Security News > 2021
ID R&D announced that its passive facial liveness detection product, IDLive Face, now runs on the NVIDIA Jetson XavierNX. The small form factor system-on-module supports multiple AI neural networks running in parallel and trillions of operations per second, resulting in faster processing and lower hardware costs when deploying face biometrics with liveness detection on embedded IoT and edge computing systems. Support for IDLive Face on Jetson Xavier NX mitigates size, power, and cost constraints that have limited the ability to deploy and scale face biometrics in standalone devices.
This agreement brings Semafone into the Avaya ecosystem of alliances, with the goal of helping contact center customers solve the complex security and compliance challenges faced as they embrace a work from anywhere model. The integration of Semafone's, DevConnect certified, secure payment technology with Avaya OneCloud enterprise Session Border Controller, enables Cardprotect Voice+ to be deployed and used across all global Avaya OneCloud contact center solutions.
Red Hat announced a collaboration with NEC Corporation to deliver 5G solutions built on Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform. With NEC's 5G core network solutions running on Red Hat OpenShift, organizations will be able to capitalize on 5G across a broad set of use cases including 5G core, 5G radio access networks, edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and more, helping them create new revenue opportunities.
Deployed on NVIDIA computing platforms, the software enables enterprises to accelerate data pipelines and push the performance boundaries of data and machine learning workflows to drive faster AI adoption and deliver better business outcomes, without changing any code. With the release earlier this year of Applied ML Prototypes in CDP and the power of NVIDIA computing, customers like the Internal Revenue Service and the Office for National Statistics UK can not only jumpstart fully packaged ML use cases, but also accelerate data processing and model training at a lower cost across any on-premises, public cloud, or hybrid cloud deployment.
Auth0 announced that Lucy McGrath has been appointed as the company's first Vice President of Privacy. McGrath is an international data privacy lawyer and will be responsible for enabling Auth0 and its customers to continue to solve dynamic privacy challenges and protect the users and other humans impacted by their work.
Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server - the same systems that have been besieged by attacks on four separate bugs in the email software over the past month.
AttackIQ announced that Ross Brewer has been promoted to General Manager and Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific Japan regions. Today, more than 9,000 students in 100 countries across EMEA and APJ are continuing their cybersecurity education with AttackIQ Academy.
As has become normal, Google did not provide any other details on the attacks or provide any IOCs to help organizations find signs of infection. So far in 2021, Google has rushed out fixes for at least three separate in-the-wild zero-day attacks.
Fluree has announced the addition of Ric Elert to the company's Board of Directors. Elert's strong track record of proven technology and business growth acumen will usher Fluree into a new phase of growth.
Capcom has released a final update about the ransomware attack it suffered last year, detailing how the hackers gained access to the network, compromised devices, and stole personal information belonging to thousands of individuals. In early November 2020, Ragnar Locker ransomware hit the Japanese game developer and publisher, forcing Capcom to shut down portions of their network.