secure sandboxing is one example of the Bytecode Alliance's commitment to fostering more secure software development.