Security News

OwnBackup acquires Nimmetry to accelerate its multi-cloud strategy
2021-06-01 23:00

OwnBackup announces the acquisition of Nimmetry, based in Santa Clara, CA, with a significant presence in Hyderabad, India. "This acquisition accelerates OwnBackup's multi-cloud strategy. The entrance into the Indian market and the access to the talented professionals that are now part of the OwnBackup family marks the continuance of a long-term commitment on OwnBackup's part to providing industry-leading products and services to help our customers protect their mission critical SaaS data," says Sam Gutmann, CEO of OwnBackup.

North Korean hackers behind CryptoCore multi-million dollar heists
2021-05-24 14:02

Security researchers piecing together evidence from multiple attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges, attributed to a threat actor they named CryptoCore have established a strong connection to the North Korean state-sponsored group Lazarus. Last year, cybersecurity company ClearSky published a report about the financially motivated CryptoCore campaign that targeted cryptocurrency wallets belonging to exchanges or their employees.

ClearDATA expands SaaS platform to automatically detect PHI in multi-cloud storage buckets
2021-05-16 00:00

ClearDATA announced an expanded capability of their ClearDATA Healthcare Security and Compliance Platform, enabling healthcare organizations and their business associates to automatically detect protected health information in multi-cloud storage buckets. "In today's climate, cybersecurity breaches are at an all-time high, partially due to the industry's accelerating cloud adoption to tackle the unique challenges healthcare has encountered during the pandemic," said Suhas Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at ClearDATA. "This new technology offering enhances healthcare organizations' ability to create secure environments for data that facilitate innovation, collaboration and scalability."

Sierra Wireless launches XR Series of multi-network 5G routers for business-critical apps
2021-05-13 00:15

Sierra Wireless launched the next evolution in routers with its new XR Series of multi-network 5G routers. The XR Series delivers the full performance of 5G across any network whether used for mobile applications or primary, temporary, or backup fixed wireless connectivity.

Google wants to enable multi-factor authentication by default
2021-05-06 21:05

Google strives to push all its users to start using two-factor authentication, which can block attackers from taking control of their accounts using compromised credentials or guessing their passwords. To enroll in two-factor authentication for your Google Account right now, go here and click the "Get Started" button to add an extra layer of security and block attackers from gaining access to your data.

McAfee Gamer Security offers a 1-year free gamer security to U.S. multi-device security customers
2021-05-03 23:00

Gaming has become one of the primary sources of entertainment for consumers in the wake of the global pandemic, and with the shift to a digital-first lifestyle, McAfee continues to focus on protecting consumers during moments that matter - when opportunistic hackers find an entry point - especially as gaming PC sales growing 16.2% in 2020. Launched in 2019, McAfee Gamer Security delivers a unique combination of performance and protection through its built-from-ground-up feature set, considering the needs of the wide spectrum of PC gaming - from families with children that game to PC gamers themselves.

Multi-Gov Task Force Plans to Take Down the Ransomware Economy
2021-04-29 17:39

Ransomware has reached crisis levels across business sectors and across the globe, but a public-private Ransomware Task Force aims to stem the tide of attacks by disrupting the crooks' business model. In all, it details what RTF considers to be "a full, comprehensive strategy to stem the ransomware tide - ranging from dealing with the complexities of the ransomware epidemic, to the role of cyber-insurance, cryptocurrency and safe havens for threat actors," according to Team Cymru, one of the cybersecurity firms signed onto the project.

Verimatrix Multi-DRM Core offers video streaming service providers a customizable DRM solution
2021-04-28 01:00

Verimatrix announced the expansion of its cloud-based SaaS offering, with the release of Verimatrix Multi-DRM Core service. The release serves as a significant step forward in the DRM space, offering video streaming service providers, content owners and operators the chance to set up a customizable, powerfully secured cloud-based DRM system within minutes while only paying for the capabilities and scalability they need at the time.

Critical infrastructure implications of the Pulse Secure multi-factor authentication bypass
2021-04-22 15:35

A variety of attack tools by a variety of threat actors are involved in exploiting the Pulse Secure systems, including four variants of a novel malware family FireEye/Mandiant has named SLOWPULSE. Three of the four variants of SLOWPULSE allow attackers to bypass two-factor authentication mechanisms in the VPN system. There is no information yet as to whether or which industrial or critical infrastructure sites might have been targeted.

S2C Prodigy MDM Pro provides simultaneous debugging across multi-FPGAs
2021-04-15 00:45

S2C's MDM solution captures and stores waveforms continuously in a dedicated standalone hardware removing the need to consume FPGA memory and provides simultaneous debugging across multi-FPGAs. The newly MDM Pro is enhanced with deeper trace to store up to 64GB of waveforms, faster sampling rate of up to 125MHz, faster bandwidth to support simultaneous debug of up to 8 FPGAs and new features such as dynamic probing to enable readback of internal DFF/BRAM values and advance triggers.