Security News > 2021
Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off an ongoing surveillance campaign directed against Colombian government institutions and private companies in the energy and metallurgical industries. The overlaps come in the form of phishing emails, which have similar topics and pretend to come from some of the same entities that were used in a February 2019 operation disclosed by QiAnXin researchers, and subdomain names used for command-and-control servers.
Contentsquare is now partnering with Microsoft Azure's cloud computing platform to accelerate its growth, drive peak performance and underpin successful innovation. Leveraging the Microsoft Azure cloud to accelerate growth.
LogRhythm announced it has acquired MistNet, a cloud-based analytics platform that delivers vast network visibility and accurate threat detection. The acquisition will allow LogRhythm to deliver intelligent, machine-learning based detection and response capabilities that incorporate network detection, user and entity behavior analytics, endpoint detection and response data, and additional MITRE ATT&CK detections to solve current and emerging security and risk problems.
VComply announced the close of a preemptive $6 million Series A in funding from Counterpart Ventures and Accel, which will help further fuel the company's go to market operations in the US. Since its founding in early 2019, VComply has built an acclaimed governance, risk and compliance platform that streamlines operations in this historically opaque sector of corporate operations, where complexity is increasing due to new privacy regulations and more businesses operating in the cloud on a global scale. "Harshvardhan Kariwala, founder and CEO of VComply, said:"Our team has been heads down on product development for the past year, continuing to develop our next-gen solution to a long-time problem of managing GRC. "While we still have lion's share of our seed round proceeds, this opportunistic round came together quickly, and will allow us to step on the accelerator to bring out solutions to a wider market."
EasyDMARC is providing the solution to prevent a global pandemic of cyber fraud. This is while EasyDMARC successfully closed an investment round led by Dutch seed investor Crosspring in November 2020, to accelerate its growth for the next 12 months.
HITRUST announced strategic organizational changes in the form of new leadership appointments as well as new and expanded responsibilities for existing executive management. The changes are aligned with HITRUST's global expansion and innovative new services aimed at helping organizations implement best-in-class risk management and compliance programs as simply and efficiently as possible.
Auth0 announced the addition of three industry leaders to its Board of Directors: Sue Barsamian, former Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software; Sameer Dholakia, former CEO of SendGrid; and Simon Parmett, former CEO of MuleSoft. Barsamian, Dholakia, and Parmett each have deep technology and SaaS industry experience and will play a key role in guiding Auth0 on its next chapter of growth.
Lacework announced the appointment of Mike Staiger as Chief Financial Officer. Staiger brings more than 25 years of executive leadership in public and venture-backed private technology companies.
TikTok has decided to boost privacy measures for its underage users, the popular video-sharing social-media company announced. TikTok's popularity is being driven by teens - the company reported in 2019 about 60 percent of its 26.5 monthly users are between the ages of 16 and 24, and these latest measures are an attempt to make the platform safer for its youngest users, according to the company.
Cisco fixed high-severity flaws tied to 67 CVEs overall, including ones found inits AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and in its RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W small business routers. A high-severity flaw in Cisco's smart Wi-Fi solution for retailers could allow a remote attacker to alter the password of any account user on affected systems.