Security News > 2021 > June
ICASI - the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet was officially integrated into the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams on May 28 2021. Founded in 1990, FIRST is the global leader in incident response.
ID R&D's pioneering facial and voice biometric capabilities provide increased protection against today's most sophisticated identity theft and increasingly dangerous fraud techniques, such as deepfakes and synthetic voice augmentation. To defend against the rise and growing sophistication of these fraud attacks, the identity verification market is expected to reach $15.8 billion in the US by 2025, according to a report by Markets and Markets.
Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Nell'Armonia, a consulting and technology company specialized in enterprise performance management solutions, headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 2005, Nell'Armonia has more than 135 highly skilled professionals with experience in Oracle EPM cloud solutions, as well as Anaplan, CCH Tagetik and OneStream solutions, serving clients across France and Israel with services that cover the entire EPM spectrum, from advisory to implementation and maintenance.
OwnBackup announces the acquisition of Nimmetry, based in Santa Clara, CA, with a significant presence in Hyderabad, India. "This acquisition accelerates OwnBackup's multi-cloud strategy. The entrance into the Indian market and the access to the talented professionals that are now part of the OwnBackup family marks the continuance of a long-term commitment on OwnBackup's part to providing industry-leading products and services to help our customers protect their mission critical SaaS data," says Sam Gutmann, CEO of OwnBackup.
The council is set to meet virtually on a quarterly basis to maintain a continuous exchange of information on cyber threats and cybersecurity solutions. Which is why the Asia Pacific Public Sector Cyber Security Executive Council couldn't have come at a more critical time, where the stakeholders in the ecosystem can collaborate on prioritizing national cybersecurity defense.
The ongoing multi-vendor investigations into the SolarWinds mega-hack took another twist this week with the discovery of new malware artifacts that could be used in future supply chain attacks. According to a new report from anti-malware firm SentinelOne, the latest wave of attacks being attributed to APT29/Nobelium threat actor includes a custom downloader that is part of a "Poisoned update installer" for electronic keys used by the Ukrainian government.
LoginID announced additional investment from Visa on the heels of its $6M seed round from veteran payment and fintech entrepreneurs. Visa recognizes that strong authentication solutions from companies like LoginID help promote its vision to improve integrity around payments - both reducing fraud and helping merchants meet global regulatory and compliance demands.
He is responsible for identifying, designing and developing leading-edge technology that delivers increased value to global customers as part of the Avaya OneCloud experience platform. As a transformational leader, Zerbe brings more than twenty-five years of software development and extensive cloud experience to Avaya.
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain hack returned to the threat landscape to target government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations located across 24 countries, including the U.S. Some of the entities that were singled out include the U.S. Atlantic Council, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Center, the EU DisinfoLab, and the Government of Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. The attacks leveraged a legitimate mass-mailing service called Constant Contact to conceal its malicious activity and masquerade as USAID, a U.S.-based development organization, for a wide-scale phishing campaign that distributed phishing emails to a variety of organizations and industry verticals.
Ransomware victims are increasingly falling back on their cyber-insurance. Paid ransomware attackers almost $500,000,which the city announced would be mostly covered by insurance.