Security News > 2021
Businesses and consumers are relying on the voice call more than ever during the pandemic with voice traffic up 184% in 2020 compared to 2019, according to a Hiya report. Nearly 40% of all respondents reported losing money to phone scams in 2020 - with an average of $182 per person.
One such document is the new EU Cybersecurity Strategy, which mentions quantum computing and encryption as key technologies for achieving resilience, technological sovereignty and leadership. Quantum technology will enable a huge leap forward in many branches of industry, as it can efficiently resolve problems technologies of today are not able to provide a solution for.
25.9 million business account credentials and over 543 million breach assets tied to employees in the Fortune 1000 are readily available on the criminal underground, SpyCloud reveals. Regardless of security guidelines that warn against such behavior, many employees, even at the executive level, are using corporate credentials as personal logins for other accounts.
As the pandemic continues to challenge organizations worldwide, the role of chief financial officers has moved further beyond "Economic guardians" of the enterprise to "Architects of business value" and "Catalysts of digital strategies," with 72% of CFOs reporting that they have the final say on the appropriate technology direction of the enterprise, according to a research from Accenture. "The role of the CFO has further evolved beyond serving as the finance lead to becoming a 'digital steward' of their organization. Increasingly, CFOs are focused on collecting and interpreting data for key business decisions and enabling strategy beyond the borders of the finance function," said Christian Campagna, Ph.D., senior managing director and global lead of the CFO & Enterprise Value practice at Accenture.
Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 56 flaws, including a critical vulnerability that's known to be actively exploited in the wild. The most critical of the flaws is a Windows Win32k privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers with access to a target system to run malicious code with elevated permissions.
A previously known Windows remote access Trojan with credential-stealing capabilities has now expanded its scope to set its sights on users of Android devices to further the attacker's espionage motives. "The developers of LodaRAT have added Android as a targeted platform," Cisco Talos researchers said in a Tuesday analysis.
SpyCloud announced it has added a new password filter feature to SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian. SpyCloud Active Directory Guardian now automatically prevents employees from setting risky passwords using a password filter.
This unique integration will enable customers to feed the results of their mobile application security testing from the NowSecure platform into ThreadFix-a platform powered by Denim Group to support security processes to keep pace with modern development cycles. Together, Denim Group and NowSecure are now providing enterprises and organizations with a scalable, unified workflow for ingesting security test data from any tool in the pipeline, prioritizing vulnerabilities and driving the remediation process.
Bitglass announced additional technical integrations between its platform and SD-WAN providers. Specifically, organizations can now use Bitglass to secure traffic coming from branch locations via Citrix, Arista Networks, Aviatrix, and Sophos.
Google Cloud and Sigfox announced that the leading global 0G network and IoT platform services provider, has partnered with Google Cloud, to scale its cloud infrastructure and extend its IoT services portfolio. Google Cloud will also enable faster improvements to Sigfox's connectivity, geolocation, and other value-added services towards ultra-low-cost and ultra-low-power IoT solutions.