Security News > 2021 > August
eCloudvalley Technology announced that it is the first Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner to achieve the AWS Machine Learning Competency status in the ASEAN region. AWS Machine Learning Competency Partners have demonstrated expertise delivering machine learning solutions on the AWS Cloud.
SailPoint Technologies announced the appointment of Ron Green to the SailPoint Board of Directors, effective on July 27, 2021. The Board determined that Mr. Green is independent, a term defined under the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange.
Google Chrome will no longer show whether a site you are visiting is secure and only show when you visit an insecure website. Currently, when you visit a secure site, Google Chrome will display a little locked icon indicating that your communication with the site is encrypted, as shown below.
That's why this week's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences promise to run hot and heavy with a host of topics in the world of security. First, how might Black Hat USA 2021 and DEF CON 29 differ in their topics and slants? Both are joined at the hip because of their back-to-back schedules and slight distinctions, but there are some nuanced differences between the security conferences, according to 451 Research senior research analyst Daniel Kennedy.
Researchers have discovered nine vulnerabilities - collectively dubbed PwnedPiper - in the pneumatic tube systems used in more than 80 percent of major hospitals in North America. The Translogic PTS system, used by more than 3,000 hospitals worldwide, is the pneumatic version of a hospital's veins, arteries and capillaries: The tubes deliver medications, blood, and lab samples throughout a hospital.
Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 will automatically block potentially unwanted applications by default starting this month. Starting with the Windows 10 2004, the May 2020 update, Microsoft added a new 'Potentially unwanted app blocking' setting in Windows security that causes Microsoft Defender to block these types of applications.
Vulnerability Name Affected Component CVE# Date Underflow in udpRXThread HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel CVE-2021-37161 02/08/2021 Overflow in sccProcessMsg HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel...
Customers who signed up for emails from fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill were recently faced with bigger challenges than queso versus sour cream. The Inky report, posted Friday, found 121 phishing emails sent from the compromised Chipotle Mailgun account sent between July 13 and July 16.
Malicious libraries capable of lifting credit card numbers and opening backdoors on infected machines have been found in PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python. A package dubbed noblesse, and five variants, would, we're told, look on Windows systems for Discord authentication tokens, and browser-stored credit card numbers, and siphon them off to remote systems.
Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PC service is now generally available, allowing businesses to deploy Windows 10 desktops in the cloud for prices ranging between $24 and $162 per device. At the Inspire 2021 conference, Microsoft revealed their new Windows 365 cloud-based virtual desktop experience that allows businesses to deploy Windows 10 Cloud PCs, with Windows 11 later, on the cloud.