Security News > 2021
Yellowbrick Data announced that Jonathan Reid has joined as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. With more than 25 years of experience in driving effective growth strategies for start-up companies, Reid will focus on accelerating the adoption of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse within enterprises and commercial companies and building strong partnerships with Yellowbrick's ecosystem of resellers and business partners.
A former CIA employee cannot get espionage charges against him dismissed on the grounds that there weren't enough Hispanic or Black individuals on the grand jury that indicted him, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty issued his ruling in the case against Joshua Schulte, finding that there was nothing illegal about a suburban grand jury in White Plains returning the indictment during the coronavirus pandemic rather than a grand jury in Manhattan that normally would have done so.
LogMeIn has announced that security and privacy veteran, Michael Oberlaender, has joined the company as its new Chief Information Security Officer. Michael will be responsible for managing and growing LogMeIn's security program, including infrastructure, applications, and overall data security for both internal systems and the company's suite of award-winning software products.
Guardicore announced that Amit Serper has joined the Guardicore Labs cyber research team as Area VP of Security Research for North America. Serper unveiled his first research with Guardicore Labs - demonstrating how the Purple Fox rootkit now propagates as a worm.
Avaya has appointed Kathleen Sullivan as Vice President to lead a newly created Commercial Segment team in North America. Sullivan is responsible for delivering cloud-focused resources for SMB, Midmarket and Enterprise customers and the partners that serve them, to further enable this large segment of new and existing customers to realize the benefits of Avaya OneCloud experience platform solutions.
Group-IB has become a member of the Dutch Cyberveilig Nederland in a bid to boost the digital resilience of the Netherlands and increase the quality and transparency of the country's cybersecurity sector. In line with this, Group-IB and Cyberveilig Nederland will work together on awareness-raising activities to render transparency to organizations with regard to cybersecurity risks that they are challenged by and the solutions that are best suited for the prevention of cyberattacks.
This prompted a switch in tactics, with the bad guys going into intelligence mode, slowly gathering information about potential targets, and exploiting the pandemic knowledge gap to spearhead increasingly sophisticated attacks. In parallel, sophisticated supply chain attacks moved out of the realm of speculation, into reality, even as organisations grappled with traditional attacks and the growing scourge of ransomware.
The Windows Sandbox and the Microsoft Defender Application Guard now launch faster in Windows 10 after installing the Insider Preview Build 21343 for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Windows Sandbox helps Windows 10 users safely run apps in an isolated desktop environment.
In a blog post filled with a passionate defense of human rights and internet privacy, Andy Yen, the CEO of secure internet provider ProtonVPN, blasted Apple for blocking its latest update and accused the tech juggernaut of helping the global spread of authoritarianism by "Giving in to tyrants." In the days following a Feb. 1 military coup that seized control of the Myanmar government, signups for ProtonVPN encrypted internet services exploded by 250 times over the previous average daily rate, Yen said.
Attackers are actively exploiting two recently-patched vulnerabilities in a popular suite of tools for WordPress websites from marketing platform Thrive Themes. Thrive Themes offers various products to help WordPress websites "Convert visitors into leads and customers." Its suite of products, called Thrive Suite, includes a lineup of Legacy Themes - tools to help change the layout and design of WordPress websites - as well as various plugins.