Security News

Kingston Digital launches the 128GB DataTraveler 2000 encrypted USB flash drive
2020-09-16 00:15

Kingston Digital announces the availability of the 128GB DataTraveler 2000 encrypted USB flash drive. DataTraveler 2000 features an alphanumeric keypad that allows users to lock the drive with a word or number combination for an easy-to-use PIN, providing an extra layer of protection.

Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat to accelerate digital transformation across the oil and gas industry
2020-09-10 00:00

Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat, announced today a major collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. Through the agreement with IBM and Red Hat, Schlumberger has committed to the exclusive use of Red Hat OpenShift.

Signifyd, CTI Digital and supercharged help merchants provide abuse and fraud protection
2020-09-08 23:30

Signifyd, CTI Digital and supercharged commerce announced a partnership that combines the digital experience of two of Europe's premiere agencies with Signifyd's superior fraud and abuse prevention expertise. The combination of CTI Digital and supercharged creates an agency ecosystem with incredible breadth to serve ecommerce, not-for-profit organizations, trade bodies, public sector agencies, higher education providers, construction businesses, professional services companies and leisure organisations.

Western Digital launches ArmorLock Security Platform for today’s diverse data security needs
2020-09-07 01:30

Underscoring its mission to enable the world to solve its biggest data challenges by building a data infrastructure with next-gen security, Western Digital introduced the ArmorLock Security Platform. A data encryption platform that rethinks how data security should be done, the ArmorLock Security Platform was created to help with the diverse security demands of data-centric and content-critical storage use cases in industries as varied as finance, government, healthcare, IT enterprise, legal, and media and entertainment.

COVID-19 impact on digital transformation, cloud and security strategies
2020-08-24 04:00

Half a year into the shutdown, companies are still playing catch up to optimize their remote work experience, according to Infoblox. Organizations are still building out their IT infrastructure and security controls to optimize remote work.

Physical locks are less hackable than digital locks, right? Maybe not: Boffins break in with a microphone
2020-08-21 09:31

The paper presents "SpiKey, a novel attack that utilizes a smartphone microphone to capture the sound of key insertion/withdrawal to infer the shape of the key, i.e., cut depths that form the 'secret' of the key, solely by the captured acoustic signal." The researchers explained that there will be more than one "Candidate keys" rather than a single one that fits the pattern, but that in the case of the particular six-pin key analysed, "SpiKey guarantees reducing more than 94 per cent of keys to less than 10 candidate keys" with three candidates being "The most frequent case".

Save-to-transform as a catalyst for embracing digital disruption
2020-08-21 03:00

"The Save-to-Thrive framework will be essential to success in the next normal as companies rely on technology and digital enablement - with a renewed emphasis on talent - to improve their plans for strategic cost transformation and overall enterprise performance improvement," said Omar Aguilar, principal and global strategic cost transformation leader, Deloitte Consulting. Revenue sources will be fundamentally different: According to the survey, the fastest growing revenue sources will be: digital channels; new products and services; and domestic operations.

Western Digital introduces WD brand My Passport SSD in capacities up to 2TB
2020-08-20 23:30

For consumers who need to accelerate their productivity and protect their valuable content without compromising style, Western Digital introduced the new WD brand My Passport SSD in capacities up to 2TB. With a sleek, compact metal design and blazing fast speeds powered by NVMe technology, the new palm-sized drive allows home and business users to save, access and protect the content that matters. "The new My Passport SSD delivers the speed, reliability and functionality consumers have come to expect from us," said Susan Park, vice president, Consumer Solutions, Western Digital.

ISO defines standard approach to embed LEIs within digital certificates
2020-08-20 00:00

ISO has defined a standard approach for Certification Authorities to embed Legal Entity Identifiers within digital certificates. The move to simplify LEI integration paves the way for all digital certificates to be linked by a universal identifier to verified and regularly updated entity reference data, in a freely accessible repository, and also can contain the certificate owner's role within a legal entity.

Nutanix Clusters now available on AWS, allowing businesses to accelerate digital initiatives
2020-08-12 00:00

Nutanix announced general availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS, extending the flexibility and ease of use of the company's hyperconverged infrastructure software, along with all Nutanix products and services, to bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances on Amazon Web Services. With this announcement, Nutanix delivers hybrid cloud infrastructure - one that allows businesses to accelerate their digital initiatives and optimize spending, priorities further amplified in the age of COVID. Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage, provides unified operations across private and public clouds, integrated networking with AWS, and license portability from private to public clouds, thus addressing key technical and operational challenges of the hybrid cloud era.