Security News

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.

NICE Actimize launches Xceed, an AI cloud-native financial crime risk management solution
2020-08-20 02:00

NICE Actimize announced the launch of its newest platform, NICE Actimize Xceed, which integrates best-in-class AI, data intelligence, behavioral analytics, and insights within a unified cloud platform designed to bring agility to financial institutions of all sizes, including community and regional banks, that are looking to modernize their financial crime risk management solutions. With "Always On" AI-based technology, NICE Actimize Xceed's self-learning capabilities immediately and autonomously adapt to new threats, helping financial institutions meet today's dynamic risk management needs with laser accuracy, speed and simplicity, and without the need for a team of data scientists.

Password Management Company Keeper Security Raises $60 Million
2020-08-18 14:40

Password management solutions provider Keeper Security on Monday announced that it has raised $60 million in growth funding from private equity company Insight Partners. Keeper says this is its first equity raise since the company was launched, and it plans on using the money to boost product innovation and global sales.

Datadog Incident Management streamlines on-call response workflows for DevOps teams
2020-08-13 02:30

Datadog Incident Management brings data, documentation, and collaboration together in a single location which all engineers and security team members can jointly work from. "With these new Incident Management features now available alongside our powerful tools for alerting, monitoring, and collaboration, Datadog customers can manage and resolve incidents in a single, unified platform, saving time when it matters."

JumpCloud App for Windows: Enabling secure credential and identity management
2020-08-12 00:30

JumpCloud announced the release of the JumpCloud App for Windows, the latest update to its patent-pending strategy for enabling secure credential and identity management from an employee's device. The JumpCloud Windows App streamlines credential management workflows and establishes the employee's workstation or laptop as a trusted device.

Critical Flaws Affect Citrix Endpoint Management (XenMobile Servers)
2020-08-11 13:17

Citrix today released patches for multiple new security vulnerabilities affecting its Citrix Endpoint Management, also known as XenMobile, a product made for enterprises to help companies manage and secure their employees' mobile devices remotely. Citrix Endpoint Management offers businesses mobile device management and mobile application management capabilities.

What are the benefits of automated, cloud-native patch management?
2020-08-07 03:30

Could organizations recoup their share of more than $1 billion per quarter by moving away from legacy solutions to cloud-native patch management and endpoint hardening? A new report from Sedulo Group says yes. The 2020 TCO Study of Microsoft WSUS & SCCM report shows organizations using Microsoft endpoint management for patching and hardening spend nearly 2x as much as organizations using SaaS-based patch management platforms.