Enterprise Password Manager Passwordstate Hacked in Supply Chain Attack
The News: Enterprise Password manager Passwordstate, an Australian-based enterprise password management app offered by Click Studios alerted customers late last week of a breach that the company said occurred between April 20 and 22nd. Read the advisory from Click Studios here. Enterprise Password Manager Passwordstate Hacked in Supply Chain Attack Analyst Take: The compromise of […]
The US/UK Governments Issue Cybersecurity Advisory on Russian Threat Actor Activity
The News: A joint advisory was published on Friday, May 7, 2021 by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, the FBI, and the NSA focused on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and their tactics, techniques and procedures used to target victims. These reports focus on threats posted […]
Peloton’s Leaky API is Hubris Personified — at Least When It Comes to User Personal User Safety and Data Privacy
The News: Peloton’s leaky API, which exposed private user data, was in the news alongside some other not-so-great news for the fitness brand this last week. The leaky API was first reported by Tech Crunch’s Zach Whittaker, and you can read his story here. Analyst Take: It has most definitely not been a great few […]
Automation Anywhere Announces Early Access to Google Cloud-Powered Automation 360
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the announcement by Automation Anywhere of early access to its Google Cloud-powered Automation 360 platform for Google Cloud customers. Automation 360 is the first cloud robotic process automation (RPA) solution resulting from the company’s partnership with Google Cloud, with a goal of enabling making automation easier for organizations to embrace and adopt.
Cybersecurity Shorts — Google’s 2FA Mandate, Peloton’s Leaky API, and Password Management App Malware
In this episode of Futurum’s Cybersecurity Shorts, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans tackle topics ranging from Google’s rollout of mandatory 2FA, Peloton’s leaky API and the impact on users’ data privacy, the targeting of Passwordstate, an Australian-based enterprise password management app, the massive DDoS attack against a Belgian ISP and its broad impact, to a joint advisory published by CISA and the UK’s National Cybersecurity Centre on Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
In Hacking News: 3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records and Ties to Government Emails
In this Cybersecurity Shorts episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss the 3.2 billion password leak recently released in an online form. This 100GB data set includes 2.18 million unique emails and 26 million email domains, including some 1.5 million world government emails and 625,000-ish U.S. government passwords. Even more alarming is what the human behavior that’s involved here shows threat actors looking for targets
China-linked Hackers use Pulse Connect Secure VPN Flaw to Target Federal Agencies
In this quick vignette from the Futurum Tech Webcast Cybersecurity Shorts series, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss the China-linked hack of the Pulse Connect VPN and the targeting of a multitude of federal civilian agencies and financial institutions.
Cybersecurity Shorts — China-linked VPN hack, Bipartisan Cybersecurity Efforts, New Study from HP on Nation-State Cyber Incidents and more
In this new series for the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans focus exclusively on cybersecurity, in a series we’re calling Cybersecurity Shorts. They’ll be tacking six cybersecurity topics in quick succession each week and if you’re in the cybersecurity business, this is one show you’ll want to be sure is on your radar screen.
5 Reasons It’s Time to Leave your Legacy System and Migrate to a Cloud-Native System
Migrating to a cloud-native system is not as complicated as it might seem and is worth it more in the long run. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores five reasons it’s time to leave your legacy system.
Ericsson on Moving BSS Cloud Journeys Forward – The Platform Perspective – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Interview Series, Futurum analyst’s Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall were joined by Ericsson’s Jason Keane, Head of Digital BSS Product and Solution Line at Ericsson for a conversation around moving BSS journeys to the cloud, and what to consider from the platform prospective with insights from our recently released research report The BSS-to-cloud journey: Powering innovation across the digital value chain.
A Sneak Preview of PegaWorld iNspire 2021
In this short video, I’m joined by Pegasystems Jeff Nicholson to discuss why now is the time to adopt the right technology for your customer experience needs. Jeff also gives us an inside look at Pega’s upcoming virtual event PegaWorld iNspire which will take place on May 4, 2021. Watch the clip: To hear the […]
Exploring the Technology Needs for Today’s Customer Service
In this conversation, I am joined by Pegasystem’s Jeff Nicholson to explore how companies handled the influx of customer questions and claims during the pandemic, and what technology was needed to be effective and efficient. Watch the clip: To hear the entire conversation, check out the episode here. Disclaimer: The Futurum Tech Webcast is for […]
