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Data protection firm BigID announced on Thursday that it has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to nearly $100 million.

A Massachusetts mayor says hackers demanded $5.3 million from his city in a ransomware attack this summer.New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell disclosed Wednesday that a variant of the Ryuk virus blocked access to information on 158 city computers in July. The Standard-Times reports the city had previously blamed an unspecified virus.

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday announced the acquisition of IoT security firm Zingbox for $75 million in cash, and made public its financial results for the fiscal year 2019.Zingbox provides a cloud-based lifecycle management solution that uses AI and machine learning technologies to identify, secure and optimize devices.

CircleCI, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in continuous integration and delivery solutions, on Thursday informed customers that some of their information may have been exposed through a third-party analytics vendor.

WordPress developers on Thursday announced the availability of version 5.2.3, a maintenance and security release that includes 29 fixes and enhancements, along with several security patches.

Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the social media giant, US media reported Wednesday.

Every day we seem to hear of new and interesting linkages discovered by the medical and scientific communities. Just yesterday there was a report that young people who vape are 3.5 times more likely to try or use marijuana, compared to those who don’t. Today, I heard another report on the radio stating if a person can keep their blood pressure in check, especially in middle age, it could lower the risk of developing dementia.

The risk associated with crimeware is underestimated, despite a continuous increase in attacks involving financially motivated malware, a new report from Alphabet-owned security firm Chronicle reveals.

Facebook said technology firms and US officials met at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Wednesday to collaborate on protecting next year's presidential election from cyber threats.

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has decided to temporarily disable the feature that allows users to post tweets via SMS, in an effort to protect accounts.

Google agreed Wednesday to pay $170 million to settle charges that it illegally collected and shared data from children on its YouTube video service, a deal critics said was too soft on the internet giant.

The operators behind the TrickBot malware have made heavy use of evasion and anti-analysis techniques in recently observed attacks, security researchers warn.

Google this week released a new set of security patches for the Android platform, to address nearly 50 vulnerabilities in multiple components, including two critical flaws impacting the Media framework.

An SMS phishing attack against many modern Android phones could route all internet traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. The problem lies in weak (sometimes non-existent) authentication for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning.

In light of the growing number of mega breaches (e.g., MEGA Collection #1, Dunkin’ Donuts, Citrix) and the ongoing ransomware epidemic, politicians on both sides of the aisle are pushing for legislations that would allow organizations to take an offensive posture vis-à-vis attackers — often called “hack back”.