Friday, 13 February 2026

PHOENIX: BeyondTrust has announced PowerBroker for Unix & Linux 9.4. PowerBroker, the most mature Unix and Linux least privilege platform available, is the first of its kind to offer file integrity as part of the least privilege agent. File integrity monitoring (FIM) is a technology to monitor and protect system files which many organizations are embracing to support compliance mandates and to reduce the risks of malware. By monitoring sensitive files in real time administrators are proactively notified of suspect activities that may be related to privilege misuse or malware including file modification or encryption.

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London, UK: Sopra Steria has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency status. This designation recognises Sopra Steria for delivery of effective solutions and providing deep expertise to help organisations manage critical issues pertaining to the industry, such as digital transformation, core systems implementation, migration, data management, navigating compliance requirements and risk management.

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NuData Security has released its new intelligence which provides insight into the ominous cyber fraud threats coming over this Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend.

NuData Security Threat Intelligence Highlights Risk Around Cyber Monday

Fraudsters use ever-morphing cyber fraud methods over the holidays. NuData's intelligence supports industry trends that e-commerce is increasingly mobile and high-risk.

Threat intelligence from NuData Security, released today, provides insight into the ominous cyber fraud threats coming over this holiday period.

Fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated cyber fraud techniques and leveraging spikes in activity over Cyber Monday and holiday shopping periods to circumvent detection. As merchants and financial institutions implement additional security layers for automation, account takeover and fraud detection, hackers are evolving to find more complex and pervasive ways to commit fraudulent activities online. Much like a virus mutates in response to a vaccine, hackers are finding new ways of infiltration.

NuData Security analyses over 80 billion behavioural events annually over its customer base, and this month alone, have performed real-time analysis on 40 billion data points. NuData findings are such:

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News has broken that the Japanese Defence Ministry and Self-Defence Forces were the target of a cyberattack in September this year that may have compromised Japan's internal military network. It remains unclear if the attack was was by a foreign nation state, or hackers outside state institutions. Commenting on this news below is Mike Ahmadi, Global Director, Critical Security Systems at Synopsys says:

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