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More than 400 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019 and over a quarter of them had no patches when their existence was made public, according to a report published on Thursday by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos.

Have you finalized your agenda for RSA Conference 2020? The security industry’s seminal event is just around the corner and this year’s theme is “Human Element”. Empowering the human element of cybersecurity is a theme I believe we can all get behind. Here are three reasons why it resonates for me:

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Microsoft Threat Protection, its integrated security solution aimed at offering protection across users, email, applications, and endpoints.

Britain and the United States on Thursday accused Russia of orchestrating a "reckless" cyber assault against Georgia last year as part of an aggressive campaign of online attacks worldwide.

Fidelis Cybersecurity has announced a raft of enhancements to its Fidelis Elevate platform, which comprises a network product, an endpoint product, and a deception product. The purpose of the platform is to help defenders understand their environment better than attackers -- which is not always true -- and to arm the defenders with the ability to detect and respond to evasive incursions.

Mobile cybersecurity firm Wandera has warned that document management apps made by Cometdocs can expose users’ files. Cometdocs has disputed the severity of the findings and has threatened legal action against reporters.

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Baltimore, MD-based ZeroFOX has raised $74 million in a new funding round led by Intel Capital and including existing vendors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital. It brings the total funding raised by ZeroFOX to $154.2 million.

CrowdStrike Names New CTO as Dmitri Alperovitch Leaves to Start Policy Accelerator Focused on National Security and Foreign Policy Challenges

Amazon-owned home security and smart home company Ring this week announced new security and privacy features for all of its users.

When it comes to high-value assets, few industries can come close to financial services. It’s not just the obvious fact that banks are giant warehouses of money—banks represent critical pieces of infrastructure that entire economies rely upon. 

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival's campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

The European Union unveiled proposals Wednesday to regulate artificial intelligence that call for strict rules and safeguards on risky applications of the rapidly developing technology.

Researchers Find Internet-Exposed, Poorly Protected Out of Band Consoles Commonly Used in Maritime and Oil & Gas Industries

Endpoint security firm SentinelOne on Wednesday announced that it has raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, at a valuation of more than $1.1 billion, which gives the company “unicorn” status.

Vulnerabilities in two popular WordPress plugins, ThemeREX Addons and ThemeGrill Demo Importer, are being exploited to hack websites.

Google this week announced that users in 10 countries can now take advantage of the hardware based two-factor authentication (2FA) functionality offered by the Titan Security Keys. 

Washington has the right to block US federal agencies from buying products by Huawei on cybersecurity grounds, a judge has ruled, dismissing the Chinese telecom giant's legal challenge to a purchase ban.

Cybersecurity focused venture investor ForgePoint Capital has closed its second fund (Fund II) with $450 million in capital commitments, the firm said Wednesday. 

A ransomware infection at a natural gas compression facility in the United States resulted in a two-day operational shutdown of an entire pipeline asset, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed on Tuesday.