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The highest-ranked officer in India's armed forces has admitted that China has cyber-war capabilities that can overwhelm his nation's defenses and suggested that only cross-forces collaboration will get India to parity with its giant neighbor. General Bipin Rawat, a four-star general and since 2020 the first to hold a new role of chief of defense staff, offered that assessment yesterday in a talk hosted by Indian think tank the Vivekananda International Foundation.

The average value of fraudulent purchase attempts increased 69% in 2020, a recent Sift report reveals. Several business categories were hit by both major increases in attempted fraud rates and increases in the value of those fraudulent purchases, with lodging merchants, omnichannel retailers, digital wallets, and professional marketplace companies becoming targets for online theft amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The construction industry may not appear to be an obvious target for cybercrime, but it garners unwanted online attention just like other sectors. Over half of all construction executives believe their firms will be hit in the future, yet worryingly, 68% of firms have no cybersecurity measures in place.

In 2020, the most common incidents that financial organizations suffered regarding data in the cloud were phishing attacks, targeted attacks on cloud infrastructure and ransomware, Netwrix reveals. The report also revealed that 59% of financial orgs consider understaffed IT and security teams to be the major reason they struggle to secure data in the cloud.

nFront Weak Password Scanner is available for free to companies worldwide allowing them to scan their Active Directory against over 700 million breached passwords in less than one second. While other password scanning tools only show the number of breached passwords, the nFront tool reveals the exact usernames related to each compromised employee password.

Perimeter 81 announced that it has launched its Firewall as a Service offering, Network Traffic Control. Perimeter 81's NTC brings FWaaS-level security to customers' cloud network perimeter and builds upon Perimeter 81's holistic SASE offering, which includes Zero Trust Network Access, Zero Trust Application Access, and DNS Filtering capabilities.

Intel launched its performance data center platform optimized to power the industry's broadest range of workloads - from the cloud to the network to the intelligent edge. New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are the foundation of Intel's data center platform, enabling customers to capitalize on some of the most significant business opportunities today by leveraging the power of AI. New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver a significant performance increase compared with the prior generation, with an average 46% improvement on popular data center workloads.

Fortanix announced that its technology is powering new applications of confidential computing. Confidential computing protects applications and the sensitive data they process from unauthorized access and tampering at runtime, extending the security already in place for data at-rest and in-motion across the network.

The new solution will help increase visibility, enable compliance and enhance security for containerized applications from build to production in public cloud and on-premises environments. The solution provides continuous cloud-native security and compliance to better secure applications and data wherever they live.

OpenNebula 6.0 "Mutara" is the first stable release of the OpenNebula 6 series, laying the groundwork for the completely integrated and automated enterprise edge cloud. The powerful distributed cloud architecture enabled by OpenNebula 6.0, and developed under the auspices of the ONEedge innovation project, is composed of edge clusters that can run any workload-both virtual machines and containers-on any resource-bare metal or virtualized-anywhere-on-premises and on public cloud providers.