Security News

China's Digital Yuan not aimed at challenging US dollar, says former People’s Bank governor
2021-05-25 05:59

A former governor of the People's Bank of China has given a speech in which he suggested that China's Digital Yuan is not intended to increase China's influence over global financial systems. An unauthorised translation of the speech by Chinese journalist Zichen Wang reports that Zhou said China's digital currency "Is mainly targeted on the modernization of the domestic payment system, keeping pace with the digital economy and the Internet era, improving efficiency, and reducing costs, especially for the retail payment system".

Cellebrite Pathfinder enables investigative units to process digital data
2021-05-20 01:15

Cellebrite launched the latest version of Cellebrite Pathfinder, its flagship investigative analytics solution achieving significant milestones in data analysis, enterprise readiness, scalability and process performance. Pathfinder uses AI and machine learning to enable investigative units to process digital data efficiently and effectively with advanced filtering, categorization, tagging and analyzing capabilities.

Western Digital expands Purple Pro product line for growing AI-enabled workloads
2021-05-19 23:00

Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers. The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.

Australian Federal Police hiring digital evidence retrieval specialists: Being a very good boy and paws required
2021-05-19 07:58

Australia's Federal Police is getting more help from some very good boys with four paws, wagging tails, and the ability to sniff out tech equipment with their highly sensitive noses. The dogs can sniff out things like USB sticks or SIM cards, a task difficult for humans seeing as the devices are small and easily hidden.

Exterro collaborates with Microsoft to deliver digital forensics platform for law enforcement agencies
2021-05-18 23:45

Exterro announced they have teamed up with Microsoft to deliver a cloud-based digital forensics platform for law enforcement agencies worldwide. Designed to counter rising data volumes, data complexity and resource constraints, the combination of Exterro's Forensic Toolkit Lab on Microsoft Azure delivers exponentially improved forensic readiness, collaboration, and processing of data at scale designed to provide faster time to justice.

SecurID’s new capabilities help businesses develop resilience in digital era
2021-05-18 22:30

SecurID announced at RSA Conference 2021 that it will debut the key capabilities that modern enterprises need to cultivate greater resilience, meet today's business needs, and prepare for tomorrow's disruptions. Cultivating resilience: Each of the following trends can help businesses develop resilience and adapt to new challenges: SecurID ensures that businesses can enable secure work-from-anywhere and cater to mobile users, customers, and workforces.

Consumers aware of travel cyber risks, still not putting their digital wellness first
2021-05-13 03:30

While 68% of U.S. consumers report that they are connected to more devices and digital activity since the start of the pandemic, roughly half have implemented additional levels of security protection. "As travel becomes an actual possibility for people once again, it's an opportunity to remember just how important maintaining your digital wellness and security is outside the home," said Judith Bitterli, SVP of McAfee Consumer Marketing.

IBM announces hybrid cloud and AI capabilities to boost digital transformation
2021-05-12 00:30

With the launch of AutoSQL, IBM Cloud Pak for Data now includes the highest-performing cloud data warehouse on the market that can run seamlessly across any hybrid multi-cloud environment - including private clouds, on-premises and any public cloud. IBM Mono2Micro uses AI developed by IBM Research to analyze large enterprise applications and provide recommendations on how to best adapt them for the move to cloud.

Everbridge acquires xMatters to transform digital service resilience
2021-05-10 22:30

Everbridge announced the completion of its acquisition of xMatters, a provider of IT Service Operations, Cybersecurity and DevOps incident response management. On April 6, 2021, Everbridge announced a definitive agreement between the parties pursuant to which Everbridge would acquire all of the outstanding equity of xMatters.

Kerv acquires cloudThing to further enhance its cloud and digital credentials
2021-05-06 23:30

Whilst continuing its focus on strong and sustainable organic growth, Kerv will also look at acquiring businesses which add new capabilities to further enhance its cloud and digital credentials and/or bring new vertical opportunities. "Explaining the rationale behind the deal, Alastair Mills, executive chairman at Kerv, said:"This acquisition is a significant step for Kerv and a major investment in the rapidly growing digital transformation market.