Security News > 2021
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company in collaboration with Microsoft, announced two new solutions that enable organizations to accelerate their digital transformation from edge-to-cloud by delivering deeper integration between Aruba ESP and Microsoft Azure. Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2021, the first solution is Aruba IoT Transport for Azure, a service that enables IoT devices connected to Aruba access points and controllers to bi-directionally communicate with the Azure IoT Hub.
Housed in a 1.1mm-high package - making it the thinnest 1TB UFS offering available - the new product utilizes KIOXIA's BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and achieves sequential read speed of up to 2,050MB/sec and sequential write speed of up to 1,200MB/sec. Mobile devices are constantly evolving, and 5G networks are poised to deliver levels of speed, scale and complexities the likes of which have never been seen before.
MorganFranklin Consulting announced the addition of Matt DeFrain to serve as the senior director of cybersecurity business development for the company's cybersecurity practice. Matt is a cybersecurity, operational resilience and crisis management leader who will help guide MorganFranklin clients across industries to improve their cybersecurity postures in the midst of increasing threats.
Collibra announced the appointment of Tifenn Dano Kwan as chief marketing officer, reporting to Collibra's CEO and co-founder, Felix Van de Maele. Prior to joining Collibra, Tifenn held numerous marketing leadership roles at SAP, including as CMO of SAP Ariba, the world's largest B2B network, and SAP Fieldglass.
US managed service provider CompuCom has suffered a DarkSide ransomware attack leading to service outages and customers disconnecting from the MSP's network to prevent the spread of malware. Over the weekend, CompuCom suffered an outage that prevented customers from accessing the company's customer portal to open troubleshooting tickets.
Ping Identity announced that Diane Gherson has joined the company's board of directors. Gherson served as Chief Human Resource Officer for International Business Machines Corporation for seven years, retiring in December 2020.
Amid heightened border tensions between India and China, cybersecurity researchers have revealed a concerted campaign against India's critical infrastructure, including the nation's power grid, from Chinese state-sponsored groups. The attacks, which coincided with the standoff between the two nations in May 2020, targeted a total of 12 organizations, 10 of which are in the power generation and transmission sector.
Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world's most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by the search giant for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday, comes with a total of 47 security fixes, the most severe of which concerns an "Object lifecycle issue in audio."
Jailbreaking most commonly refers to a very specific sort of unlocking tool: one that can release your iPhone or iPad from Apple's notoriously strict walled garden. Jailbreaking, as we have said before, can be a risky business, because in the process of jailbreaking you're actively and deliberately exploiting a security vulnerability that wasn't supposed to the there in the first place.
Microsoft has shared details on Known Issue Rollback, a Windows 10 capability used to revert buggy non-security fixes delivered through Windows Update. As a Windows 10 servicing improvement, Known Issue Rollback allows Microsoft to revert single and targeted bug fixes once critical regressions are detected.