Security News > 2021

As the provider of a Credential Service, approved by Kantara Initiative, Neustar can more effectively serve the federal market and address digital identity proofing and authentication service requirements with accurate, frictionless identity verification. "From coordinating complex federal initiatives, like contact tracing, to fielding daily service calls involving the transfer of personal and financial information, it is critical that governments have the proper tools in place to verify the identity of the person on the other end of the interaction with confidence, speed and accuracy," said Tom McNeal, vice president of partner channel and public sector for Neustar.

CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Humio. Joining forces with Humio's best-in-class data ingestion and analytics platform will enable CrowdStrike to provide deep, contextual index-free XDR at a speed and scale that no other vendor can match.

Backblaze announced the recent appointment of Jocelyn Carter-Miller, Barbara Nelson, and Rafael Torres to its Board of Directors. "We are very excited to be welcoming Jocelyn, Barbara, and Rafael to our Board of Directors. We conducted an extensive search, and believe that each of our highly-referred new board members brings the right mix of industry experience and skills to help us navigate the road ahead," said Gleb Budman, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Backblaze.

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CloudSense announced the appointment of two new executives to its leadership team as the company prepares for further growth in FY2022. Jonathan joins CloudSense from the ION Group where he was Chief Professional Services Officer for the Corporates group spanning the Commodities and Treasury sectors.

Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there's no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or customer data. The disclosure builds upon an earlier update on December 31, 2020, that uncovered a compromise of its own network to view source code related to its products and services.

One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company's latest generation of Macs powered by its own processors. While the transition to Apple silicon has necessitated developers to build new versions of their apps to ensure better performance and compatibility, malware authors are now undertaking similar steps to build malware that are capable of executing natively on Apple's new M1 systems, according to macOS Security researcher Patrick Wardle.

U.S. law enforcement arrested six "Ringleaders" of a Ghana-based cybercriminal enterprise, who had allegedly launched a slew of money-stealing scams dating back to 2013 that included romance scams, business email compromise attacks and fraud. While the six arrested were allegedly involved with the criminal enterprise based in Ghana, they were located across the U.S. and targeted individuals and businesses in the U.S. Scams Relating to Romance, COVID-19 Relief.

Apple released its 2021 Platform Security guide, Thursday, outlining its current and year-ahead agenda for its device hardware, software and silicon security. Previous Platform Security updates have taken a piecemeal approach to address Apple's security universe, said Rich Mogull, analyst and CEO with Securosis.

The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021) will be held online in June. We just published the call for papers.