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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 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.
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'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.
TP-Link introduced three new Multi-Gigabit switches for business customers. As an expansion to the TP-Link Omada business product line, the new switches enhance network setups for business and provide upgrade options for prosumers in need of an ultra-fast connection.
Zyxel Networks announced the launch of XGS1250-12 12-Port Web-Managed Multi-Gigabit Switch with 3-Port 10G and 1-Port 10G SFP+. Designed to optimize high-bandwidth applications in the home and office, such as HD multimedia content creation and storage, and high-speed WiFi 6 data and IoT traffic, the versatile XGS1250-12 switch features three multi-Gigabit ports to eliminate network bottlenecks for devices such as 10G NAS or servers, WiFi 6 access points and new 2.5G motherboards. The switch features eight Gigabit Ethernet ports, one 10G SFP+ port, and three Multi-Gigabit ports that support five speeds: 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, 1 Gbps and 1 Gbps. The highest common link speed is automatically and independently negotiated with each connected device.
Tom Merritt lists five things you need to know about multi-factor authentication. You need to know about multi-factor authentication, or as a lot of other folks call it two-factor authentication.
MFA can help make your organization more secure. Tom Merritt lists five things you need to know about multi-factor authentication.
Akamai Technologies announced the launch of Akamai MFA, a phish-proof solution designed to enable enterprises to quickly deploy FIDO2 multi-factor authentication without the need to deploy and manage hardware security keys. Akamai MFA uses a smartphone application that transforms existing smartphones into a hardware security key to deliver a frictionless user experience.
An analysis from global cybersecurity company Group-IB reveals that ransomware attacks more than doubled last year and increased in both scale and sophistication. Pulling data from more than 500 attacks analyzed in incident response jobs, Group-IB was able to provide an overview of the evolution of the ransomware business in 2020 and the tactics, techniques, and procedures used in the events leading to encrypting victim systems.