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Digital Guardian announced it significantly enhanced its relationship with Amazon Web Services through several key initiatives and achievements. Digital Guardian has announced the general availability of their integration with Amazon Macie, a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and provide additional protection for customers' sensitive data in AWS. As organizations manage growing volumes of data, identifying and protecting their sensitive data at scale can become increasingly complex, expensive, and time-consuming.
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This global Alliance brings together top technologists across the AI spectrum and includes a wide range of member companies. Partnerships in the Alliance will help create a Canonical Stack for AI, by driving strong engineering standards and creating seamless integration points between various layers of the AI infrastructure ecosystem.
Security Compass announced their Advisory Division has been re-established as a distinct business unit within the company. Started in 2004, Security Compass Advisory is a cybersecurity consulting organization that helps companies improve the security posture of their existing technology environments and accelerate adoption of new technology.
Cybersecurity researchers today unwrapped a new campaign aimed at spying on vulnerable Tibetan communities globally by deploying a malicious Firefox extension on target systems. "Threat actors aligned with the Chinese Communist Party's state interests delivered a customized malicious Mozilla Firefox browser extension that facilitated access and control of users' Gmail accounts," Proofpoint said in an analysis.
On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself "The Shadow Brokers" announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor believed to be affiliated to the Tailored Access Operations unit of the U.S. National Security Agency. "The caught-in-the-wild exploit of CVE-2017-0005, a zero-day attributed by Microsoft to the Chinese APT31, is in fact a replica of an Equation Group exploit codenamed 'EpMe,'" Check Point researchers Eyal Itkin and Itay Cohen said.
Cobalt announced it has named Eric Brinkman as its new Chief Product Officer. To accomplish these goals, Brinkman will be responsible for defining Cobalt's three year product strategy and fully rounding out Cobalt's product team with key hires.
CounterFlow AI announced Carter Bullard as the company's new Chief Technology Officer. A significant voice in the cybersecurity and networking community for over 35 years, Carter joins CounterFlow AI to lead technology innovation as the company continues to deliver network security solutions that provide visibility into encrypted traffic.
Intel has addressed Wi-Fi and Wireless Bluetooth drivers issues causing Windows 10 blue screen of death errors and Bluetooth devices to lose connection or stop working. The new Intel Wireless drivers address Windows 10 stop errors and issues causing wireless adapters to fail to connect to 5GHz networks.
That's a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year. A new report from the Labor Department's Office of Inspector General found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5 billion in fraudulent jobless benefits - nearly two-thirds of the phony claims it reviewed - was paid out to individuals with Social Security numbers filed in multiple states.