Security News > 2021

Ivanti announced Ivanti Neurons for IT Service Management and Ivanti Neurons for IT Asset Management, delivering on its mission to enable the everywhere workplace. Ivanti Neurons for ITSM empowers service desk analysts and end users with "Interactive neurons" for pre-ticket automation, resulting in reduced ticket volumes into the service desk, and post-ticket automation for higher accuracy, improved mean time to remediation and optimal personalized experiences.

Microsoft is backporting their upcoming Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar feature to Windows 10 20H2 and Windows 10 21H1, allowing far more people to access the new feature. In January, Microsoft began testing a new taskbar news feed feature called 'News and Interests' that builds an interest profile for a user and displays stories based upon those interests.

N-able announced a collaboration with DNSFilter to integrate its cloud-based security solution with N-able N-central and RMM, providing MSPs with threat protection and content filtering. The new embedded capabilities will help give N-able partners robust protection against these types of threats, including phishing, ransomware, and zero day social engineering attacks.

The security research and advisory team at TAG Cyber has published a new article in its TAG Cyber Security Quarterly that makes the point that software bill of materials usage is long overdue. "If food items on the supermarket shelf can list their ingredients, then it makes perfect sense that software driving critical business and infrastructure functions should do the same," explained Stan Quintana, analyst at TAG Cyber and former head of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services at AT&T. What is an SBOM. The concept of an SBOM is quite simple: It is a listing of the components used in the code base for some piece of software.

Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud's leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for the future. While AI projects have been deployed by many companies in "Islands" across the plant floor, manufacturers have struggled to implement AI at scale across their global operations.

Smith Micro Software announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Avast's Family Safety Mobile business. With this acquisition, Smith Micro obtains Avast's portfolio of mobile family safety services including location features, content filtering and screen time management, cementing Smith Micro as a market leader in delivering mobile family safety software solutions to wireless carriers.

Entrust announced that it has acquired WorldReach Software, a Canadian company that helps governments and travel service providers create seamless traveler experiences through the digital transformation of the trusted identification process for immigration and border management programs. Ottawa-based WorldReach was founded in 1998 and its over 30 employees have joined Entrust with the acquisition, including founder and CEO, Gordon Wilson, who continues to lead WorldReach as an Entrust business.

A spear-phishing attack operated by a North Korean threat actor targeting its southern counterpart has been found to conceal its malicious code within a bitmap image file to drop a remote access trojan capable of stealing sensitive information. Attributing the attack to the Lazarus Group based on similarities to prior tactics adopted by the adversary, researchers from Malwarebytes said the phishing campaign started by distributing emails laced with a malicious document that it identified on April 13.

Druva announced a $147 million investment as the company rapidly scales in response to accelerated demand for its platform. As organizations quickly move workloads to cloud environments, adopt SaaS solutions, and combat rising cyber threats, this new investment will fuel continued expansion of Druva Cloud Platform to meet today's unprecedented needs, and extend the company's industry leadership as it defines tomorrow's data protection.

The US government's response groups for dealing with recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities have reached the end of the road. In a statement on Monday, US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger said the two Unified Coordination Groups formed in January and March respectively will be disbanded. The SolarWinds incident, disclosed last December and subsequently attributed to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, involved the hacking of SolarWinds' Orion IT management platform and is believed to have compromised at least nine federal agencies and about 100 private sector organizations.