Security News > 2021 > May
An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida hosted malicious code on its website in what's known as a watering hole attack. Watering hole attacks typically allow an adversary to compromise a specific group of end-users by compromising a carefully selected website, which members of that group are known to visit, with an intention to gain access to the victim's system and infect it with malware.
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Thales announced new data protection solutions for Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, solidifying its role as a trusted third party for multicloud data security. With each cloud provider having unique data protection mechanisms and key management offerings, multicloud data protection presents a complex security challenge for organizations.
BehavioSec announced new features added in its upcoming release of the BehavioSec behavioral biometrics platform - BehavioSense. "These features add to our platform's existing anti-fraud capabilities and are designed to solve the COVID-19 era challenge of accelerated digital transformation, online security, and privacy regulation compliance."
Cellebrite launched the latest version of Cellebrite Pathfinder, its flagship investigative analytics solution achieving significant milestones in data analysis, enterprise readiness, scalability and process performance. Pathfinder uses AI and machine learning to enable investigative units to process digital data efficiently and effectively with advanced filtering, categorization, tagging and analyzing capabilities.
Avast announces the official launch of Avast Business Hub, a new security platform designed to streamline how Avast's channel partners, managed security service providers, and business customers manage their cybersecurity solutions. Avast Business Hub consolidates a number of critical security and availability capabilities for SMBs. It consolidates endpoint protection, patch management, backup and recovery, and remote access and support solutions into an integrated security platform that enables organizations to easily manage and protect their devices, applications, data, and networks.
Arctic Wolf launched Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness, a radical new approach to security and awareness training that helps organizations build cyber resilience against social engineering, phishing attacks, and credential theft. Arctic Wolf is the first managed detection and response vendor to offer a comprehensive, fully managed, security awareness solution natively from its security operations-focused Arctic Wolf Platform.
Wind River announced security enhancements to Wind River Studio, a cloud-native platform for the development, deployment, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent systems. "In an intelligent systems world where devices are expected to connect and compute together in near real time, cyber security is a design necessity and no longer a 'nice to have.' This is even more true for mission-critical systems, such as those in the energy, aerospace and defense, and industrial sectors. Recent research with executive leaders in these sectors has shown us that companies on a successful path with their intelligent systems were twice as likely to have built-in deep cyber protections for their systems than any other group," said Cyra Richardson, chief product officer, Wind River.
Sierra Wireless announced its next generation of 5G mobile broadband embedded modules, the EM92 Series. Adding to Sierra Wireless' existing portfolio of EM Series modules, the new and advanced 5G EM92 Series is based on the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems.
JumpCloud announced JumpCloud Protect, a one-touch multi-factor authentication solution that makes it easy for IT admins to deploy and enforce MFA without adversely impacting end users. JumpCloud Protect is a fully featured mobile MFA app, that allows employees authenticating into protected apps and resources to verify themselves directly from their corporate-issued or BYOD mobile device.