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US tech giant Microsoft pledged Thursday to process and store all European cloud-based client data in the European Union amid unease in the region over the reach of US legislation on personal data collection.

As threat actors attempt to remain undetected to carry out attacks, they often use a variety of tools to obscure their identities and activity. Organizations meanwhile leave their networks and activity open for inspection by anyone who chooses to perform basic reconnaissance. 

Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.

The United States Department of Defense this week announced an expansion of the scope of its vulnerability disclosure program to include all of its publicly accessible information systems.

Unmasking a threat actor at an individual level could help you to gain more context, determine why the attack occurred, and quantify future risk

Red Hat this week announced that it’s taking the first steps towards open-sourcing the StackRox container security product for Kubernetes.

Israeli cybersecurity testing firm Cymulate announced today that it has raised $45 million through a Series C funding round.

Google makes Chrome for Windows more resilient to vulnerability exploitation with new mitigation technologyStarting in version 90, Chrome for Windows improves resilience against vulnerability exploitation by adopting Hardware-enforced Stack Protection.

A new threat actor that appears to be financially motivated has targeted many organizations in the United States and other countries using several new pieces of malware, FireEye reported on Tuesday.

Cyber asset management and governance solutions provider JupiterOne on Tuesday announced that it raised $30 million in Series B funding, which brings the total raised by the company to more than $49 million.The funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.

I’m glad this column is coming out now instead of earlier this year. Cloud security is more topical than ever when considering all the fun things that have happened in 2021 with security startups!

The Android operating system updates released by Google for May 2021 patch a total of 42 vulnerabilities, including four considered critical severity.

The company providing internet services for Belgium’s parliament, government agencies, universities and scientific institutions said Tuesday that its network was under cyberattack, with connections to several customers disrupted.

Armed with $68 million in funding to date, the company plans to double its team and scale up its business

Security researchers document 21 major security vulnerabilities in Exim and warn that users are exposed to remote code execution flaws 

Owners of Dell devices were informed on Tuesday that a firmware update driver present on a large number of systems is affected by a series of high-severity vulnerabilities.

A new variant of the Buer malware loader has been detected, written in Rust. The original version is written in C. Rust is efficient, easy-to-use, and an increasingly popular programming language – Microsoft uses it, and joined the Rust Foundation in February 2021.

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro on Monday announced a new endpoint security solution developed by TXOne Networks for devices in operational technology (OT) environments.

The enterprise security world is complex and confusing where we want to believe in the possibility of clean linear solutions for asymmetrical problems. Learning from past history and our current challenges should be enough of a lesson in the failure of security processes and products not delivering in their attempts to make the day-to-day routine of security professional lives easier.

Cyber protection solutions provider Acronis on Tuesday announced that it has raised $250 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion.