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Ethernity Networks announced it has developed a solution that both aggregates 5G traffic and provides virtual routing directly within the 5G Distributed Unit. Ethernity's solution eliminates the need for a CSR by integrating the virtual routing software with the FPGA SmartNIC within the DU server.

As evolution to the cloud is accelerated by digital transformation across industries, virtual appliance security has fallen behind, Orca Security reveals. The report illuminated major gaps in virtual appliance security, finding many are being distributed with known, exploitable and fixable vulnerabilities and on outdated or unsupported operating systems.

Orca Security used its SideScanning technology to check virtual appliances for vulnerabilities and outdated operating systems. The company scanned a total of more than 2,200 virtual appliances from 540 vendors in April and May, and identified over 400,000 vulnerabilities.

Password manager 1Password and virtual card platform Privacy.com announced an API integration that lets users create virtual cards in their browser quickly and safely when they need to make a payment. Starting today, users can create, use and save Privacy Cards directly within their 1Password extension whenever they're needed.

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The operators of the Maze ransomware have added a fresh trick to their bag of badness: Distributing ransomware payloads via virtual machines. "In an earlier attack, Ragnar Locker also deployed a virtual machine in an attempt to bypass protection measures," Sophos researchers explained.

With the 2020 election looming, security is a hot topic. In the business hall, we saw vendors with new offerings to extend the corporate network and security into a user's home.

North Korean hackers stole millions of dollars from virtual currency accounts and then laundered the stolen funds in hopes of making the crime untraceable, according to a Justice Department civil forfeiture complaint filed Thursday. It comes months after Justice Department officials accused hackers from North Korea of stealing nearly $250 million worth of virtual currency and charged two Chinese hackers with laundering more than $100 million from the hack.

As organizations are settling into long-term remote working, new attack vectors for opportunistic cyberattackers-and new challenges for network administrators have been introduced, Nuspire reveals. There was an increase in both botnet and exploit activity over the course of Q2 2020 by 29% and 13% respectively-that's more than 17,000 botnet and 187,000 exploit attacks a day.

Tech Data announced that it has expanded its Cloud Solution Factory offering with the addition of a new Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure Click-to-Run Solution, which increases remote workforce productivity while ensuring data and applications can be securely accessed from any location using any device. "As a leader in cloud and next-generation solution aggregation, Tech Data makes cloud adoption simple by significantly reducing cloud configuration and deployment processes so that our channel partners can serve their customers more effectively and with fewer risks."