According Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, 83% of medical imaging devices run on unsupported operating systems, which makes them potential avenues for attackers.

“There was no impact on our production environment nor any exfiltrated data,” a Qualys spokesperson said.

“It was a record quarter, driven by our commercial cloud, which surpassed $16 billion in revenue, up 34% year over year,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.

Its second BeyondCorp zero-trust security product adds enterprise security capabilities and a partner ecosystem that includes VMware, Citrix, Crowdstrike, and Tanium.

It’s an extension of Fortinet’s endpoint detection and response platform, and it uses artificial intelligence not just for threat response, but also for threat investigation efforts.

“It’s heartbreaking to talk to a grandmother who lost pictures of her grandkids. This is as dramatic, if not more, than talking to a business who might go down

“‘WarGames’ was important because it showed all of us, and people in government, the problems we would need to work together to solve,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said.

Cisco and Acacia Communications will move forward with their merger after all, but it will cost about $2 billion more than the original price.

The general consensus among pundits and analysts is that CEO Pat Gelsinger’s departure doesn’t bode well for VMware — at least in the short term.

The vendor claims that Armis Asset Management can see about five-times more assets compared to standalone endpoint detection and response and configuration and vulnerability management tools.

“Acacia intends to vigorously defend itself against Cisco’s claims,” Acacia CEO Murugesan Shanmugaraj said. “And earlier today, we filed counterclaims in that litigation.”

Fortinet’s XDR “is largely underrated,” analyst Zeus Kerravala said. “They have a stronger offering than the market understands.”

“Cisco is also seeking a court mandate that the agreement may not be terminated until the court resolves these matters, and an order from the court requiring Acacia to

“We’re bullish on gaining market share in a $10-billion-plus [total available market] that’s growing faster than any other segment of the security markets,” Lacework CEO Dan Hubbard said.

A SolarWinds investor filed a class-action lawsuit against the software vendor alleging that its executives failed to disclose security vulnerabilities that led up to the massive attack.

Fortinet extended its free security training indefinitely after receiving more than 800,000 registrations since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“And now we have two of the three largest OEMs — HPE and Cisco — adopting and supporting Open19,” said Open19 Foundation president Zachary Smith.

Microsoft admitted that the suspected Russian hackers accessed its internal source code, and a New York Times report indicates the attack hit about 250 U.S. federal agencies and large

The world’s biggest technology vendors’ battles boiled over in 2020, and this year the feuds stretched from the clouds to court and even to a galaxy far, far away.

While 2021 will (hopefully) usher in mass immunizations against COVID-19 and the beginning of the so-called post-pandemic new normal, ransomware’s not slowing down in the year ahead.

The lawsuit alleges Ramaswami breached his legal and contractual duties to VMware by “secretly meeting” with Nutanix’s top brass while working with VMware’s leadership to shape that company’s strategy.

The new capabilities use technology that VMware acquired from Octarine, and they build on VMware’s Cloud Workload Protection that it announced at VMworld.

VMware’s ravenous appetite for smaller companies continued this year, and we wouldn’t put it past the virtualization giant to ink another deal or two before the ball drops on

The group, formed by the Institute for Security and Technology, will provide recommendations to reduce the threat posed by ransomware in the next two to three months.