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AWS and Azure users will achieve significant performance improvements and cost reductions with the launch of the new CloudOps Active Management Solution from igroup. Installed on any new or existing Azure or AWS infrastructure, allows companies using it to concentrate on delivering higher quality applications and services in the cloud rather than spending time supporting and managing their cloud.
Veteran cybersecurity practitioner, entrepreneur and executive Caleb Sima has been tapped to lead security at mobile stock trading startup Robinhood. Sima, a security leader with an established presence in cybersecurity for more than two decades, announced the move on LinkedIn.
Social news community site Reddit announced on Monday that it has hired Allison Miller as Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Trust. Miller joins Reddit from Bank of America where she most recently served as SVP Technology Strategy & Design, and had been overseeing technology design and engineering delivery for the bank's information security organization.
Mindtree announced that it has achieved the Application Development Partner Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program. The Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program is designed to provide Google Cloud customers with qualified partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven success in specialized solution and service areas.
uCloudlink is continuing to strengthen its partnership with NewCore Wireless whilst simultaneously seeking new cooperation opportunities in different regions across the country. uCloudlink and NewCore Wireless' cooperation came into effect in October 2020, and will see NewCore Wireless import, market and distribute uCloudlink's mobile broadband devices in the US. The establishment of the partnership despite a slowdown in travel during COVID-19 is a testament to the widespread applications of uCloudlink's products and services, and an example of the uCloudlink's cost-effective way of global expansion.
A zero-day exploit said to have been developed by the NSA was cloned and used by Chinese government hackers on Windows systems years before the cyber-weapon was leaked online, it is claimed. Check Point put out a report on Monday digging into Chinese malware it calls Jian, and argues persuasively this particular software nasty was spawned sometime around 2014 from NSA exploit code that eventually leaked online in 2017.
HUBUC announces the launch of payment cards underpinned by MOTION CODE, a dynamic CVV technology from IDEMIA for online shopping across Europe. HUBUC is a novel embedded financial services provider that offers a number of payment capabilities, including card issuance, from a single platform, integrating the IDEMIA MOTION CODE server.
Galgus has received the CERTIFIED Passpoint seal of approval. Galgus WiFi network provides quality Internet access while collecting interesting contextual information for the infrastructure managers.
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in the legacy FTA software to install a new web shell named DEWMODE on victim networks and exfiltrating sensitive data, which was then published on a data leak website operated by the CLOP ransomware gang.
Viasat announced it is part of an elite community of commercial service providers approved to receive cyber threat intelligence through the Department of Homeland Security Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program. As an accredited ECS provider, Viasat will receive DHS-provided sensitive and classified cybersecurity threat indicators and information to defend U.S.-based public and private computer networks, including state and local governments, against unauthorized access, exploitation and data exfiltration.