Security News > 2021 > May
QNAP NAS devices under ransomware attackQNAP NAS device owners are once again under attack by ransomware operators, who are exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability to lock data on vulnerable devices by using the 7-Zip open-source file archiver utility. Q1 2021 ransomware trends: Most attacks involved threat to leak stolen dataThe vast majority of ransomware attacks now include the theft of corporate data, Coveware says, but victims of data exfiltration extortion have very little to gain by paying a cyber criminal.
Armory introduced Armory Minnaker, a virtual machine leveraging K3s and the Armory Operator to enable software deployments in only 10 minutes instead of 10 days. Armory Minnaker is a full Spinnaker installation packaged inside a virtual machine running the certified K3s Kubernetes distribution.
CyberGRX announced that its Framework Mapper capability is now available to third parties. With the ability to map CyberGRX's assessment back to industry frameworks, third parties will be able to translate the CyberGRX assessment to other standards, allowing them to share assessments quicker and engage with more customers than ever before.
Workiva announced it has extended its cloud platform capabilities to help companies meet the rapidly changing landscape of Environmental, Social and Governance reporting with a fit-for-purpose ESG solution. "Workiva has years of experience solving complex business problems for the world's largest organizations, including managing and reporting financial, non-financial and ESG data and meeting changing regulations head on," said Julie Iskow, chief operating officer of Workiva.
Qumulo announced support for Amazon Nimble Studio, a new service that enables customers to set up creative studios in hours instead of weeks, with elasticity that gives them near limitless scale and access to rendering on demand. Together with high-performance file data management from Qumulo, customers can unlock remote content creation workflows at massive scale and performance across nearly every aspect of the media and entertainment data lifecycle on AWS global infrastructure at petabyte scale, with real-time visibility, predictive caching, and a comprehensive API. Powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud G4 instances, Amazon Nimble Studio virtual workstations provide on-demand compute power to handle the demands of even the most challenging content creation needs.
Wipro Limited announced that it has strengthened its alliance with Citrix Systems and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The partnership will provide enterprises a robust solution that will accelerate remote working and bring modernization into workspaces.
Qohash expanded its U.S. presence with a New Jersey office and three senior account executives who will focus on sales in the U.S. market. Qohash Solutions, Inc. was launched to accelerate access to the company's cloud-based Qostodian Prime data risk management platform nationally and in the New York metro area, where many major financial institutions are based.
The Windows 10 Device Manager is getting a helpful upgrade that makes it easier to uninstall a specific driver by seeing what devices are using it. When Windows 10 detects a new hardware component, it will attempt to find a compatible driver to initialize the hardware in the operating system.
As more companies and independent developers are switching to Progressive Web Apps as their preferred solution for native apps, Microsoft and Google are slowly adding new PWA features to improve the web apps experience on Windows and other platforms. For those unaware, Progressive web app, or PWA, is the latest web technology that allows anyone to use web sites as native mobile or desktop apps.
Microsoft has updated the security baseline for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise to include protection from JScript code execution attacks and unsigned macros. Security baselines enable security admins to use Microsoft-recommended Group Policy Object baselines to reduce the attack surface of Microsoft 365 Apps and boost the security posture of enterprise endpoints they run on.