Political campaigns face particularly tough cybersecurity challenges because they essentially operate as large, distributed enterprises with thousands of employees.

VMware pushed Kubernetes automation; Amazon promised a hiring spree; and IBM went all in on AI.

Diario uses a new type of artificial intelligence specifically trained to detect malware that generally evades traditional antivirus technology.

For CTI League members, the daily grind means preventing cyberattacks on hospitals and checking cyberthreat feeds for potential public health and safety dangers.

“Now that we’re all much more aware of the implication of the pandemic, we have to realize that a cyber pandemic can expand much faster than a biological one,”

CEO Mike Hogan said its container application security testing service provides a more complete package than current offerings.

Microsoft acquired CyberX; VMware lassoed Lastline; Equinix plotted a $750M Canadian expansion; plus the latest VC/M&A news from June.

Palo Alto Networks and Aqua Security researchers say cryptojackers are inserting malicious images into containers to mine for Monero.

The new firewall embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to stop threats, secure IoT devices, and recommend security policies essentially in real-time.

Lastline is known for its anti-malware research and artificial intelligence-powered network detection and response.

Three reports show cyberattacks continue to mutate along with COVID-19, and they indicate that businesses aren’t as secure as they think.

Cisco’s latest security report, based on a survey of almost 500 SMBs, aims to debunk myths about smaller companies’ security posture and threats.

IBM and Fortanix doubled down on confidential computing; Google Anthos built a bridge to AWS; and Arista baked AI into its WiFi software.

Dynamic Threat Analysis protects containerized applications from image-based malware by automatically running images in a secure sandboxed environment.

Browser isolation is like social distancing. But instead of protecting people from pandemics, browser isolation protects users from malicious code.

Between 2016 and 2019, Necurs was the most prominent spam and malware-delivery method and was responsible for 90% of the malware spread by email worldwide.

This contributes to what VMware calls “intrinsic security,” which is a theme that the virtualization giant has been leaning into since its concerted push into the security sector.

This anonymized data from the operators’ security operations centers and investigations is then pooled using AT&T’s OTX platform.

The security startup has about a dozen paying customers and is “working with some of the largest service providers,” said CEO Guru Pai.

“Beginning in the next 24 hours you will see cyberattacks manifesting as a harbinger for kinetics attacks,” said VMware Carbon Black’s Tom Kellermann.

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Only 16% of the devices Nokia monitors are IoT devices, but 78% of the malware comes from IoT devices.

The worm has been named “Graboid” in honor of the 1990’s movie “Tremors.”

Trinity Cyber led the pack with its $23 million Series A round led by Intel Capital.