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In a signal move for the cybersecurity sector, identity and access management (IAM) vendor SailPoint has made its return to public markets.

The chief deputy attorney general of the agency sent an email on Wednesday that said nearly all of is computer systems were offline.

Former RNC official Sean Cairncross has been nominated for the post of National Cyber Director to streamline the US cybersecurity strategy.

In the latest edition of “Rising Tides” we talk with Lesley Carhart, Technical Director of Incident Response at Dragos.

Meta received close to 10,000 vulnerability reports and paid out over $2.3 million in bug bounty rewards in 2024.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Google pays $10,000 bug bounty for YouTube vulnerability, Cybereason CEO sues two investors, Otorio launches new OT security tool.

The exploitation of a recent SonicWall vulnerability has started shortly after proof-of-concept (PoC) code was published.

China-linked APT Salt Typhoon has been exploiting known vulnerabilities in Cisco devices in attacks on telecom providers in the US and abroad.

ClearSky Cyber Security says it has seen a new Windows zero-day being exploited by a Chinese APT named Mustang Panda. 

Identity management provider SGNL has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Brightmind Partners.

Attempts to exploit CVE-2024-0108, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, started one day after disclosure. 

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The US arm of networking giant TP-Link has appointed Adam Robertson as Director of Information and Security.

Cyber exposure management firm Armis has promoted Alex Mosher to President.

Software giant Atlassian has named David Cross as its new CISO.

Dan Pagel has been named the new CEO of risk management and remediation firm Brinqa.

The City of Phoenix has promoted Mitch Kohlbecker to the role of Chief Information Security Officer.

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ClearSky Cyber Security says it has seen a new Windows zero-day being exploited by a Chinese APT named Mustang Panda. 

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Rapid7 finds a new zero-day vulnerability in PostgreSQL and links it to chain of attacks against a BeyondTrust Remote Support product.

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An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024.

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A subgroup of the Russia-linked Seashell Blizzard is tasked with broad initial access operations to sustain long-term persistence.

The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited Windows zero-days.

Intel says roughly 100 of the 374 vulnerabilities it patched last year were firmware and hardware security defects.

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