Security news bulletin - Wednesday 18 April

Welcome to this week's security news bulletin. This is where you'll find updates from around the web on what's happening in cybersecurity, from technology releases to changes in legislation.

Security news from the Packt Hub

Report warns of the growing threat of cryptojacking

YouTube gets hacked

Security news from across the web

Google Cloud Platform adds new security service to protect against DDoS attacks. Google wrote a blog post explaining the features making this possible: Cloud "Armor [the name of the feature] works with Cloud HTTP(S) Load Balancing, provides IPv4 and IPv6 whitelisting/blacklisting, defends against application-aware attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi), and delivers geography-based access control."

Google planning to build a 'walled garden' around Gmail. This decision is an obvious step for Google as it looks to push it's paid-for version of email much harder. However, it is notable that for all the security bells and whistles it has announced, it hasn't said anything about end to end encryption. Clearly, the need to keep the government happy remains high on the agenda for the company...

Leonovus announces partnership with IT security experts SynerSolutions

npm Acquires ^Lift Security and the Node Security Platform. The partnership shouldn't really come as a huge surprise, as the teams have history. They've been working together for number of years. npm wrote on Medium that "Adam Baldwin and his team have joined npm to work full time on keeping the npm Registry and npm applications safe, and to develop new products to help developers and their companies securely develop JavaScript."

Humio Partners With Corelight To Bring Comprehensive Network Visibility And Fast, Affordable Log Management To Businesses. Humio, the log management software company, have teamed up with network monitoring tool Corelight to tackle today's biggest challenges in identifying and acting on security threats. Essentially, it should give greater visibility on potential attacks and points of vulnerability.