Security News

RIP: Microsoft Edge Legacy nuked by April Windows Updates
2021-04-13 16:54

Microsoft has confirmed that today's release of mandatory Patch Tuesday updates will automatically remove Edge Legacy and replace it with the new Chromium-based Edge. In older versions of Windows 10, users who wished to use it could download it from the Microsoft Edge site or wait for the mandatory Windows Update.

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge zero-day vulnerability shared on Twitter
2021-04-13 01:20

A security researcher has dropped a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability on Twitter that works on the current version of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. While Agarwal states that the vulnerability is fixed in the latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine, it is not clear when Google will roll out the Google Chrome.

Cisco invests in Securiti to help customers address multicloud and edge security
2021-04-11 23:30

Securiti announced participation from Cisco Investments in its latest round of funding. The company plans to work with Cisco and help their customers solve the challenge of multicloud and edge security, privacy and compliance.

Pwn2Own 2021: Zoom, Teams, Exchange, Chrome and Edge “fully owned”
2021-04-09 18:33

The annual Pwn2Own contest features live hacking where top cybersecurity researchers duke it out under time pressure for huge cash prizes. Pwn2Own is a bug bounty program with a twist.

OpenNebula 6.0 “Mutara”: Laying groundwork for an integrated and automated enterprise edge cloud
2021-04-08 00:45

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.

New Microsoft Edge grew 1,300% this year, overtaking Firefox
2021-04-05 19:50

The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser has grown by over 1,300% in the past 12 months, while the Firefox browser is slowly losing its market share. In January 2020, Microsoft released the first stable version of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser and announced that they would slowly release it to Windows 10 users.

VMware Cloud enables orgs to accelerate app modernization across the data center, edge and cloud
2021-04-01 02:15

VMware Cloud is a distributed, multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to accelerate application modernization across the data center, edge, and any cloud. VMware Cloud Universal is ideal for customers committed to a hybrid cloud architecture; that have extended or variable cloud migration timelines; that have cloud bursting requirements; or desire an OPEX model for on-premises infrastructure.

Seagate Lyve Data Transfer Services helps businesses quickly move mass data from edge to cloud
2021-04-01 02:00

Seagate Technology launched Lyve Data Transfer Services with its fleet of Lyve Mobile data shuttles, arrays, and services, enabling businesses to move mass data quickly, securely, and simply from edge to private, public, or hybrid clouds. In over a thousand businesses surveyed, more than half move data between storage locations daily, weekly, or monthly, and their average total of physical data transferred is 473TB. The faster they can move this data from edge to core to cloud, the more quickly they can unlock insights and derive value from their data.

Insight to sell and support the Byos family of patented plug-and-play Secure Endpoint Edge solutions
2021-03-26 00:30

Byos announced a partnership with Insight Enterprises. This partnership affords the opportunity for Byos to reach a large bandwidth of customers who, in many cases, may not be aware of the Byos portfolio of security endpoint edge solutions.

Windows 10 ISO installs may fail to replace Microsoft Edge Legacy
2021-03-25 21:23

Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing the new Microsoft Edge web browser not to install from custom Windows 10 installation media including updates released on Thursday, March 25. Microsoft Edge Legacy is also being removed if using Windows 10 install media bundling the KB5000850 non-security release preview update for Windows 10 1909 and Windows Server 1909.