Security News > 2021
The Office of the Washington State Auditor on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Accellion's File Transfer Appliance service, which allows organizations to share sensitive documents with users outside their organization securely.
Insert Sigma Rules for SIEMS; a way for Security Operations to implement standardization into the daily tasks of building SIEM queries, managing logs, and threat hunting correlations. What is a Sigma rule, you may ask? A Sigma rule is a generic and open, YAML-based signature format that enables a security operations team to describe relevant log events in a flexible and standardized format.
Cymulate announced that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association and has integrated Cymulate with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. These integrations streamline the process of continuous security validation and prioritize remediation efforts, delivering operational efficiencies and better security to Microsoft customers.
Governments, banks, notaries and e-ID schemes around the world can now access multi-jurisdictional advanced and qualified remote e-signature and e-sealing services from a single source, thanks to a new partnership between Cryptomathic and Connective. Cryptomathic and Connective have combined their strong skillsets in remote signing and advanced signature workflows to address this problem head on.
IO. This is the second acquisition Rapid7 has made in the cloud security market in the past nine months, having acquired DivvyCloud, a leader in Cloud Security Posture Management this past April. Together, these acquisitions will enhance Rapid7's ability to provide a cloud native security platform to its customers and facilitate continuous management of risk and compliance across their cloud environments.
To further accelerate customers' digital transformation and customer centric initiatives, Cyber Group is announcing the hiring of Rob Palacios as its first Chief Innovation Officer. Rob Palacios has a 30+ year history of helping businesses leverage technology to gain rapid market share and build sustainable competitive advantage.
Jumio announced the appointment of three new members to its leadership team, following a landmark year which saw it reach record sales revenues, sign a number of marquee customers, make a key acquisition and realize strong returns on its 2020 channel focus. Mark Reeves, appointed as Jumio's new vice president of EMEA revenue, has more than 30 years of experience in scaling operations, building high-growth teams and disrupting industry practices across the theater.
Facebook has created a new screen in its iOS app that will urge people to allow it to continue stalking their online activities for targeted advertising. This is in response to Apple preparing to introduce a prompt that asks users whether or not they want to grant Facebook's software permission to track them when they use other apps and websites.
Megaport announced the addition of Rodney Foreman to the executive team in the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer. Foreman will lead Megaport's global sales organisation and have responsibility for all revenue generating programs.
Wind River Systems, which develops embedded system software, on Friday warned of a "Security incident" that had exposed personnel records. Alameda, Calif.-based Wind River develops software for embedded systems, such as Wind River Linux, its embedded Linux development platform.