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The article focuses on the collaboration between the organization the Freedom of the Press foundation and the Guardian Project to develop a mobile app Haven. It talks about the application working as a sensor on the Android operating platform to detect intruders withing the personal information in the smartphone.

The article focuses on the trending cyber-security systems for organizations for the year 2018. It talks about the ransomware, addition of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the growing use in the artificial intelligence (AI). It speaks about the cyber threat faced by Africa.

The article reports that bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system soars to a new record high, as of December 7, 2017, surpassing 7,000 U.S. dollars for the first time. It mentions that the cryptocurrency has had a bullish streak throughout the week following the announcement of different trade exchanges to introduce bitcoin as futures contracts.

Sean Michael Kerner and Gus Evangelakos of XM Cyber discuss how businesses can use breach and attack simulation to improve security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses that Akamai Technolies Inc. has released its State of the Internet Security Summer 2018 report on June 26, 2018 which discusses the current state of web application and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. It is stated the report has also found that DDoS attack volume has also reached a record high of 1.35T bps.

The article announces the appointment of Ben Golub, a former chief executive officer (CEO) of software company Docker Inc., as the executive chairman and interim CEO of blockchain-based distributed storage vendor Storj Labs.

The article offers brief information on the IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) aimed at protecting organizations against cyber-security threats.

The article evaluates the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 desktop operating systems and the iOS 11.2 mobile operating systems from Apple.

Nearly five years after Red Hat last released a major version update, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now generally available, providing organizations with new features to help manage modern application deployment infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The second major Linux kernel milestone release for 2019 is now available, bringing with it support for using persistent storage as regular system memory, as well as a new Linux Security Module (LSM). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At DockerCon 19, the CEO of Docker provides some clarity on a breach that impacted his company, as it prepares to move forward with new application development and cloud native technology efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The OpenStack Foundation kicks off its inaugural Open Infrastructure Summit, confirming a pair of top-level projects and expanding its Ironic bare metal cloud efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the Open Infrastructure Summit, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announces a new commercial support program for open infrastructure and criticizes the OpenStack Foundation's efforts to look beyond its core cloud platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At DockerCon 19, Docker Inc announces the latest release of its flagship commercial platform in a bid to help make container development, deployment and management easier for enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widely used container application repository is the victim of a data breach, though Docker Inc. reports the impact is restricted to a small subset of users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: The 2019 Trustwave Global Security Report identifies several positive trends for that state of cyber-security, even as attackers continue to evolve and some areas of cyber-security are getting worse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers from the Unit 42 threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks discovered a vast network of scam affiliate marketing sites that were using subdomains set up on compromised GoDaddy users accounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The same core vulnerability that enabled the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 is still being used by attackers looking to exploit vulnerable systems, according to Symantec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flashpoint is adding new visibility for dark web account and card store data alongside an enhanced dashboard in an effort to deliver actionable intelligence that advances the state of security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

VMware is including the Pod Security Policy capability, which is still considered to be a beta feature in the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native container orchestration project, as a supported component in its enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams continue to grow as one of the leading categories of internet fraud, though there is hope, as the FBI's efforts to recover assets are seeing some success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Google outlines the approach it has taken to help mitigate risks from Cross Site Scripting (XSS) web flaws by using Content Security Policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: By 2023, Forrester is forecasting that the global market for cloud security solutions will reach $12.7 billion, as organizations across multiple sectors continue to deploy mission-critical workloads in the public cloud. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oracle releases its second critical patch update set for 2019, patching a total of 297 issues spread across its software portfolio, though one issue in particular could be more critical for users to patch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook revises the impact of its March 2019 password disclosure security incident to include "tens of millions" of Instagram users, highlighting the continued challenges the social media giant faces to keep user information secure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, outlines new open-source Linux innovations that are coming in the Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo release. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mozilla advances its internet of things (IoT) effort with WebThings, providing a gateway and a framework to help users connect devices in a secure way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nation-state backed group of attackers that Cisco Talos is identifying as "Sea Turtle" have been actively exploiting domain name information, by going after domain registries for entire countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: Red Hat's annual State of Enterprise Open Source report reveals that some organizations are still concerned about security, though overall adoption is growing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK VIDEO: BlackBerry CTO Charles Eagan explains where his company's cyber-security efforts are headed and why, after 35 years and many technological changes, BlackBerry is fundamentally on the same mission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NEWS ANALYSIS: Potentially millions of Microsoft email users on Outlook, Hotmail and MSN mail had their email information exposed after a Microsoft support person was breached, exposing a wider issue on the new risks that cloud-hosted services expose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: What do developers want? Apparently, they love Rust and Python, according to the latest Stack Overflow developer survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Imperva has discovered a new attack in which hackers abused a commonly used HTML5 attribute to launch a DDoS attack that generated 70 million requests hitting a target website in a four-hour span. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK DATA POINTS: IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute asked global IT executives what they do to keep their organizations cyber-resilient and discovered interesting insights about the state of modern cyber-security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At Google Next, new and enhanced services debut to help organizations have improved visibility and control over cloud resources, to limit potential security risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IBM X-Force has uncovered multiple malware campaigns that are spoofing major accounting and payroll firms, in an attempt to infect organizations with a financial trojan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The OpenStack Stein release introduces new multi-cloud orchestration capabilities as well as enhancements to help enable edge computing use-cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Verizon is now in the process of updating millions of routers to help protect users against a series of vulnerabilities that could have potentially enabled exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sysdig is set to launch its Cloud-Native Visibility and Security Platform (VSP) 2.0, providing organizations with integrated capabilities to manage workload performance and security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SUSE claims that it will soon be the largest Linux independent vendor in the world, as it looks to grow a larger cloud footprint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cyber-criminals aren't just hiding on the dark web. Many are also operating openly on social media sites like Facebook, according to new research from Cisco's Talos research unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers from UpGuard have discovered two separate un-secured cloud storage buckets, holding Facebook user information, once again putting the social network's users at risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AppOmni looks to provide visibility to help organizations secure Software-as-a-Service cloud applications from potential data leakage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The open-source Apache Web Server project has patched six flaws in the new 2.4.39 update, including a critical issue that could potentially put cloud and shared web hosting providers at risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Xen Project is continuing to enhance performance and boost security in its latest open-source hypervisor release. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chef realigns its product portfolio and strategy to be 100 percent open-source, as it moves away from an open-core model in an effort to help advance software automation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

eWEEK VIDEO: McAfee CTO Steve Grobman provides insight into why artificial intelligence is more than just a buzzword - it's the foundation for improved cyber-security outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]