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Vladislav Klyushin, the Russian owner of security penetration testing firm M-13, was jailed for nine years in the US on Thursday, for his involvement in a cyber-crime operation that stole top corporations' confidential financial information to make $93 million through insider trading. His alleged Russian co-conspirators, Ivan Ermakov and Nikolai Rumiantcev, remain at large.
Synopsys Software Risk Manager simplifies application security testing. Software Risk Manager enables security and development teams to simplify, align and streamline their application security testing across projects, teams and application security testing tools.
PLUS: India calls for global action on AI and crypto; Vietnam seeks cybersecurity independence; China bans AI prescribing drugs Asia In Brief Taiwan-based infosec consultancy Team T5 has disputed...
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has admitted the nation has a vast shortfall of infosec pros. Hải Anh, deputy head of Vietnam's Information Security Authority, an agency of the ministry, said data trading activities were typically conducted within closed social media groups.
Microsoft has explained why it seemingly took its time to fix a flaw reported to it by infosec intelligence vendor Tenable. On July 10, Tenable again contacted Microsoft to reports its findings on what it regarded as a dangerously incomplete fix.
Fidelis Cybersecurity released the new Fidelis Active Directory Intercept, a capability that combines network detection and response, deception technology, and Active Directory security, as part of their Fidelis Network and Deception 9.6.1 product release. Tenable Cloud Security agentless container scanning enables security teams to prioritize and prevent container OS vulnerabilities and other risks in multi-cloud environments using a single user interface.
Sachkov faces 14-year stretch after 'unreasonably rushed trial' A Russian court has sentenced Ilya Sachkov, the founder of security research house Group-IB, to 14 years in a maximum-security...
A criminal crew with a history of deploying malware to harvest credentials from Amazon Web Services accounts may expand its attention to organizations using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The crooks used to target primarily AWS users, and now seem to be looking for ways into Azure and Google Cloud accounts.
Zilla Security introduces new suite of identity security SaaS solutions. Zilla Security announced Zilla Secure and Segregation of Duties, two SaaS solutions that enable enterprise-wide identity security for cloud-based applications and infrastructure, SaaS, and legacy applications.
In late September 2021, staff at Taiwanese threat intelligence company TeamT5 noticed something very nasty: a fake news report accusing it of conducting phishing attacks against Japan's government and local tech companies. "We can't keep off the internet, even when on holiday. The attackers weren't counting on that," threat intelligence analyst Che-Cheng Chang told The Reg when we dropped in to TeamT5's Taipei offices last week during the Computex conference.