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Following the renewal of an existing contract, IDEMIA will deliver INTERPOL's new identification system that will usher in enhanced capabilities such as higher matching accuracy and more user-friendly interfaces. This latest alliance further strengthens IDEMIA's 20-year relationship with INTERPOL. Collaboration began in 2000 when IDEMIA delivered the first Automated Fingerprint Identification System.
Inkscreen announced that the company has signed a strategic reseller agreement with Vertosoft. Under the agreement, Vertosoft will offer Inkscreen's CAPTOR mobile camera app to federal, state and local government agencies to help their employees secure business photos and other work content captured on their personal devices.
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder announced a global collaboration to co-develop OpenBuilt, a new platform designed to help securely connect fragmented construction industry supply chains. Built on Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud, OpenBuilt will offer new digital solutions to help innovate and drive more efficient, sustainable and safer construction projects.
Logz.io announced its support for the OpenSearch project, the new fork of the Elasticsearch and Kibana codebases recently unveiled by AWS. Logz.io has been working closely with AWS and several other partners to help define the future path and roadmap for the project. Logz.io is confident that the community-based nature of the project will ensure users continue to have a secure, high-quality, fully open source based search and analytics suite with a rich roadmap of new and innovative functionality.
In its April slate of patches, Microsoft rolled out fixes for a total of 114 security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day and four remote code execution bugs in Exchange Server. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which discovered and reported the flaw to Microsoft in February, linked the zero-day exploit to a threat actor named Bitter APT, which was found exploiting a similar flaw in attacks late last year.
The new financing round will enable Nestwave to further accelerate the rollout of its hybrid-signal global navigation satellite system and cellular positioning technologies. "We are grateful for the support from the European Innovation Council who, together with our current investors Sofimac and The Faktory Fund, believe in and continue to back our vision for making location accessible to low-power IoT devices," said Ambroise Popper, CEO of Nestwave.
ClearDATA announced that it has named healthcare technology veteran Sanjay Cherian as Chief Strategy Officer. With over 20 years of experience as a healthcare strategist and digital health product leader, Cherian will spearhead ClearDATA's growth strategy and aim to accelerate digital transformation across healthcare and life sciences.
A Nigerian email scammer based in New York was on Tuesday sentenced to 40 months in prison, and ordered to pay back $2.7m in stolen money. As opposed to the infamous Nigerian email scams where people pretended to be heirs to fortunes and devised various ways to get victims to send them money to access their funds, the scam run by Eke and three other Nigerian conspirators was significantly more sophisticated, the indictment states [PDF].
AI.Reverie announced that it has named Aayush Prakash, a 12-year veteran and Machine Learning and AI pioneer, as Head of Machine Learning. Prakash, whose appointment takes effect immediately, reports to AI.Reverie co-founder Daeil Kim and will be responsible for all machine learning strategy and operations at the company.
iProov announced that Paul King has joined its advisory board. King spent 27 years at Cisco, most recently as Chief Security Officer, Cisco UK. He has been an influential member of many cyber security industry bodies, including the Advisory Group on Internet Security at Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, the National Cyber Security Centre, and INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children.