Month: November 2021

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

5G has the potential to deliver incredible innovations — from smart cities to self-driving cars to advances in healthcare, manufacturing, and other key verticals. While 5G improves upon previous generations’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities, it also brings new risks: 5G is software-defined. The increased role of software in 5G makes it more susceptible to dynamic, software-based attacks…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The flaw also allowed the researchers to identify the real IP addresses of the hidden service hosting the recovery website, including 20 IPs communicating with the Conti servers, and two Tor entry nodes used for the recovery service, all of which were reported to the authorities. Furthermore, Prodaft discovered victim chat sessions that allowed them…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Acuant is based in California and it specializes in identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance. The acquisition, which is expected to close by the end of the month, will help GBG further expand into the United States. GBG says Acuant’s product suite complements the services provided by its US-based…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

In this exclusive SecurityWeek virtual event, defenders from the trenches will share use cases, best practices, insights for adopting tools and processes, and war stories to help make security operations centers (SOCs) more effective and efficient. Attendees can immerse themselves in a virtual environment to discuss the latest security operations trends and challenges and gain…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Following the massive infusion of cash, investors are valuing the company at $8.3 billion. San Francisco, California-based Lacework was founded in 2015 by Mike Speiser (managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures) Sanjay Kalra (now founder and CEO at ShiftRight), and Vikram Kapoor (CTO). It was built on the principal that cloud security is fundamentally a…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

U.K. Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries asked the Competition and Markets Authority to look into both the deal’s impact on competition and national security. NVIDIA has agreed to buy Cambridge-based Arm, Britain’s largest technology firm, from Japan’s Softbank. Arm’s semiconductor technology is widely used in computing devices, including smartphones, cars and other equipment that connects to…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity tasked CISA with developing playbooks for federal civilian agencies to help them plan and conduct vulnerability and incident response. While the playbooks have been created for federal civilian agencies and their contractors, CISA says the information could also be useful to critical infrastructure organizations and private sector…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Emotet, which emerged in 2014, became one of the most prevalent threats of the decade, evolving into a malware downloader that allowed cybercriminals to disseminate malware such as TrickBot, the Ryuk ransomware, and the QakBot banking Trojan, as well as various other threats. In January 2021, law enforcement agencies announced they were able to take…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The security hole, tracked as CVE-2021-0146 and rated high severity, impacts Pentium, Celeron and Atom CPUs on mobile, desktop and embedded devices. Affected Atom IoT processors are present in many cars, apparently including ones made by Tesla. Intel announced the availability of fixes when it released its November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates. “Hardware allows activation…