Security News > 2021
IBM unveiled its highly-specialized Hybrid Cloud Build Team to support the migration and modernization of ecosystem partner products, services, and other offerings across open hybrid cloud environments. Following the successful model of the IBM Data Science and AI Elite Team and the recent introduction of the IBM AIOps Elite Team, both focused on artificial intelligence, the Hybrid Cloud Build Team concentrates on helping partners update their workloads for deployment on premises, in the cloud, or any environment of their choosing.
Electronic voting machine maker Smartmatic has sued Fox News, three of its hosts, and two of Donald Trump's loyalists - Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell - for an eye-popping $2.7bn in defamation damages over the false claims it stole the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. The voting tech biz, in its court filing, said Fox News broadcast entirely bogus claims that Smartmatic's devices were engineered to secretly swing vote counts in Biden's favor in US states where the results were close.
To help eliminate reliance on such sole-sourced, expensive and proprietary solutions for deterministic communications, Microchip announced its SparX-5i family of Ethernet switches - a single-chip, IEEE standards-based solution that offers the industry's most complete TSN feature set. The SparX-5i family supports the key TSN IEEE standards needed for a complete real-time communication solution.
Zoom announced the general availability of Zoom Rooms innovations that will help organizations safely re-enter the office and sustain an 'everywhere workforce'. Pair a Zoom Room with your mobile device: Pair your iOS or Android mobile client to a Zoom Room, easily join meetings on the Zoom Rooms directly from your client and your mobile client is automatically placed in companion mode during the meeting.
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the expansion of its RA4 Series microcontrollers with 12 new RA4M2 Group MCUs. The highly power-efficient RA4M2 Group offer a market-leading operating current of only 80 µA/MHz in active mode, and low standby current of 0.7 mA. Even with these leading specifications, the new devices have an extremely fast wakeup time from standby of 30 µs. With operating frequencies up to 100 MHz, the RA4M2 MCUs are ideal for performance hungry, low power applications such as industrial and IoT edge devices.
Ridge Security announces new capabilities in RidgeBot that combat ransomware. RidgeBot couples ethical hacking techniques with AI-driven, decision-making algorithms to help identify and validate weak credentials and frequently exploited vulnerabilities, in order to help minimize damage from simple or sophisticated, extortion-encryption attacks such as ransomware attacks.
Unbound Security announced the launch of Unbound MPC Labs, a research initiative to advance the state of the art of multiparty computation research with commercial applications. Five years after the emergence of MPC into the practical realm of business, the initiative brings together MPC research, survey papers and videos from members to share and educate the community on the MPC research carried out by Unbound and its members.
Canopy announced the release of new features that reduce costs and increase the speed and accuracy of reviewing protected spreadsheet and tabular data. New features include spreadsheet mapping, table mapping, and automated column matching.
The Linux Foundation announced that it will launch an open source industry collaboration focused on enabling a converged cellular core network stack, starting with the Magma open source software platform. Magma features an access-agnostic mobile packet core, advanced network automation and management tools, and the ability to integrate with existing LTE networks with use cases across both virtual and container Network Functions including fixed wireless access, carrier Wi-Fi, private LTE and 5G, network expansion, and mobile broadband.
With the launch of the Access 4.0 platform, developed in collaboration with Reply, Deutsche Telekom is breaking new ground in the construction and provision of networks. With the disaggregation and virtualisation of access networks based on cloud-native architectures and open source code, Deutsche Telekom is introducing a cost-efficient, easy-to-operate and scalable platform.