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Following the devastating attack on Colonial Pipeline, the largest refined products pipeline in the United States, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a fact sheet focusing on the threat posed by ransomware to operational technology (OT) assets and industrial control systems (ICS).

Edge security and content delivery giant Akamai Technologies has tapped Boaz Gelbord to lead its cybersecurity program.

At the latest Group of Seven (G7) summit, held June 11-13 in the UK, Western leaders called on Russia to take action against those who conduct ransomware attacks and other cybercrimes from within its borders.

Cyber skills development platform provider Immersive Labs today announced that it raised $75 million in Series C funding. The round brings the total raised by the company to $123 million.

Google is offering U.K. regulators a role overseeing its phasing out of ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser, in a package of commitments the tech giant is proposing to apply globally to head off a competition investigation.

Several cybersecurity-related acquisitions and mergers were announced between June 7 and 13, 2021.

Seeking to protect its image as a guardian of personal privacy, Apple maintains it was blindsided and handcuffed by a Trump administration probe that resulted in the company handing over phone data from two Democratic congressmen.

Volkswagen Group of America this week revealed that approximately 3.3 million people might have been affected in a data breach that impacted both Audi of America and Volkswagen of America (together VWGoA).

The FBI’s director told lawmakers Thursday that the bureau discourages ransomware payments to hacking groups even as major companies in the past month have participated in multimillion-dollar transactions aimed at getting their systems back online.

Christopher Ahlberg wants to “build a significant threat-intel company” and he isn’t shy about looking externally for technology innovation around data intelligence tools.

The U.S. Department of Justice this week announced charges against Vikas Singla, the chief operating officer of a metro-Atlanta cybersecurity company, for allegedly targeting the Gwinnett Medical Center in a disruptive cyberattack.

RSA Security this week announced that its fraud and risk intelligence unit has become a new standalone company named Outseer.

Fast food giant McDonald's on Friday said hackers breached their servers and accessed data from customers in Taiwan and South Korea.

GitHub this week disclosed the details of an easy-to-exploit Linux vulnerability that can be leveraged to escalate privileges to root on the targeted system.The flaw, classified as high severity and tracked as CVE-2021-3560, impacts polkit, an authorization service that is present by default in many Linux distributions.

Federal police broke Canada's privacy laws by using a US company's controversial facial recognition software in hundreds of searches, an independent parliamentary watchdog ruled Thursday.

Southeast Asian e-commerce platform Lazada on Thursday announced the launch of a public bug bounty program with YesWeHack.

California-based gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed that hackers gained access to some of its systems and managed to steal source code, but claimed that no user data was compromised.

Italy has created a national cybersecurity agency following warnings by Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Europe needed to protect itself from Russian "interference."The new agency was approved in a cabinet meeting late on Thursday.

Law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and Romania have taken down the stolen login credentials marketplace Slilpp, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday.

Malicious hackers are exploiting an old VPN security flaw to compromise SonicWall SRA (secure remote access) devices, according to a warning from security vendor CrowdStrike.