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Tripwire announced expanded multi-cloud capabilities for Tripwire Configuration Manager. Tripwire Configuration Manager simplifies the monitoring, remediation, and automation of cloud account configurations for multi-cloud organizations through a single console.
Isotropic Systems announces that is has fully secured funding of over $40 million providing the necessary capital required to develop its multi-beam antennas. With funding in place, Isotropic Systems plans to accelerate its production phase in time to support new constellations and satellites launching in all satellite orbits from 2022 onwards.
Multi-cloud network security platform provider Valtix on Thursday announced that it raised $12.5 million in strategic funding. Founded in 2018 and launched in 2019 with $14 million in funding, the Santa Clara, California-based company provides enterprise customers with a cloud-native network security service that can help protect both applications and services.
PacketFabric announced it has launched Cloud Router, a multi-cloud connectivity solution. Cloud Router will super-serve the enterprise as well as small business who are seeking a future-proofed way to connect multiple cloud providers.
A recently discovered multi-platform credit card skimmer can harvest payment info on compromised stores powered by Shopify, BigCommerce, Zencart, and Woocommerce. This new skimmer can also abuse hosted e-commerce systems such as Shopify and BigCommerce, as researchers at Dutch cyber-security company Sansec found, even though they do not provide support for custom checkout pages scripts.
Network operator spend on multi-access edge computing will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020, to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and infrastructure to support the increasing data generated by 5G networks, according to Juniper Research. The study also revealed that by 2025, the number of deployed multi-access edge computing nodes will reach 2 million globally in 2025, up from 230,000 in 2020.
Toward the end of the second incident that Volexity worked involving Dark Halo, the actor was observed accessing the e-mail account of a user via OWA. This was unexpected for a few reasons, not least of which was the targeted mailbox was protected by MFA. Logs from the Exchange server showed that the attacker provided username and password authentication like normal but were not challenged for a second factor through Duo. The logs from the Duo authentication server further showed that no attempts had been made to log into the account in question.
Tom Merritt lists five reasons why SMS should not be used for MFA. Multi-factor authentication, or as we used to call it two-factor authentication, is essential-it means you don't rely on your password alone for security. SMS is the most frequently used additional factor because almost everybody has it, and it's a little easier to manage for developers-but it's also the least secure.
Using SMS as an additional means to authenticate your password is better than nothing, but it's not the most reliable. Tom Merritt lists five reasons why SMS should not be used for MFA.
SS8 Networks has been awarded two multi-million dollar Lawful Intelligence contracts using its Intellego XT and Xcipio family of products. SS8 was awarded these contracts due to their continued effort of providing leading edge and cost-effective solutions.