Security News > 2021
mGage, a Vivial company, is mobile messaging solution allowing enterprise clients across a diverse range of end-markets to effectively engage with their customers through all mobile channels for a variety of use cases. mGage serves its customers through its cloud-based enterprise mobile messaging platform Communicate Pro, their API solution Connect, as well as Omnichannel mobile messaging offering such as SMS, MMS and RCS. Communicate Pro is mGage's cloud-based, enterprise-level messaging platform that connects brands with their customers through all major mobile messaging channels.
CoreView announced that Ed Peek has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. Peek takes on a critical leadership role overseeing CoreView's global sales and customer success functions.
US security consultancy Red Canary says it's found MacOS malware written specifically for the shiny new M1 silicon that Apple created to power its post-Intel Macs. Red Canary has named the malware "Silver Sparrow" and says it had found its way onto almost 30,000 MacOS devices as of February 17th. Red Canary's post says it has analysed two samples of the malware, one targeting x86 and the other targeting X86 and Apple's own M1 silicon.
Ping Identity welcomed Peter Burke as the new Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Burke will drive product strategy and development across all Ping solutions, helping to further accelerate identity security and make access management simple for businesses and the consumers they serve.
Windows 10 21H2 will be released in the fall of 2021 after Windows 10 21H1 is released in the spring followed by Windows 10X. Codenamed "Sun Valley." Windows 10 21H2 will be a full-featured update that includes numerous new features and improvements for the Start Menu, Taskbar, Action Center, and more, which we have outlined below. Since Windows 10 version 21H1 will be a minor release, native support for DNS over HTTPS will likely be introduced with Windows 10 Sun Valley update.
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for. Onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites.
Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user's sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution. The findings come from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro's analysis of the Android version of the app, which allows users to share or transfer files between devices.
Canadian undergraduate research university Lakehead has been dealing with a cyberattack that forced the institution earlier this week to cut off access to its servers. In a communication on Thursday, Lakehead University provided some details about the attack saying that it was aimed at its file share servers.
Microsoft is adding support for sending emails via alias email addresses from the Outlook for Windows email client. "Send email from a proxy email address or account alias rather than your primary email address," Microsoft says on the planned feature's Microsoft 365 roadmap entry.
Threat actors are using Google Alerts to promote a fake Adobe Flash Player updater that installs other unwanted programs on unsuspecting users' computers. This past week, BleepingComputer has been monitoring fake stories being indexed by Google and pushed out by Google Alerts.