Security News > 2021
With this acquisition, SentinelOne will be able to ingest, correlate, search, and action data from any source, delivering the industry's most advanced integrated XDR platform for realtime threat mitigation across the enterprise and cloud. Through this acquisition, SentinelOne sets the bar for the XDR market and solves one of the biggest challenges in delivering a fully integrated XDR platform: ingesting and actioning all operational data in realtime from a security-first perspective.
Tenable announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alsid SAS. Alsid for Active Directory is a Software as a Service solution with an on-premises deployment option that monitors the security of Active Directory in real time. "We're impressed with the insights that Alsid brings to enterprise customers and look forward to working with the Alsid team to add this critical element to Cyber Exposure and risk management."
AUTOCRYPT raised nearly $13 million in a Series A funding round, bringing the total to $15M raised in 2020. Backers included major Korean investors KB Investment, Pathfinder H, Ulmus Investment, Korea Asset, Hyundai Venture Investment Corp., and IBK. Led by CEO and co-Founder, Daniel ES Kim, AUTOCRYPT has garnered the attention of the automotive industry, providing end-to-end vehicle security for connected and autonomous vehicles and surrounding infrastructure.
The US Dept of Justice will continue pushing for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The decision by prosecutors, working under President Joe Biden, to press on also ignores an appeal made at the start of the week by a coalition of civil-liberties and human-rights groups, who urged the new commander-in-chief to drop the effort to drag Assange to America to face trial after obtaining and distributing classified material, most notably a huge cache of American military and diplomatic documents.
Alteryx announced the appointment of Suresh Vittal as chief product officer. Vittal will report directly to Mark Anderson, chief executive officer, and will lead the Product Management, Engineering and Development organizations.
Toshiba announces that it led all HDD companies in year-on-year Nearline HDD average capacity growth in 2020. Toshiba has done an admirable job of leveraging its industry-first 9-disk helium design to introduce competitive Nearline HDD products in a timely fashion.
Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week's news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town's water supply was understandably front-page material. "A supervisor working remotely saw the concentration being changed on his computer screen and immediately reverted it, Gualtieri said. City officials on Monday emphasized that several other safeguards are in place to prevent contaminated water from entering the water supply and said they've disabled the remote-access system used in the attack."
French health insurance company Mutuelle Nationale des Hospitaliers has suffered a ransomware attack that has severely disrupted the company's operations. MNH is the first mutual insurance company in France to provide health insurance services, and plans focused on the health sector.
SAP is warning of a critical vulnerability in its SAP Commerce platform for e-commerce businesses. Drools is an engine that makes up the rules engine for SAP Commerce.
The ransomware gang behind an attack on videogame developer CD Projekt Red may have made good on its promise to auction off the company's data - including source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and an unreleased version of the Witcher 3. "The user claimed to have full source codes for various games including Thronebreaker, Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3 and the undeclared Witcher 3 RTX," Merritt said.