News Untangle Intros SD-WAN Router in New Security Framework By David Ramel 03/07/2019 Network security firm Untangle announced a new security framework that leverages new-age technologies such as software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) for its approach to provide security orchestration across the enterprise. The Untangle Network Security Framework is designed to provide protection, monitoring and control […]
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RSA Conference 2019: Firms Continue to Fail at IoT Security
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RSAC 2019: For Domestic Abuse, IoT Devices Pose New Threat
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Patched Chrome exploit worked hand-in-hand with critical Windows bug
Google has revealed the ‘highly severe’ Chrome flaw patched last Friday was being actively exploited in conjunction with a Windows 7 vulnerability that has still not been fixed. The first flaw, found in Chrome and dubbed CVE-2019-5786, was a use-after-free memory mismanagement error that was being actively exploited in the wild to pull off remote […]
Google fixes ‘highly severe’ zero-day Chrome exploit
Google has confirmed that a Chrome browser patch released last week was a fix for a critical flaw that was being exploited by criminals to inject malware onto a user’s device. The company is urging Chrome users to immediately update their web browsers to the latest version, released last week, in light of the discovery of […]
Microsoft-backed Affle acquires Singapore based online-to-offline platform Shoffr
Microsoft-backed consumer intelligence company Affle has acquired Singapore based online-to-offline (O2O) platform Shoffr in a cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition includes the business, brand name, intellectual property rights, business relationships, assets and employees of Shoffr, people in the know, said. The deal is effective February, one of them said. Financial terms weren’t available. Affle India and […]
Microsoft-backed Affle acquires Singapore based online-to-offline platform Shoffr
Microsoft-backed consumer intelligence company Affle has acquired Singapore based online-to-offline (O2O) platform Shoffr in a cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition includes the business, brand name, intellectual property rights, business relationships, assets and employees of Shoffr, people in the know, said. The deal is effective February, one of them said. Financial terms weren’t available. Affle India and […]
How blockchain will manage networks
Ethernet networking technology is flawed, say some engineers. The problem is it doesn’t have any inherent security built in to it. Ethernet also hard to manage because it’s centralized. It’s out-of-date, and it needs revamping, researchers say. One attempt to address the issue is the Marconi protocol, which is a strategy to shift network and […]
RuPay has issued 64 million global cards using the Discover network
National Payments Corporation of India run domestic card scheme RuPay said that they have issued 64 million global cards meant for international transactions which run on the global card scheme Discover’s platform. The cards are accepted across 41 million merchants across 190 countries and has more than 200 offers running. “We have been focusing on […]
Can Zuckerberg really make a privacy-friendly Facebook?
FILE – In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a […]