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Government critics hit by wave of digital attacks coinciding with political events such as Macron’s visit. ‘These digital attacks appear to be part of a sustained campaign to intimidate and silence critics of the Egyptian government’ - Ramy Raoof. A new investigation by Amnesty International has revealed that dozens of Egyptian human rights defenders have been targeted by phishing attacks since the beginning of this year, putting them in grave danger amid the government’s intensifying crackdown in...

Alert Logic, the SIEMless Threat Management™ company, has today announced that it has added a new extended endpoint protection capability along with other new capabilities for anti-virus integration, log collection and search for Office 365, Microsoft Azure Event Hubs integration, user behaviour anomaly detection for Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, and dark web scanning. This expanded attack surface coverage enriches Alert Logic’s offering with even greater detection and protection support along with enhanced visibility across...

CrowdStrike® Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, today announced CrowdStrike Falcon® for Mobile, the first enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution for mobile devices. Based on CrowdStrike’s proven EDR technology for enterprise endpoints, Falcon for Mobile enables security teams to hunt for advanced threats on mobile devices and provides unprecedented visibility into malicious, unwanted, or accidental access to sensitive corporate data, while protecting user privacy and without impacting device performance. Leveraging CrowdStrike’s cloud-native...

Adaptiva, a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions for enterprise customers, today launched a new endpoint compliance and vulnerability management product, Evolve VM™. Evolve VM harnesses Adaptiva's industry-leading peer-to-peer technology to automatically detect and remediate thousands of vulnerabilities on a massive scale and at the fastest speeds possible. The company will unveil Evolve VM at RSA Conference ! 2019, being held March 4-8 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Evolve VM leverages...

Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announced enhancements designed to help businesses accelerate their cloud migration strategy. The new features protect content, apps, and APIs, accelerate web and mobile experiences, and help make development teams more agile as they move to the cloud. “Eighty-five percent of companies today have a hybrid cloud strategy, but many have begun to realize that the cloud brings significant challenges to security,...

A bug exposed photos from up to 6.8 million users using third-party apps, . The exposed photos include those that users never finished sharing to the site, Facebook said. The disclosure is one of the company has grappled with over the past year. In March, reports from and shed light on how Cambridge Analytica used data on Facebook users to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In September, it announced a that affected up to...

Two days after Cisco patched a severe vulnerability in a popular brand of SOHO routers, and one day after the publication of proof-of-concept code, hackers have started scans and attacks exploiting the said security bug to take over unpatched devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1663, was of note when it came out on February 27 because it received a severity score from the Cisco team of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. Source: ZDNet

North Korean hackers who have targeted American and European businesses for 18 months kept up their attacks last week even as President Trump was meeting with North Korea’s leader in Hanoi. The attacks, which include efforts to hack into banks, utilities and oil and gas companies, began in 2017, according to researchers at the cybersecurity company McAfee, a time when tensions between North Korea and the United States were flaring. But even though both sides...

More than 3,000 GPs are at risk of breaching data protection laws if they sign up to a new way of sharing childhood vaccination data, the BMA has warned. The new extraction system, which shares immunisation data between GP systems and the Child Health Information Service (CHIS), could be sharing more data than the law allows. The new system uses a process that copies, transfers and stores the whole GP database, rather than the minimal...

18 MongoDB databases with information generated by accounts on several online social services in China have been sitting on the web ready for plucking by anyone knowing where to look. It appears that they are part of a country-wide surveillance program that collects profile-related data (names, ID numbers, and photos) along with GPS locations, network info, public and private conversations, and file exchanges. Source: Bleeping Computer