Security News > 2021
After a year of fast growth, Living Security announced it has closed a $14 Million Series B round to continue its expansion beyond cybersecurity awareness training and further develop its human risk management platform. "During the last three years, Living Security revolutionized security awareness training programs that were boring, ineffective and implemented just to meet minimal compliance requirements," said Ashley Rose, CEO and co-founder of Living Security.
Saviynt announced that Anne Ceruti has joined the company as Head of People. "We are thrilled to have Anne join us to help support our corporate vision, drive HR strategy and delivery, and enrich our company culture," said Amit Saha, CEO, Saviynt.
Coder announced the appointment of Ketan Gangatirkar as vice president and head of engineering. "His leadership, vision and experience will be invaluable as we continue our journey developing mission-critical software for the world's foremost engineering teams."
The CMMC Accreditation Body Board of Directors announced the appointment of Matthew Travis as the CMMC-AB's first CEO effective April 1, 2021. "We are extremely thrilled to have someone as respected and accomplished as Mr. Travis lead the Accreditation Body.".
Eliminating third-party cookies will not stop companies from tracking web users, says DuckDuckGo, which claims it can help with its desktop browser extensions and mobile apps. In a blog post on Tuesday, the privacy-focused search biz explains that the much discussed plan by Google to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome by the end of 2022, and related restrictions already implemented in browsers like Brave, Firefox, and Safari, will have a limited effect on marketers' online tracking efforts.
Verton goes on to mention something even more troubling, "Half of the respondents reported they have a lack of confidence in their ability to communicate and report the financial impacts of cyber risks, with a quarter saying they do not have a cyber risk quantification technology deployed at their company." Mark Tattersall, vice president of product management at LogicGate, in his blog The Business Case for Risk Quantification, does an excellent job of defining cyber risk quantification.
That's the kind of thing that I think is particularly cool. Bill Detwiler: I'd love to drill down on that a little bit and talk about those technologies that are making robotics really possible in ways that we didn't think about just even a decade ago, because I think most people think about how we've got automation, we've had that in factories for decades.
KODA advising CTO John Suit discusses the skills and languages that are important for developers who want to build software and systems for modern robots.
The Ziggy ransomware gang announced in early February they were getting out of the cybercrime business. Threatpost reached out to the Ziggy admin and received a response: "Hello dear. Yes, I'm Ziggy ransomware developer. We decided to return victims' money because we fear law-enforcement action."
At least 30 malicious images in Docker Hub, with a collective 20 million downloads, have been used to spread cryptomining malware, according to an analysis. The malicious images have raked in around $200,000 from cryptomining, according to Aviv Sasson, researcher with Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42, who found and reported the malicious activity.