Security News > 2021 > May

CrowdStrike and Google Cloud announced a series of product integrations to deliver joint customers defense-in-depth security, comprehensive visibility and workload protection at scale across hybrid cloud environments. These integrations will enable more seamless sharing of telemetry and data between the two security platforms, helping maintain high levels of security across a customers' entire cloud or hybrid environment.

This collaboration amplifies Darktrace's self-learning artificial intelligence for cyber security within Microsoft environments, including Microsoft 365 and cloud applications like Azure Sentinel. The partnership between Microsoft and Darktrace provides enhanced security across multi-platform and multi-cloud environments, automates threat investigations, and enables teams to prioritize strategic tasks that matter.

XM Cyber announced that it has signed an agreement with United Arab Emirates-based value-added distributor Spire Solutions. This agreement will enable Spire Solutions to offer XM Cyber solutions in the Middle Eastern market excluding Israel.

Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published by intelligence agencies from the U.K. and U.S. Friday. "SVR cyber operators appear to have reacted by changing their TTPs in an attempt to avoid further detection and remediation efforts by network defenders," the National Cyber Security Centre said.

UScellular, Qualcomm, Ericsson and Inseego announced the companies have successfully achieved a 5G extended-range milestone over millimeter Wave on a commercial network. The achievement demonstrates the impressive range and connectivity speeds 5G mmWave can provide to homes and businesses everywhere.

Everbridge announced the completion of its acquisition of xMatters, a provider of IT Service Operations, Cybersecurity and DevOps incident response management. On April 6, 2021, Everbridge announced a definitive agreement between the parties pursuant to which Everbridge would acquire all of the outstanding equity of xMatters.

The City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has suffered a ransomware attack that forced the City to shut down its systems to prevent the further spread of the malware. Tulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma, with a population of approximately 400,000 people.

A recent Garrison Technology-backed survey of business and cybersecurity leaders indicates there's at least one reason that's not getting much press. The survey's report Cybersecurity Technology Efficacy: Is cybersecurity the new market for lemons? said even with more than a 50% increase in spending over the past five years, cybersecurity is not having much success.

GitHub has added support for securing SSH Git operations using FIDO2 security keys for added protection from account takeover attempts. "Once generated, you add these new keys to your account just like any other SSH key," GitHub Senior Security Engineer Kevin Jones said.

UK clothing chain Next is currently worth more than $10,000 a share on the London Stock Exchange, for example, and Swiss chocolatiers Lindt are currently trading at over $100,000 a share on the SIX Swiss Exchange. So if you wanted to record share prices with an accuracy of 1/100 of a US cent, you'd need to be able to represent numbers up to and beyond 1,000,000,000 , because there are one billion ten-thousandths of a dollar in $100,000.