Accellion Kiteworks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now How Whangarei District Council escaped the Accellion FTA hacks Council's Accellion FTA software was hosted in the cloud and not subject to the first of two breaches. Whangarei, Northland Credit: Rob O'Neill Whangarei District Council has emerged as another local user of the file sharing software at the centre of the hack of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). "There have been some well-publicised issues with one of ou...

04/30/2021 In March, the University of California (UC) announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that targeted vulnerabilities in Accellion's legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA). The stolen data included the personal information of faculty and students including their email addresses to which messages were said stating, "Your personal data has been stolen and will be published."  As soon as the UC became aware of the breach, it took measures to contain it and began an investigation. The UC also alerted federal law enforcement. In the mean...

Mandiant Issues Final Report Regarding Accellion FTA Attack Mandiant validates full remediation of all known security vulnerabilities in the FTA product PALO ALTO, Calif., March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accellion, Inc., provider of Kiteworks, the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (“FTA”) product. As previously disclosed, Accellion engaged FireEye Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity forensics firm, to conduct an investigation into the sophisticat...