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Let’s Encrypt | October 01, 2021

On Thursday, around 10 AM (EST), the root certificate provided by Let’s Encrypt expired, and the internet flooded with issues reported by several services and websites worldwide. Security researcher, Scott Helme, had already warned about the expiration of Let’s Encrypt’s IdentTrust DST Root CA X3. He predicted the expiration will take place on September 30 and post expiry, the devices, web clients, and computers will no longer be able to verify certificates issue...

Forcepoint | June 01, 2020

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today announced Myrna Soto has joined the company as Forcepoint’s inaugural Chief Strategy and Trust Officer. In this newly-created role, Soto will serve as a strategic business and technology driver of the company’s enterprise vision, strategy and programs to protect people, critical data and IP both within the company and for thousands of Forcepoint customers around the globe. As Chief Strategy and Trust Officer, Soto will also serve as a glob...

Software

Gnani.ai | September 22, 2021

Gnani.ai, a frontrunner in Conversational AI and voice security domain, today announced the launch of its home-grown Voice Biometrics software. Christened armour365™, the biometric solution boasts of path-breaking features to cater to new and emerging risks in fraud prevention and information security. armour365™ Voice Biometrics works on 300 plus proprietary audio features and comes with out-of-the-box integrations to multiple contact center software providers and messaging apps. Read More

Venturebeat | May 04, 2020

NYU researchers released work on arXiv that applies data augmentation they say also achieves state-of-the-art results on the DeepMind control suite. Huawei AI researchers introduced Adversarial AutoAugment for improving data augmentation policy. ...