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Cisco AppDynamics has today announced a significant addition to its executive leadership team with the appointment of Eric Schou as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The appointment comes at a key moment for AppDynamics as it continues to assert its leade… Continue reading Eric Schou joins Cisco AppDynamics as CMO
deepwatch announced the appointment of two prominent cybersecurity industry executives to its newly formed board of advisors, which will provide support and guidance for deepwatch’s strategic growth initiatives. The advisors include Jody Len, previousl… Continue reading deepwatch appoints two cybersecurity industry executives to Board of Advisors
An increasingly active Chinese government-linked hacking group impersonated Indian government agencies with phishing lures related to COVID-19 statistics and tax legislation, researchers say. It was the continuation of a campaign that dates to the earliest days of the pandemic, Blackberry said in a blog post Tuesday. The company tied together several threads of operations by APT41, a joint cyber-espionage and cybercrime organization that investigators have repeatedly tied to Beijing and that Blackberry said was responsible for the India-themed phishing lures. The permutation targeting India preyed on the same fears that hacking groups began seizing on in after the coronavirus outbreak. BlackBerry on Monday didn’t answer questions about the timeframe in which APT41 sent the India-themed lures, what its possible motives were and what industries the emails targeted. “The image we uncovered was that of a state-sponsored campaign that plays on people’s hopes for a swift end to the pandemic as […]
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A flaw in software made by BlackBerry has left two hundred million cars, along with critical hospital and factory equipment, vulnerable to hackers — and the company opted to keep it secret for months. Politico: On Tuesday, BlackBerry announced that ol… Continue reading BlackBerry Resisted Announcing Major Flaw in Software Powering Cars, Hospital Equipment
A critical set of software flaws first revealed in April also affects code made by BlackBerry that is used in countless devices in the medical, automotive and energy sectors, the technology vendor confirmed on Tuesday. A hacker who exploits the so-called BadAlloc software vulnerabilities, which Microsoft researchers uncovered, could cause devices running the software to crash. In BlackBerry’s case, the attacker would need to first gain access to a targeted network and then go after devices that are exposed to the internet. The affected software is BlackBerry’s QNX Real-Time Operating System, a suite of software that manages data across a network. It’s unclear just how many devices are running the affected BlackBerry software. The firm said last year that its QNX software was embedded in more than 175 million cars alone. A BlackBerry spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “These vulnerabilities may introduce risks for certain […]
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Stellar Cyber announced that LMJ Consulting is using the Stellar Cyber platform to add MDR services to its offerings. LMJ Consulting has been providing EDR services (based on BlackBerry/Cylance’s EDR-as-a-Service) to MSSPs throughout the West Coast, an… Continue reading LMJ Consulting uses Stellar Cyber platform to add MDR services to its offerings
Stellar Cyber announced that it has partnered with BlackBerry to accelerate adoption of AI-powered security solutions for enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs). Both companies are pioneers in using AI and machine learning to elimin… Continue reading Stellar Cyber partners with BlackBerry to offer AI-powered security solutions for enterprises and MSSPs
SailPoint Technologies announced the appointment of Ron Green to the SailPoint Board of Directors, effective on July 27, 2021. The Board determined that Mr. Green is independent, a term defined under the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange… Continue reading SailPoint appoints Ron Green to its Board of Directors
By Paul Dokas, Keith Jones, Anthony Kasza, Yacin Nadji, & Vern Paxson – Corelight Labs Team Recently Blackberry analyzed a new GoLang Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named “ChaChi.” This sample was interesting in that it tunnels information over DNS as … Continue reading Corelight Sensors detect the ChaChi RAT
Software industry veteran Adrian Szwarcburg has joined DigitSec, provider of the AppSec testing platform purpose-built for Salesforce, as senior vice president of business development. Szwarcburg most recently was vice president of channel sales and pa… Continue reading Adrian Szwarcburg joins DigitSec as SVP of business development