All posts by Chris Tribbey

Vulnerability and Patch Report, Sept. 10, 2017 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates Avira Antivirus: Avira has released version 15.0.30.29 of its free Antivirus. Updates are available from Avira’s website. Dropbox: Dropbox has re... More

Featured Jobs: Kroll; Irdeto; Box

Director, Process and Tech Opps — Reston, VA — Kroll Product Operations Analyst — North Hollywood, CA — Irdeto Offensive Security Engineer— Redwood City, CA — Box ... More

IBC 2017: MESA Members to Showcase M&E Solutions in Amsterdam

(This is the first of two stories previewing what MESA’s members are up to at this month’s IBC conference) The U.S. may have CES and the NAB Show, but on the international s... More

Avid Exec: College Partnerships Continue to Grow

Recently, Avid Technology marked a milestone, passing the 25 mark when it comes to college sports programs, across both the U.S and Canada, who use the company’s tools and workfl... More

Deluxe’s Method Studios Names Global Production Operations Leaders (MESA)

As Deluxe's Method Studios continues to integrate new VFX and VR and AR operations, the studio has added several new global leaders, including the promotion of Eric Combrié to chi... More

Veritone: Combining Apps with Cognitive Computing to Transform Unstructured Data

Costa Mesa, Calif.—based Veritone may only be a few years old but it’s already garnered some of the biggest names in the business, coming to it for its proprietary platform, on... More

Kroll Names Peters Associate Managing Director, Cyber Security, Investigations Practice, London (CDSA)

Kroll, a global leader in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience, security, and incident response solutions, today announced the appointment of Ioan Peters a... More

Vulnerability and Patch Report, Sept. 3, 2017 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates Avast: Avast has released version 17.6.2310 for Free Antivirus. Updates are available on Avast’s website. Avast! has also released updates for Premi... More

Featured Jobs: Prime Focus Technologies; Sony Pictures; Avanade

Security Tester — Bangalore, India — Prime Focus Technologies Information Security Manager — London — Sony Pictures Cloud Infrastructure Consultant— NYC — Avanade ... More

IBC 2017: NexGuard, Ericsson Partner to Launch Network ID Watermarking (MESA)

NexGuard, a Kudelski Group company and provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, today announced its Network ID product, launched as a technology partnership wi... More

Cast & Crew Taps Berkley as President

Tech-enabled payroll, accounting and production management solutions provider Cast & Crew has named John Berkley as its president, a newly formed role that sees the veteran tec... More

Vulnerability and Patch Report, Aug. 27, 2017 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates AxCrypt: AxCrypt has released version 2.1.1534.0. Updates are available from AxCrypt’s website. Dropbox: Dropbox has released version 33.4.23 for... More

Featured Jobs: CBS; NSS Labs; Cognizant

Business Information Security Officer — NYC — CBS DevOps Security Engineer — Austin, TX — NSS Labs Vulnerability Management Lead — Beaver, PA — Cognizant Click he... More

Caringo Offers 100 TB Swarm Object Storage License to M&E Firms

Scale-out cloud and object storage platform firm Caringo Aug. 29 announced it’s begun offering a fully featured, 100 TB license of its Swarm object storage system to media and en... More

Kreth Named Executive Director of EIDR

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), a global registry of unique content identification for digital content distribution, has named Will Kreth as its new executive director, the g... More

Digital Bedrock: A New Approach to Content Preservation

From teaching digital asset management, archiving, and cataloguing courses at UCLA and NYU, to running the nonprofit, historical preservation Audiovisual Archive Network service, L... More

Irdeto: Kodi, Facebook Live Used for Mayweather vs. McGregor Piracy

Everything from social media services to media player platforms were used to illegally stream the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor boxing match Aug. 26, according to digital pla... More

Vast Media Smart Screen Round-Up: VMAs, ‘The Defenders’ and an Eclipse

Here’s a run-down of recent second screen-related entertainment items, via Berlin-based research and consulting company Vast Media. • Ahead of the Aug. 27 “Video Music Awa... More

SDI Media Names Simms CIO

Content services provider SDI Media has added former Condé Nast International CTO Natalie Simms as its new CIO, giving the long-time industry vet oversight of SDI’s global IT fu... More