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Acceleration of XIoT unlocked business opportunities and ignited security innovation

There was a significant increase in ransomware-related data leaks and interactive intrusions in 2021, according to the 2022 Global Threat Report released on Tuesday by endpoint security firm CrowdStrike.

Cambodia is delaying an internet gateway that had raised concerns around privacy and free speech, halting its planned mid-week implementation due to Covid-19 related disruptions, a government official said Tuesday.

Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a 10-year-old lawsuit accusing it of tracking users online even after they logged off the social network, court records show.

Ransomware attacks have increased in volume, sophistication and ransom demanded consistently over the last few years. According to published records, the education and retail industries are the most targeted.

A series of cyberattacks on Tuesday knocked the websites of the Ukrainian army, the defense ministry and major banks offline, Ukrainian authorities said, as tensions persisted over the threat of a possible Russian invasion.

A ransomware group has taken credit for the recent attack targeting aviation services company Swissport, and the cybercriminals claim to have stolen more than one terabyte of data.

Technology giant Google is offering bigger cash awards for hackers reporting critical security flaws affecting the Linux Kernel, GKE, Kubernetes, and kCTF.

Proofpoint’s security researchers have taken a deep dive into the activity of TA2541, a threat actor targeting the aerospace, aviation, defense, manufacturing and transportation sectors for years.

VMware on Tuesday announced that it has patched several high-severity vulnerabilities that were disclosed last year at a major Chinese hacking contest.

Taiwan-based NAS and NVR solutions manufacturer QNAP Systems on Monday announced that it is extending the security update window for some devices that have reached end-of-life (EOL) status.QNAP typically provides security updates for four years after a product has reached EOL status.

The BlackByte ransomware has been used in attacks on at least three critical infrastructure sectors in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) warn in a joint advisory.

Several vulnerabilities, including some that have been rated “critical,” were found in the past months in Moxa’s MXview industrial network management software.

Google on Monday announced the release of 11 security patches for Chrome, including one for a vulnerability exploited in the wild.

Google once used the slogan "don't be evil" to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are rallying to the mantra "don't be Google".They are taking on Google Analytics, a product used by more than half of the world's websites to understand people's browsing habits.

Webinar reunites inventors of onion routing to talk about the past, present, and future of their invention

A team of Israeli entrepreneurs with roots in the application security ecosystem is taking a stab at software supply chain security with big backing from Bessemer Venture Partners.

Risk Based Security on Monday released its vulnerability report for 2021 and revealed that a record-breaking 28,695 flaws were disclosed last year, which represents a significant increase from the 23,269 disclosed in 2020.

Behavior-based financial fraud prevention and compliance platform Sardine has completed a $19.5 million Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $24.5 million.