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Travel pressure around privacy and compliance is forcing mobile endpoint software to evolve. Media coverage of recent airport phone searches has privacy enthusiasts worried, and Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has IT security and compliance teams thinking about data-loss policies.

A 20-year-old Bulgarian cybercrime specialist has been arrested over a hack and leak of a trove of taxpayer data, which authorities had initially suspected was a Russia-linked cyberattack, an official said Wednesday.

Oracle this week published its July 2019 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which brings a total of 319 security fixes across numerous product families.While fewer than 200 of these vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication, over 50 of them are rated Critical severity, almost all of them featuring a CVSS score of 9.8.

Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system’s network offline several times a day.There was no breach of sensitive data files, but the attacks in which somebody deliberately overwhelmed the Avon Public Schools system in Connecticut still proved costly. Classroom lesson plans built around access to the internet had come to a halt.

Bulgaria ordered Tuesday a probe into the leak of a trove of taxpayer data in a Russia-linked cyberattack that was disclosed on the same day the former Soviet satellite nation moved to buy US-made F-16 jet fighters.

Cybersecurity firms Vertical Structure and WhiteHat Security on Tuesday reported that their researchers discovered a serious vulnerability that gave remote attackers access to millions of files stored on thousands of exposed Lenovo network-attached storage (NAS) devices.

Shares of cybersecurity giant Symantec plunged on Monday following reports that the company’s acquisition talks with Broadcom have stalled due to a disagreement over price.Several major news outlets reported in early July that chipmaker Broadcom had been in advanced talks to acquire Symantec in a deal that could exceed $15 billion.

Pennsylvania’s message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020. Last April, its top election official told counties they had to update their systems. So far, nearly 60% have taken action, with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand-new electoral systems.

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