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Acronis announced the acquisition of Synapsys, its long-time partner located in Cape Town, South Africa that specializes in distributing Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions through the service provider channel. Synapsys is a channel-centric group of companies that delivers Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions to thousands of customers through a network of sub-distributors, resellers, and managed service providers in South Africa and across the continent.
The new members bring decades of leadership experience in the cybersecurity and software ecosystem to the CYE Advisory Board, and will be vital in supporting CYE's mission to make digital environments a safer place. Franck is also a board member of several SW companies, and will serve as Chairperson of the CYE Advisory Board.
Ansys announced that Jim Frankola accepted an appointment to the Ansys Board of Directors, effective March 12, 2021 - bringing with him more than 25 years of business transformation, corporate governance and financial experience. Frankola is the chief financial officer of Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company.
SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. In a SIM swap, the attackers redirect the target's phone number to a device they control, and then can intercept the target's incoming SMS messages and phone calls.
A Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after coordinating the hack of high-profile Twitter accounts to run a cryptocurrency scam that collected roughly $120,000 worth of bitcoins. Graham Ivan Clark was charged last year as an adult in July 2020, he turned 18 in January 2021, as the first suspect and the one who orchestrated last year's Twitter hack.
The FBI has issued a warning about an uptick in cyberattacks on the education sector that are delivering the PYSA ransomware. In a "Flash" alert to the cybersecurity community issued on Tuesday, the Feds said that PYSA has been seen in attacks on schools in 12 U.S. states and in the United Kingdom in March alone.
Network and asset discovery provider Rumble this week announced that it has raised $5 million in VC funding. Founded by H.D. Moore, who is best known for creating Metasploit and who also started Rapid7's Project Sonar, Rumble officially launched in October 2019, after a six-month beta period.
A 17-year-old high school senior along with her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, were arrested this week, charged with accessing student records in a fraudulent attempt to rig her school's Homecoming Queen election. The same district where her daughter attended Tate High School, the Washington Post reported.
Russian authorities said Tuesday they would block Twitter in a month if it doesn't take steps to remove banned content, a move that escalates the Russian government's drawn-out standoff with social media platforms that have played a major role in amplifying dissent in Russia. Russia's state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, last week announced it was slowing down the speed of uploading photos and videos to Twitter over its alleged failure to remove content encouraging suicide among children and information about drugs and child pornography.
The now-defunct WeLeakInfo data breach site has suffered its own data breach after a threat actor leaked the service's payment information and customer info. Last Thursday, a threat actor released an archive of payment processing data used by WeLeakInfo when processing payments through Stripe.