Security News > 2021 > October

The market for the B2B sharing economy isn't small, with almost every business now leveraging sharing companies to take advantage of all sorts of services that might range from manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing to software development, computer hardware rental, and online HR & payroll services, to name a few. A crucial point that many businesses engaged in the B2B sharing economy are increasingly aware of is that engagement often carries considerable liability risk, which is why it is of utmost importance for businesses to insure against this risk with robust verification services.

To select a suitable SD-WAN solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. Direct internet access is everywhere and requires full security in single path with SD-WAN. Otherwise, your security device SSL decrypts traffic for threat hunting and next the SD-WAN device decrypts the traffic to find out how to prioritize apps inside.

With CentOS 8 coming out in September 2019, it gave enterprise users a long time frame to test and switch to CentOS 8. Some CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 users moved quickly and adopted CentOS 8, but these users were in for a surprise.

India's Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of commissioning a Technical Committee to investigate whether the national government used the NSO Group's "Pegasus" spyware on its citizens. Discomfort with India's use of Pegasus has bubbled along ever since, helped by several petitions that sought to determine the extend of government spyware usage, and whether or not it was constitutional.

The survey found that concerns around internet security rose by 16% from 2020 to the highest level of U.S. internet security concerns in the 15 years that Unisys has been running the study. "With the hybrid workforce here to stay, the survey shines a light on the need to balance productivity and collaboration tools with security, which do not have to be mutually exclusive," said Leon Gilbert, SVP and GM, Digital Workplace Solutions, Unisys.

Fifty-eight million consumers had a new account opened without their authorization in the last 12 months, a 21% increase compared to 2020, yet less than half of Americans know how to protect their data and identities. Unauthorized account openings driven by increased reliance on digital services.

Most notably, the research reveals data exfiltration remains a significant threat and despite large investments in security tools, organizations are not confident they can stop data exfiltration. "Existing tools are no longer a sufficient measure to prevent data exfiltration. Anti data exfiltration provides a new approach in the ongoing fight against cyberattacks."

A Russian national believed to be a member of the TrickBot malware development team has been extradited to the U.S. and is currently facing charges that could get him 60 years in prison. He is the second malware developer associated with the TrickBot gang that the Department of Justice arrested this year.

We've been using Edge on Linux for quite some time, first in Dev Build form, then in its Beta flavour. As you probably know, Edge no longer has Microsoft's in-house HTML and JavaScript engines at its core, but is based, like many other contemporary browsers, on the Google-derived open source Chromium project.

Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers have actively exploited."Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 exist in the wild," Google disclosed in the list of security fixes in today's Google Chrome release.