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TrustGrid announced a new use case for its platform to provide citizens with a secure digital vaccine passport that can be stored on their smartphone. Designed using distributed ledger technology, TrustGrid is an opt-in system where citizens can authenticate their identity and vaccination status and receive a QR code to show as proof of vaccination.
AttackForge has announced AttackForge Core - the latest addition to the AttackForge family of products. "With the launch of AttackForge Core, we now have a pentest management solution for every cybersecurity team - from freelancers & bug bounty hunters to consultancies & MSSPs and multi-national enterprises," said Stas Filshtinskiy, Co-Founder of AttackForge.
Accenture and SAP are expanding their decades-long partnership to help companies embed sustainability across the full spectrum of their business operations - from strategy to execution - to unlock new value throughout their enterprises and in their value and supply chains. Combining SAP technology with Accenture's Sustainability Services and broad industry knowledge, the partners are expanding their alliance to jointly create new solutions that can empower companies to accelerate their progress on fully de-carbonizing their supply chains and capture their share of the projected $4.5 trillion economic growth that the circular economy could bring.
The new privacy feature, dubbed "App Tracking Transparency," rolled out Monday as part of an update to the operating system powering the iPhone and iPad. The anti-tracking shield included in iOS 14.5 arrives after a seven-month delay during which Apple and Facebook attacked each other's business models and motives for decisions that affect billions of people around the world. Apple takes a 15% to 30% cut on most payments processed through an iPhone app.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota apologized to the maintainers of Linux Kernel Project on Saturday for intentionally including vulnerabilities in the project's code, which led to the school being banned from contributing to the open-source project in the future. The project aimed to deliberately add use-after-free vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel in the name of security research, apparently in an attempt to highlight how potentially malicious code could sneak past the approval process, and as a consequence, suggest ways to improve the security of the patching process.
A newly identified NTLM relay attack abuses a remote procedure call vulnerability to enable elevation of privilege, researchers from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne reveal. The researchers used a DCOM client that was instructed to connect to a RPC server, operation that involved two NTLM authentications, one without the "Sign flag" being set, and also leveraged the fact that the DCOM activation service can be abused to trigger RPC authentication.
N-able announced it has integrated N-able N-central with Microsoft Intune, a component of Microsoft 365 Business Premium, helping MSPs manage and protect their clients' apps and devices. Intune enables MSPs to securely manage workstations and mobile devices to help configure application and app protection policies.
ACRE announced the acquisition of TDS based in Dublin, Ireland. TDS provides cloud-based workspace solutions that will complement the existing ACRE portfolio including the Vanderbilt, RS2, and Open Options brands.
Founded in 2012 by former U.S. intelligence community AI and high-volume data processing experts, Koverse is a 16-person, Seattle-based company that delivers scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions to federal and commercial customers. Koverse solves one of the most difficult and time-consuming challenges in developing AI tools: organizing structured and unstructured data from multiple sources based on a user's individual attributes and permissions.
NET Framework versions signed using the legacy and insecure Secure Hash Algorithm 1 will reach end of support next year. NET Framework 4.5.2, 4.6, and 4.6.1 will reach end of support on April 26, 2022," said Jamshed Damkewala,.