Security News > 2021 > May
Azure Databricks is one of the fastest growing Azure services and has become a key part of 3Cloud's toolset for building modern, cloud-based data and AI platforms for its clients. As a new Databricks partner, 3Cloud was recently presented with the Rising Star award at the Databricks Partner Executive Summit.
Uptycs provides the first cloud-native security analytics platform that enables endpoint and cloud security from a single platform. The solution provides a unique telemetry powered approach to address multiple use cases-including Extended Detection & Response, Cloud Workload Protection, and Cloud Security Posture Management.
The funding round was led by New York-based Elephant, with participation from DataDome's existing investor ISAI. The cash infusion will enable DataDome to aggressively scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams, and puts the company on track to deliver on its ambition to double its Annual Recurring Revenue and its customer base. More than 50% of this growth will come from the US. Observing a 47% increase of bot fraud attacks against digital businesses over the past 6 months, DataDome secures its customers against online fraud.
Cobalt Iron announced that it has been granted a patent on its technology for dynamic authorization control based on conditions and events. Issued on May 4, U.S. patent #10999290 describes new capabilities for Cobalt Iron Compass, an enterprise SaaS backup platform, that enable the use of analytics and machine learning to adjust user authentication and access to IT resources dynamically based on a variety of environmental and operational considerations.
Veteran risk executive, Ashish Gupta, has joined LendingPoint as Chief Risk Officer. Gupta will lead data science/AI, risk, fraud, and market modeling as well as pricing for LendingPoint's direct-to-consumer and point of sale/ecommerce verticals.
1Password announced the appointment of Raj Sarkar as Chief Marketing Officer. Raj joins the executive team at 1Password after working closely with the organization as a board advisor for the past year.
A fake version of the popular remote desktop application AnyDesk, pushed via ads appearing in Google search results, served up a trojanized version of the program. The campaign even bested AnyDesk's own ad campaign on Google - ranking higher in its paid results.
Adversaries could exploit newly discovered security weaknesses in Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile Specifications to masquerade as legitimate devices and carry out man-in-the-middle attacks. "Devices supporting the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Specifications are vulnerable to impersonation attacks and AuthValue disclosure that could allow an attacker to impersonate a legitimate device during pairing," the Carnegie Mellon CERT Coordination Center said in an advisory published Monday.
The security team at Forrester busts a number of security myths. Recently, an op-ed sent information security Twitter into a tizzy by blaming cybersecurity industry best practices for recent high-profile security breaches.
Google says the latest Google Chrome release comes with a significant performance boost due to newly added improvements to the open-source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Google Chrome 91, which started rolling out earlier this week, is executing JavaScript code 23% faster with the inclusion of a new JavaScript compiler and the use of a new way to optimize the code's location in memory.