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The CV90 is a family of tracked combat vehicles first developed in the 1980s to cope with the extreme Nordic environments. Built around Clavister's cOS core platform - the company's internally developed operating software - the firewall solution has been augmented based on NATO and BAE Systems requirements.
Caveonix announces availability of its flagship product, Caveonix Cloud, on Amazon Web Services' AWS Marketplace. Caveonix Cloud is uniquely positioned to guide customers through their cloud migration efforts by providing visibility, Compliance and Security posture management, and Cloud Workload Protection across multi-cloud deployments via a unified console.
Cisco has rolled out fixes for multiple critical vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Small Business routers that could potentially allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user on an affected device. The flaws - tracked from CVE-2021-1289 through CVE-2021-1295 - impact RV160, RV160W, RV260, RV260P, and RV260W VPN routers running a firmware release earlier than Release 1.0.01.02.
IBM announced in-kind grants valued at $3 million to help strengthen cybersecurity in schools. These grants will be awarded to six school districts in the United States to sponsor teams of IBMers to help them proactively prepare for and respond to cyberattacks.
The Dronecode Foundation announced three new directors elected to its Board of Directors. "I am honored to be appointed to the board of the Dronecode Foundation. We are at an exciting inflection point in the history of flight, and the Dronecode Foundation is changing how the world codes, trains, simulates, certifies, and flies both piloted and autonomous drones," said Paul Stubbs, Director of AI & Innovation Marketing for Microsoft Business AI team.
CloudBees announced the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO. DeWitt is a distinguished technology executive who's guided multi-billion-dollar businesses through IPO and strategic growth initiatives. Co-founder and former CEO Sacha Labourey will remain very involved at CloudBees as chief strategy officer.
Backblaze announced the appointments of Frank Patchel as Chief Financial Officer, and Tom MacMitchell as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, to bolster company initiatives and drive growth in the year ahead and beyond. "We are excited to welcome Frank and Tom to our management team as we focus on the opportunity ahead of us," said Gleb Budman, CEO of Backblaze.
Researchers are warning a new botnet is recycling the Mirai malware framework and is now targeting Android devices in order to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. The botnet propagates through the Android Debug Bridge interface.
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed three severe security vulnerabilities impacting SolarWinds products, the most severe of which could have been exploited to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges. Two of the flaws were identified in the SolarWinds Orion Platform, while a third separate weakness was found in the company's Serv-U FTP server for Windows, said cybersecurity firm Trustwave in a technical analysis.
High-performance computing clusters belonging to university networks as well as servers associated with government agencies, endpoint security vendors, and internet service providers have been targeted by a newly discovered backdoor that gives attackers the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the systems remotely. Cybersecurity firm ESET named the malware "Kobalos" - a nod to a "Mischievous creature" of the same name from Greek mythology - for its "Tiny code size and many tricks."