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Ørsted to Open North American Digital Operations Headquarters in Newark On May 20, 2021 Ørsted announced that it will open its North American Digital Operations Headquarters in Newark. The new office will initially be home to over 20 Ørsted staff, including 12-14 new IT positions in 2021, and has the potential to more than double its headcount over the next several years based on Ørsted’s offshore and onshore growth in the U.S. The digitalization headquarters in...

iTWire Thursday, 20 May 2021 09:32 Palo Alto innovates its Zero Trust Network Security Shares In a bid to tighten and upgrade its security, Palo Alto Networks unveils five new innovations to simplify its Zero Trust Network Security for its stakeholders. Palo Alto Networks introduces five key innovations that make it easier for customers to adopt Zero Trust across their network security stack. Anand Oswal, senior vice president, firewall as a platform, Palo Alto Networks, says “...

23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users Personal Data Misconfigurations in multiple Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors. "By not following best-practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud-services into applications, millions of users private data was exposed," Check Point researchers said in an analysis published today and shared with The Hacker News. "In some cases, this type o...

Watering Hole Attack Was Used to Target Florida Water Utilities An investigation undertaken in the aftermath of the Oldsmar water plant hack earlier this year has revealed that an infrastructure contractor in the U.S. state of Florida hosted malicious code on its website in whats known as a watering hole attack. "This malicious code seemingly targeted water utilities, particularly in Florida, and more importantly, was visited by a browser from the city of Oldsmar on the same day of the poisonin...

Cisco Systems has brought on former Forescout CMO Neville Letzerich as its new vice president and chief marketing officer of the Cisco Security division.

SASE provider Open Systems has named IT veteran and former VMware Carbon Black VP Geoff Haydon as its CEO, with an eye on boosting its managed security business.

U.S. Pipeline Ransomware Attackers Go Dark After Servers and Bitcoin Are Seized Just as Colonial Pipeline restored all of its systems to operational status in the wake of a crippling ransomware incident a week ago, DarkSide, the cybercrime syndicate behind the attack, claimed it lost control of its infrastructure, citing a law enforcement seizure. All the dark websites operated by the gang, including its DarkSide Leaks blog, ransom collection site, and breach data content delivery network (CDN)...

News Summary: Cisco unveils innovations that radically simplify security across devices, networks, applications and data with expanded Extended Detection & Response (XDR) capabilities in the SecureX platform. Cisco delivers on Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vision with enhanced threat protection in the cloud. Cisco redefines network security, introduces the industrys first integrated firewall and application workload protection for dynamic environments. Cisco, the leader in enterprise secu...

Why Password Hygiene Needs a Reboot In todays digital world, password security is more important than ever. While biometrics, one-time passwords (OTP), and other emerging forms of authentication are often touted as replacements to the traditional password, today, this concept is more marketing hype than anything else. But just because passwords arent going anywhere anytime soon doesnt mean that organizations dont need to modernize their approach to password hygiene right now. The Compromised C...

Home/Features/May issue roundtable: Biometrics – The next generation of access control The technology creates a “one-time biometric” by projecting a cryptographic sequence of colours from the device screen onto the user’s face. May issue roundtable: Biometrics – The next generation of access control 5 hours ago PCR talk to Rob Watts, Corsight CEO about its facial recognition technology (FTR) and Claire Hatcher, Global Head of Business Development for Fraud Prevention at Kaspersky ab...