Securing Smart Cities from the Ground Up
Smart technology continues to change how people live and interact with the cities around them. While the full value of a connected city evolves – one that leverages innovations powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning – cybersecurity stands as one of its greatest challenges. The Smart City Conundrum While the promise of Smart Cities…
The 3 Critical Elements You Need for Vulnerability Management Today
In a world increasingly dependent on technology, software sprawl is growing. Companies use custom-built software, open source software, and products from third-party providers when building applications. Through this software supply chain, the digital attack surface expands. Each software dependency can also open it up to potential attack as bugs are found in all types of…
Cyberattack Disrupts Unemployment Benefits in Some States
In Tennessee, the website for unemployment benefits remained down Thursday morning after the vendor, Geographic Solutions Inc., told the state Sunday that service would be interrupted. Some 12,000 Tennesseans rely on the unemployment program, and for now, they’re not getting their payments. The company said that it expects Tennessee’s system to be back online before…
Peer Software partners with Pulsar Security to help enterprise customers combat ransomware attacks
Peer Software announced the formation of a strategic alliance with Pulsar Security. Through the alliance, Peer Software will leverage Pulsar Security’s team of cyber security experts to continuously monitor and analyze emerging and evolving ransomware and malware attack patterns on unstructured data. PeerGFS, an enterprise-class software solution that eases the deployment of a modern distributed…
How European Rulings Imperil Flagship Google Product
More than half of the world’s websites use Google Analytics to help their owners understand the behavior of users. The software, which deploys cookies to track user behavior, costs nothing in cash terms — though the vast trove of data helps to fuel Google’s massive profits. However, in 2020 the framework overseeing how personal data…
Thoma Bravo acquires SaaS company Anaplan for $10.7B
Business planning SaaS (software-as-a-service) software maker Anaplan is being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $10.7 billion. Founded in the UK and now based in San Francisco, Anaplan offers cloud-based finance and planning software and counts almost 2,000 customers worldwide, including Coca-Cola, Shell, Thomas Cook and VMware. The company went public in 2018,…
Microsoft Patches Critical Exchange Server Flaw
Microsoft today issued security updates for 71 software vulnerabilities, three of which were critical and one that has a known proof-of-concept available in the public domain. Among the most notable flaws fixed today by Microsoft are: CVE-2022-23277 Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This is a critical bug that could allow an attacker who…
Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems
If there existed a prize for the most pervasive, critical, and least-known middleware technology, the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard would certainly win it. When we first presented the results of this research at the Black Hat Europe Briefings, the audience appeared to be completely unaware (embarrassed, even) that the DDS drives railways, autonomous cars,…
Many Prometheus Endpoints Expose Sensitive Data
Designed to harvest real-time metrics from various endpoints, Prometheus enables organizations to keep a close eye on systems’ state, network usage, and the like. Close to 800 cloud-native platforms, including Slack and Uber, leverage the solution. In January 2021, Prometheus added support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) and basic authentication, to prevent access to the…
Apple Announces Delay of Child Protection Measures
The Silicon Valley giant had last month said iPhones and iPads would soon start detecting images containing child sexual abuse and reporting them as they are uploaded to its online storage in the United States. However, digital rights organizations quickly noted the tweaks to Apple’s operating systems create a potential “backdoor” into gadgets that could…
