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Is Backup Alone Enough, or is Full Disaster Recovery Required to Mitigate the Threat of Ransomware?To pay, or not to pay? Is it better to suffer the pain and outage of ransomware – or pay up, and by doing so, end it?

Video game peripherals maker SCUF Gaming recently exposed to the web a database containing information on more than 1.1 million users.

We’re all familiar with the expression ‘Trust but verify.’ Unfortunately, when it relates to protecting their networks, most organizations rely on trust but don’t verify that their security solutions are working as they should.

San Jose, Calif.-based cloud security firm Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) said it will acquire Redmond, Wash.-based startup Cloudneeti for an undisclosed sum. Cloudneeti offers cloud security posture management to prevent and remediate misconfigurations in SaaS, IaaS and PaaS.

Hackers managed to breach two websites pertaining to the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in March 2020, the airport has revealed.

Dutch police on Friday arrested a 19-year-old man from Breda suspected of launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a government website.As a result of the attack, Overheid.nl and one of its subdomains, Mijn.Overheid.nl (MijnOverheid), were knocked offline for several hours on March 19.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week announced that it reached a settlement with two of the traders charged last year over their roles in a scheme that involved hacking the organization’s EDGAR electronic filing system.

Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone "contact tracing" tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person.

Cato Networks, a firm poised to take advantage of the sudden acceleration of business transformation and working from home caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised $77 million in a Series D funding round.

Data access and governance provider Okera this week announced the closing of a $15 million Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $29.6 million. 

Sophos this week announced that the source code of isolation tool Sandboxie is now publicly available.

Researchers have found a database of Zoom video conferencing credentials ranging from just an email and password to also include meeting IDs, names and host keys. Full credentials could be used a range of activities from zoombombing to BEC attacks.

Dell on Friday announced the launch of Dell SafeBIOS Events & Indicators of Attack, a utility designed to alert IT and security teams about BIOS configuration changes that could be part of a sophisticated attack.

The hovering drone emits a mechanical buzz reminiscent of a wasp and shouts down instructions in a tinny voice."Attention! You are in a prohibited area. Get out immediately," commands the drone, about the size of a loaf of bread.

VMware has patched a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to compromise vCenter Server or other services that rely on the Directory Service for authentication.

The United States threatened Thursday to cut off Beijing-controlled China Telecom from serving the US market because of legal and security risks, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

An exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket belonging to RigUp was found to expose tens of thousands of private files belonging to organizations and individuals in the U.S. energy sector, vpnMentor reports.

The Hoaxcalls botnet is actively targeting a recently patched SQL injection vulnerability in Grandstream UCM6200 series devices, security researchers warn.

London-based data privacy company Privitar this week announced that it has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round, which brings the total amount raised to date to more than $143 million.

Microsoft Sees 60,000 COVID-19 Phishing Emails Every DayThe number of COVID-19-themed attacks has increased significantly over the past couple of months, but they represent only a fraction of daily threats, security firms say.