Security News

Critical Intel Active Management Technology Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation
2020-09-08 20:34

Intel patched a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in its Active Management Technology, which is used for remote out-of-band management of PCs. AMT is part of the Intel vPro platform and is primarily used by enterprise IT shops for remote management of corporate systems. The issue, found internally by Intel employees, ranks 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, making it critical severity, according to Intel in a Tuesday security advisory.

Siemens selects Cohesity for global data management
2020-09-02 23:45

Cohesity has been selected to provide Siemens with a modern backup and data management solution to protect 300+ Windows servers in 39 countries, as well as long-term archiving in Switzerland. This wholly new project will see Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, deliver Cohesity's solutions to enable a comprehensive data management system to handle Siemens' backup and recovery, data storage, and long-term archival requirements, which involve storage of some data for 12 years.

Tempered 2.2.8 software: Enhanced flexibility and management of secure networks
2020-08-31 01:30

Tempered announced new hardware and software designed to protect data, applications, and devices across on-premise, remote, and cloud environments. Airwall uses the industry's only truly native zero-trust approach to enable microsegmented, secure networking for important network assets by making them invisible to unauthorized users such as insider threats, external bad actors, and even nation states - while enabling authorized users to connect to the 'things' they need from anywhere in the world.

Why Vivaldi outshines all other browsers' history management
2020-08-27 17:04

One very clear area where Vivaldi is absolutely superior to all other browsers is how it makes managing your history not only easy, but intuitive. Let me show you how easy it is to manage that history within Vivaldi.

How do I select a password management solution for my business?
2020-08-27 05:30

To select a suitable password management solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. For organizations to leverage the benefits of next-generation password security, they need to ensure their password management solution is easy to use - and subsequently adopted by all employees.

Cohesity DataPlatform now brings modern data management capabilities to all-flash solutions
2020-08-27 00:45

Cohesity announced major software advancements to Cohesity DataPlatform that bring modern data management capabilities to powerful all-flash solutions from key alliance partners Cisco and HPE. Cohesity DataPlatform now includes new I/O Boost technology that drives even greater data consolidation, lowers total cost of ownership, and delivers incredibly fast performance for backing up, accessing, and deriving insights from data in all-flash environments. Greater choice: Customers have the flexibility of choosing certified all-flash enterprise servers that suit their business needs, specifically Cisco UCS C220 M5, HPE ProLiant DL360 G10, Dell PowerEdge R640, and Intel Server System R1208WF. "The Cohesity DataPlatform with I/O Boost makes flash even more affordable, while meeting increasingly demanding SLAs for backup, recovery, file and object services, and data insights," said Matt Waxman, vice president of product management, Cohesity.

Innodisk and DFI provide dual remote management solution for IoT devices
2020-08-25 23:30

The exponential growth of IoT devices brings a new challenge: how to effectively manage and monitor large numbers of connected devices that may be hard to access in widely-scattered remote locations? To answer this challenge, Innodisk has combined its expertise with DFI, to bring DFI's RemoGuard remote management system to its customers.

Warehouse management software biz SnapFulfil hit by ransomware: It's not just the big dogs getting KO'd
2020-08-20 12:00

A UK cloud-based warehouse management software provider was struck by ransomware earlier this week. Emails from SnapFulfil, a trading name of Synergy Logistics, sent to its customers late last week and shown to The Register, revealed how a ransomware attack targeted the company's services, disrupting warehouse operations for at least one of its customers.

IBM AI-Powered Data Management Software Subject to Simple Exploit
2020-08-20 12:00

The IBM Db2 is a family of hybrid data-management products containing artificial intelligence, which can be used to analyze and manage both structured and unstructured data within enterprises. The lack of explicit memory protections "Allows any local users read-and-write access to that memory area," Trustwave researchers said, in their PoC exploit writeup for the bug, issued on Thursday.

Experts Reported Security Bug in IBM's Db2 Data Management Software
2020-08-20 04:59

Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details of a memory vulnerability in IBM's Db2 family of data management products that could potentially allow a local attacker to access sensitive data and even cause a denial of service attacks. The flaw, which impacts IBM Db2 V9.7, V10.1, V10.5, V11.1, and V11.5 editions on all platforms, is caused by improper usage shared memory, thereby granting a bad actor to perform unauthorized actions on the system.