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The adoption of DevOps has implications for security teams, regardless of whether the name evolves to become “DevSecOps” or some other inclusive term. Digital transformation in the business – using software services to compete – requires faster code releases, which DevOps can deliver.

Sqrrl, a Cambridge, Mass.-based big data analytics startup that is commercializing NSA technology to help organizations detect threats lurking in their infrastructure, has been acquired by Amazon.The company announced Tuesday that it has been acquired by Amazon and would be joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) family.

Bell Canada has started informing customers that their personal data has been compromised in a breach that reportedly affects up to 100,000 individuals.

Numerous SamSam attacks over the past month or so have paid off to the ransomware’s operators, as they made over $325,000 in a short period of time, security researchers with Cisco Talos say.

Dell, HP and other system manufacturers have advised customers not to install the recent BIOS updates designed to address the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities due to unstable code delivered by Intel.

The continuous use of compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has helped cybercriminals increase the complexity of their assaults, NETSCOUT Arbor says. 

The recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which affect hardware running in the majority of the world’s computing devices have made headlines recently. The list of at risk equipment includes workstations, servers, phones, tablets, as well as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, Google ChromeOS, Apple macOS on most Intel chips manufactured after 2010.

Intel on Monday said that users should stop deploying patches for the “Spectre” and “Meltdown” chip vulnerabilities disclosed by researchers earlier this month, saying the patches could cause problems in affected devices, including higher than expected reboots and other “unpredictable” system behavior.

Cybersecurity has gone through many changes over the past decade. From being a niche sector, rarely taken seriously or understood, to underpinning national security, economic growth and the availability of financial infrastructures. In the process it has become a large, high growth and consequently overfunded market. 

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