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COMPANY NEWS: Tenable, the exposure management company, today announced that it has named Shai Morag to the role of chief product officer. Morag will focus on delivering increased momentum and scale across Tenable’s entire portfolio, driving the company’s next era of growth by building security products for a cloud-first world.

Microsoft has made no mention of a critical security flaw in its Azure cloud platform in its monthly issues of patches on Tuesday, though the company claimed earlier this month that it had completely fixed the issue.

The group of attackers revealed to have compromised SolarWinds Orion monitoring software back in December 2020 are claimed to be back again, and Microsoft has given them a new name to boot.

Microsoft claims it has completely fixed a critical security issue in its Azure cloud platform, found in March by researchers from security firm Tenable, who then told Microsoft about it. Tenable chief executive and chairman Amit Yoran had claimed in a blog post on Wednesday that it took more than 90 days for Microsoft to effect a partial fix.

Microsoft was notified in March about a critical flaw in its Azure platform by security firm Tenable, but the company took more than 90 days to effect a fix that was only partial, Tenable chairman and chief executive Amit Yoran claims.

Microsoft has been accused of a lack of transparency in its vulnerability practices, with the security outfit Tenable claiming these practices put the software giant's customers at risk.

A serious vulnerability in the Log4j Java-based logging library is affecting many enterprise applications and cloud services.

The executive order on cyber security issued by the US on Thursday will be judged by whether it can stop the next attack similar to the Colonial Pipeline attack or the SolarWinds supply chain fiasco, the head of a security firm says.