Cybercrime
California’s Department of Justice mistakenly posted the names, addresses and birthdays of nearly 200,000 gun owners on the internet because officials didn’t follow policies...
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Data Protection
Google is rolling out new features in Chrome to better protect users online and to improve their control over personal data.
Data Protection
Microsoft has started introducing support for post-quantum algorithms in SymCrypt, its main cryptographic library.
Data Protection
The IT and data security firm raises $319 million in a Series E round led by Google Ventures and is now valued at $3.5...
Compliance
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €290 million ($320 million) for driver data transfer practices that allegedly violate GDPR.
Data Protection
Audit finds weaknesses in FBI’s inventory management and disposition procedures for drives containing sensitive information.
Cybersecurity Funding
Fabric Cryptography has raised $33 million in Series A funding to create the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU), a new chip for cryptography.
Application Security
Pangea Cyber, an early stage startup working on technology in the API security services space, has banked $26 million in a new funding round...
Application Security
Almost exactly a year after the Log4Shell security crisis sent defenders scrambling to reduce attack surfaces, new data shows that remediation has been a...
Cybersecurity Funding
Venture capital investors have invested another $31 million into Sphere Technology Solutions, a New Jersey startup building technology to help defenders manage identities and...
Application Security
Vulnerability researchers at Google Project Zero are calling attention to the ongoing “patch-gap” problem in the Android ecosystem, warning that downstream vendors continue to...
Cybercrime
A massive Twitter data breach disclosed a few months ago appears to be bigger than initially reported.
Application Security
Security researchers at Proofpoint are calling attention to the discovery of a commercial red-teaming tool called Nighthawk, warning that the command-and-control framework is likely...
Application Security
Threat detection firm CloudSEK has identified thousands of applications leaking Algolia API keys, and tens of applications with hardcoded admin secrets, which could allow...
Compliance
Attorneys general in 33 US states are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take into consideration consumer risks as it looks into creating...
Application Security
Cybersecurity powerhouse Palo Alto Networks on Thursday announced plans to spend $195 million in cash to acquire Israeli startup Cider Security, a deal that...
Application Security
The U.S. government on Wednesday issued a blunt recommendation for organizations running VMWare Horizon servers: Initiate threat-hunting activities to find and expel Iranian APT...
Application Security
Israeli early-stage startup Akeyless has banked a whopping $65 million in venture capital funding to build technology to help businesses manage credentials, certificates, keys...
Nation-State
Apple said there's “too significant a risk” of exposing the anti-exploit work needed to fend off the very adversaries involved in the case.
Data Breaches
Malware & Threats
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Endpoint Security
Microsoft is revamping how anti-malware tools interact with the Windows kernel to avoid another CrowdStrike faulty update catastrophe.
