Security News > 2021 > August
Security Matters launched a global sustainability system for recycled plastic content, a key component of tracking global supply chains plastic usage and waste commitments. As a company focused on...
Text IQ announced that its solution for identifying personal information outperformed AWS, Microsoft and Google in a real-life comparison of AI recall and precision. As companies across the globe...
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced the conclusion of its first bug bounty challenge with HackerOne. The Ministry of Defence program was a 30-day, hacker-powered security test...
Appgate announced the appointment of Jawahar Sivasankaran as its new President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Sivasankaran will lead the company’s growth strategy and oversee all go-to-market...
HackNotice announced that it has strengthened its leadership team with the addition of Paul Barringer as Senior Director of Partnerships and Alliances and Keegan Allen as Director of Customer...
Radiant Logic has named Deborah McGinn as its Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, McGinn will lead the corporate marketing strategy and revenue enablement efforts to support the company’s rapid...
Okta welcomes Sagnik Nandy as President of Technology and CTO. Nandy will join Okta’s executive management team and report directly to Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder. As President and CTO,...
In a new report, Proofpoint details how the group TA456, associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, invested years in developing the false profile of a fantasy woman named Marcella Flores, an impossibly shiny haired aerobics instructor from the U.K., to rein in unsuspecting targets. Starting about eight months ago, Proofpoint found TA456 used the Marcella Flores profile to slowly build a relationship with someone who worked for a subsidiary of an aerospace defense contractor in the U.S. Over the months, Marcella shared many emails, pictures and even a video to build trust.
Russia has put forward a draft convention to the United Nations ostensibly to fight cyber-crime. The proposal, titled "United Nations Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes," [PDF] calls for member states to develop domestic laws to punish a far broader set of offenses than current international rules recognize.
Ransomware has seen a significant uptick so far in 2021, with global attack volume increasing by 151 percent for the first six months of the year as compared with the year-ago half. From a hard-number perspective, the ransomware scourge hit a staggering 304.7 million attempted attacks within SonicWall Capture Labs' telemetry.