Cloud Security

Malware & Threats

Issued by: The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign that’s leveraging internet-exposed Selenium Grid services for illicit cryptocurrency mining. Cloud security Wiz is tracking the activity under the name SeleniumGreed. The campaign, which is targeting older versions of Selenium (3.141.59 and prior), is believed to be underway since at least April 2023. “Unbeknownst to…

News

Issued by: CSO Online

With new leadership, key acquisitions, and a platform-based vision, Cisco is betting big on security. Cisco’s dominance in networking and telecommunications products and services is well established, but its role in cybersecurity is less cemented. It has provided security software and network security appliances for some time, and it’s one of the dominant players in…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

As the name suggests, a cloud access security broker (CASB) manages access between enterprise endpoints and cloud resources from a security perspective. CASBs can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud; as a hardware appliance or software-only, as a proxy, reverse proxy, or through specific APIs. Enterprises have untold numbers of endpoints, both managed (corporate-owned…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Bringing its security and data analysis capabilities to a new potential audience, data security and multicloud data management provider Cohesity is now taking signups for access to its Turing generative AI features via Amazon’s Bedrock front-end for cloud-based AI. Cohesity Turing’s AWS-available features, the company announced Monday, will center on three main areas. The first…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cisco’s massive $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in September was the financial highlight of a quarter during which several other vendors also made strategic purchases to position themselves for emerging enterprise requirements around cloud, application, and identity security. The acquisitions added to a better-than-expected quarter ended Sept. 30, 2023, with venture funding also picking up…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud. Several new features will allow joint customers to innovate even faster in Google Cloud environments with the confidence that their cloud environment is even more secure. Customers can now choose to have the full Lacework platform, which provides data-driven…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

An apparently innocuous cloud hosting provider may be fronting for an Iran-based company that provides command-and-control services to ransomware attackers, according to a report published this week by security consultant and anti-ransomware vendor Halcyon. Cloudzy, the report said, is primarily a virtual private server provider, which accepts cryptocurrency as payment for its services. Halcyon said…

Application Security, Cloud Security, Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Although only seeing tepid adoption to date, adaptive access and authentication is set to gain steam among businesses this year as organizations pursue zero-trust capabilities that grant and restrict access to data and systems based on context. In the latest sign of life in the evolving industry, startup company Oleria announced on March 21 that…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Digital transformation is sweeping across the public and private sectors. This has pushed organizations to increasingly turn to hybrid and multicloud environments as a way to manage a sprawling digital infrastructure and growing mountains of data. But while cloud technology promises to increase collaboration among distributed workforces and quickly scale digital workloads, it also creates…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Canonic Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, emerged from stealth exactly a year ago with $6 million in seed-stage venture capital funding for technology in the third-party app governance space. The publicly traded Zscaler, based in San Jose, CalifCanonic’s platform is designed to prevent expanding risks associated…