Security news from the week beginning 22 April 2024
Security news from the week beginning 22 April 2024
Digital Security by Design nets researchers £10 million
Nine winners of the UK Government’s Digital Security by Design programme are to share £10 million in grants between them. Grants are spread over four years and were announced by Digital...
BootHole exposes billions of devices to attack
Are you preparing to patch all your Linux, Windows and other devices today? No? Well, you should. Researchers at Eclypsium have announced BootHole. It is a vulnerability that affects virtually every...
Facebook complains data transfer ruling would end its EU businesses
Facebook has claimed its EU businesses are threatened if it can’t continue to exfiltrate EU data to the US for processing. The claim comes from Yvonne Cunnane, Facebook Ireland’s head of...
New version of CyberSense aims to stay ahead of Ransomware
Index Engines has announced a new version of its CyberSense product. It is now faster and capable of handling much higher levels of throughput. This, the company claims, allows CyberSense to...
DarkMarket taken offline by law enforcement
DarkMarket is no more as a concerted police action has taken the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web offline. Police forces from Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom...
Protecting sensitive data in healthcare a complete farce
Protecting sensitive data in healthcare is effectively a complete farce. After reading through the Varonis 2021 Data Risk Report for Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, that's the conclusion. The report opens with...
noyb slams deceptive cookie banner practices
Privacy group noyb has issued 500 draft complaints to companies who use deliberately misleading cookie banners. It is the first salvo in a campaign that could see more than 10,000 complaints...
Palo Alto launches third generation of Cortex XDR targeting Cloud customers
Palo Alto has launched the third generation of its Cortex XDR solution. This release expands Cortex to the cloud and targets cloud and identity-based threats. According to Palo Alto, Cortex 3.0...
BlueVoyant acquires 202 Group – targets US government supply chain
Cybersecurity platform vendor BlueVoyant has acquired 202 Group as it targets US federal government supply chain. 202 Group has two separate platforms 202scrm and 202scout. BlueVoyant plans to integrate the 202scrm...
LATEST NEWS
Salesloft appoints Sara Cohen as Chief People Officer
Salesloft has appointed Sara Cohen as Chief People Officer. The appointment comes as the revenue workflow platform is growing through a significant growth phase....
Infosys partners with Formula E to enhance fan experiences with AI and digital innovations
Infosys has announced a strategic three-year partnership with the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The organisation behind global motorsport championship for electric cars....
JOLT hires new UK Marketing head to fuel growth
JOLT has announced the appointment of Louise Down as UK Head of Marketing. JOLT has a unique EV charging station proposition. The company has...
Precisely extends geo-addressing capabilities
Precisely has announced the expansion of its geo-addressing capabilities to cover more geographies and deepen the capabilities within existing ones. It has extended the...
Backslash Security says LLM-generated code brings risk
Backslash Security has been looking at the security risks of LLM-generated code. It built a developer simulation exercise that it used against GPT-4, which...
How IOWN intends to use photonics to reshape computing
The Innovative Optical Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum held its fourth annual member meeting in Vancouver, Canada. It was an opportunity for it to...
LinkDaddy adopts Zoho One to power up business
LinkDaddy, is an SEO agency specializing in generating high-quality backlinks for small businesses. It has announced that it will adopt Zoho for its future...
Bentley Systems focuses on continuation and steady growth after Q1 results
Bentley Systems has announced its first quarter results for the period ending March 31st 2024. The results are strong, with total revenues growing 7.4%...
Twilio research says consumers waste 1.5 days a year on dull brand admin
Over half of consumers (54%) have lost their patience or become emotional (47%) with brands wasting their time. 37% now expect companies to use...
Iwoca targets European growth with £270 million funding
Iwoca, one of Europe's largest lenders to SMEs has secured a £270 million of debt funding from Citi and Barclays. The funding will enable...
Nexi and shopreme partner to elevate in-store checkout experiences for consumers across Europe
Nexi, a European PayTech company has announced a strategic collaboration with shopreme, a pioneer in advanced checkout technology. The partnership will see Nexi integrate...
PriceSpider partners with It’sRapid to enable eCommerce brands to generate shopping campaign content
PriceSpider has announced a new partnership with It'sRapid, a pioneer in AI-driven creative automation for eCommerce content and retail media. It'sRapid aims to provide...
DigiCert has announced World Quantum Readiness Day
DigiCert has announced the first World Quantum Readiness Day. It will take place on September 26, 2024. Its goal is to highlight the need for...
Mission Control blasts out latest release of PSA
Mission Control has released version 1.68 of its PSA solution. The update contains two significant improvements and enhancements to some key elements. There are...
