Security News > 2021 > May

CyberLink announced a partnership with ACE Biotek, by integrating its FaceMe AI facial recognition engine into ACE Biotek's Wallie Screen Access Control and Health Screening System, providing a quick, fully automated solution to control access and check-in personnel, in addition to verifying proper mask wearing and measuring body temperature when required, to maintain a safe environment inside business, medical and other facilities. ACE Biotek's Wallie Screen Access Control and Health Screening System is designed to perform frictionless access control and health checkpoints across industries, including medical and office facilities, primary targets for the company.

HackerOne announced that it is doubling down on its investment in innovation with the hiring of new leaders to drive the product roadmap. HackerOne is investing in innovative solutions for customers and hackers, integrations into existing security operations workflows, and a broader use of vulnerability data.

Socure announced the appointment of Gary Sevounts as its chief marketing officer. In this new role, Sevounts will focus on further establishing Socure and its brand as the industry leader in the digital identity, trust and fraud prevention space.

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This week's ransomware news has been dominated by the attack on Ireland's Health Service Executive that has severely disrupted Ireland's healthcare system. The attack was conducted by the Conti ransomware operation who encrypted devices and caused the HSE to disconnect portions of its IT systems to prevent further spread of the attack.

Air India disclosed a data breach after personal information belonging to roughly 4.5 million of its customers was leaked two months following the hack of Passenger Service System provider SITA in February 2021. "This is to inform that SITA PSS our data processor of the passenger service system had recently been subjected to a cybersecurity attack leading to personal data leak of certain passengers," Air India said in a breach notification sent over the weekend.

Cybercriminals who have worked as affiliates with ransomware group DarkSide, responsible for the Colonial Pipeline attack, are having a tough time getting paid for their work now that the group has had its operations interrupted; so, they're turning to admins of the group's Dark Web criminal forum to sort things out in what researchers call a "Shady version of the People's Court." Ransomware-as-a-service providers like DarkSide strike arrangements with various other cybercriminals to provide malware for their campaigns in exchange for a percentage of the take - and business is booming.

In its early days, SIEM was shaped by new compliance drivers that dominated the era, like PCI or HIPAA. In more recent years, SIEM has evolved to handle the convergence of platforms while accelerating threat detection against sophisticated ransomware and malware. Why SIEM is an Ideal Setup, Now More Than Ever SIEM software uses analytics engines to match events against an organization's policies.

Microsoft has released the first Windows 10 build without the Internet Explorer web browser to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. As Microsoft announced on Wednesday, Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently retired from several Windows 10 versions and editions, and replaced with the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge in June 2022.

Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true. Gwin contacted KrebsOnSecurity after hearing from job seekers trying to verify the ad, which urged respondents to email Gwin at a Gmail address that was not his.