In the days prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and thereafter, there have been numerous people in the infosec business who have predicted that there would be a massive outbreak of what they characterised as cyber-conflict between these two countries. But little or nothing has eventuated.



According to security vendor Radware's 2021-2022 Global Threat Analysis Report, the number of malicious web application requests climbed 88% – more than double the year-on-year growth rate in distributed denial-of-service attacks, which rose 37%.

Russian security vendor Kaspersky has denied rumours that the source code of its products have been leaked, with the denial coming in the wake of the leak of source code from Samsung's Galaxy devices.

Business intelligence solutions Genetec unveils Streamvault Edge, a line of connected appliances enabling transition to a hybrid-cloud infrastructure.

Juniper Networks announced a university funding initiative to fuel strategic research to advance network technologies for the next decade.

Samsung Electronics announced that its fully-virtualised 5G RAN was awarded CTO Choice: Outstanding Mobile Technology Award and the Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough at the annual Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2022.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

HELPFUL LINKS