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Twitter accidentally sends suspicious emails asking to confirm accounts
2021-04-23 05:44

Twitter caused quite the panic Thursday night when they accidentally sent emails asking users to confirm their accounts, which looked suspiciously like a phishing attack. These emails began around 10 PM EST, with numerous Twitter accounts operated by BleepingComputer and its writers receiving the emails.

Security research project: The easiest way to get “experience” and land a job in cybersecurity
2021-04-23 05:30

As a simple illustration, if you want to examine some opportunistic attackers, one useful technique is to search for a hot topic and add phrases like "Free download" to the search. The bigger point here is that finding examples like this did not require any sophistication beyond doing 15 minutes of creative searching from my research laptop while sitting in bed.

Transitioning to a SASE architecture
2021-04-23 05:00

There are several key points when contemplating a change in your security architecture. These devices need to be smarter and work seamlessly with cloud-based security to create a Secure Access Service Edge architecture.

New infosec products of the week: April 23, 2021
2021-04-23 04:35

DataLocker SafeConsole Suites add key endpoint security and enterprise support features. DataLocker announced the release of two new suites, the SafeConsole Professional Suite and the SafeConsole Enterprise Suite.

What IT leaders are prioritizing in network security investments?
2021-04-23 04:30

Five major areas for EMEA network security investments Automation - 21 percent of organizations are investing in automating policy management to safeguard against inefficient and risky functions. Security-development misalignment - 73 percent of IT leaders admit their application development and network security operations teams are not well aligned.

COVID-19 creates a boom in biometric adoption
2021-04-23 04:00

COVID-19 has accelerated the shift to digital, creating a boom in biometric adoption. Biometric deployment isn't without challenges.

Deep Instinct Raises $100 Million in Series D Funding Round
2021-04-23 03:46

Deep Instinct, a New York-based company that provides threat protection products powered by deep learning, on Thursday announced that it has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round. The latest funding round, which brings the total raised by Deep Instinct to $200 million, was led by BlackRock, with participation from Untitled Investments, The Tudor Group, Anne Wojcicki, Millennium, Unbound, Coatue Management, and others.

Trends and technologies that are helping supply chains respond, recover and thrive during pandemic
2021-04-23 03:30

Nearly half of supply chain leaders surveyed have dramatically accelerated spending on digital technologies to make their operations more responsive and forward-looking during the pandemic, according to an industry report released by MHI and Deloitte. 83% of respondents believe digital supply chains will be the predominant model within just five years - 22% believe they are now.

Remote work increasing the growth rate of the EDR market
2021-04-23 03:00

The Transparency Market Research team predicts the global endpoint detection and response market to expand at a CAGR of ~21 percent during the forecast period of 2020-2030. The coming years are a boon for the endpoint detection and response market as the shift to digital technologies and mechanisms is increasing rapidly across the globe.

Zerto data protection offers backup and disaster recovery for hybrid and native AWS deployments
2021-04-23 01:30

From backup and disaster recovery for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services, disaster recovery across AWS Regions or Availability Zones, and new backup capabilities for AWS focused on cost optimization and security to safeguard companies from malicious intent. Zerto backup and disaster recovery for Amazon EKS is a new offering that integrates backup and disaster recovery into the application deployment lifecycle for Amazon EKS. Organizations can now easily protect, recover, and move any Kubernetes application and its persistent data for a native, data protection as code experience.