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The user’s private keys, which are stored locally in the secure secure enclave portion of the device’s memory, authenticate and authorize the user through Beyond’s cloud-based service. Password management headaches and credential theft have long been one of the biggest challenges for organizations, and password layering with multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other protections has become the norm. But as the recent SolarWinds attack, believed to be outside of Russia, has shown, attack...

Startup Offers Free Version of its Passwordless Technology Beyond Identity co-founders hope to move the needle in eliminating the need for passwords, but experts say killing passwords altogether wont be easy. A startup with the goal of eradicating passwords and led by Netscape founder Jim Clark and broadband network pioneer Tom Jermoluk today released a free version of its service that authenticates and authorizes users without the use of passwords. The free version of Beyond Identitys service...

SolarWinds Attack Underscores New Dimension in Cyber-Espionage Tactics Meanwhile, Malwarebytes is the latest victim, Symantec discovers a fourth piece of malware used in the massive attack campaign, and FireEye Mandiant releases a free tool to help spot signs of the attack. The complex cyberattack campaign against major US government agencies and corporations including Microsoft and FireEye has driven home the reality of how attackers are setting their sights on targets cloud-based services suc...

More SolarWinds Attack Details Emerge A third piece of malware is uncovered, but there are still plenty of unknowns about the epic attacks purportedly out of Russia. As yet another piece of malware has been uncovered in the attack on SolarWinds network management system software, there still remain several missing elements needed to draw a complete picture of the massive cyberattacks against major US government agencies and corporations, including security vendor and incident response expert Fi...

  How does this new service fight cancer, then? While a revenue share with charitable causes is certainly a possibility, thats not the core of this new services mission. Rather, Futuristicon aims to use the power of its customers computers. Sharing is Caring BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — is an open-source project with a laudable goal: take a little bit of computing power from a lot of people and use it to make some important calculations. BOINC projects cal...

The Coolest Hacks of 2020 Despite a pandemic and possibly the worst cyberattack campaign ever waged against the US, the year still had some bright spots when it came to "good" and creative hacks. 2020 unsurprisingly went out with a bang, and not in a good way. The massive cyberattack campaign by Russian nation state-actors shattered hopes for a quiet holiday break for security teams who have been heads-down since March when the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold and rocked SOCs. Workers — in...

[December 29, 2020] Spectra Logic Wins 10 Product Innovation and Industry Leadership Awards in 2020 Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, today announced that Spectra and its solutions won 10 top industry awards from a variety of prestigious industry publications and organizations in 2020. Top Brand for Secondary Storage in the U.S. - In a survey done by Coldago, an international research firm, Spectra Logic earned the top brand spot for Secondary Storage. The s...

ExaGrid Concludes 2020 with 7 Industry Award Wins and New Ransomware Recovery Solution Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:28AM IST (5:58AM GMT) Highlights Include the Release of Software Version 6.0, Continued Global Expansion, Strong Sales Quarters, and Consecutive Award Wins   ®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that the company had a successful year despite the worldwide struggles associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.   “We are grateful to our custom...

ExaGrid Concludes 2020 with 7 Industry Award Wins and New Ransomware Recovery Solution MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(Business Wire)--ExaGrid ®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that the company had a successful year despite the worldwide struggles associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are grateful to our customers, reseller partners, and alliance partners who have worked with us to make 2020 such a successful year, in spite of the adversity that we have al...

"CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available," the agency said in the report. The agency is investigating incidents where victims were compromised in the same campaign but without the malicious Orion code. They also point to security vendor Volexitys report of a think tank that was compromised via an attack that bypassed Duo and othe...