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Respond Software, a California-based company that specializes in helping security teams become more efficient through automation technology, on Tuesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

On Sunday, May 12, 2019, security researcher Willem de Groot tweeted, "Supply chain attack of the week: @Picreel_  marketing software got hacked last night, their 1200+ customer sites are now leaking data to an exfil server in Panama." He later added, "And also hacked: http://CloudCMS(.)com with some 3400 sites."

SAP this week released of 8 Security Notes as part of its SAP Security Patch Day for May 2019, which also included 5 updates to previously released Notes.

An Israeli spyware company named in a Financial Times report on a WhatsApp security flaw prides itself on "rigorous, ethical standards" despite previous links to alleged espionage.- Pocket spy -

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is willing to sign a "no-spy" agreement with countries including Britain, the firm's chairman said on Tuesday, as the head of NATO said Britain must preserve secure mobile networks.Liang Hua visited Britain as the government weighs the risks of allowing the Chinese company to help develop its 5G infrastructure.

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day and a flaw that can be exploited by malware to spread similar to the way the notorious WannaCry did back in 2017.

A ban on facial recognition for law enforcement in San Francisco highlights growing public concerns about technology which is seeing stunning growth for an array of applications while provoking worries over privacy.

California-based Boost Mobile, founded in 2000 as a joint venture with Nextel Communications and now a Sprint subsidiary, has warned an unspecified number of customers about unauthorized online account activity on March 14, 2019.

Twitter on Monday revealed that a bug in Twitter for iOS led to the micro-blogging platform inadvertently collecting location data and sharing it with a third-party.

Adobe’s Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 fix a critical vulnerability in Flash Player and more than 80 flaws in the company’s Acrobat products.

If you’re a film buff like me, you’ve probably seen The Imitation Game, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Alan Turing. The movie tells the story of Turing who, In 1939,  was recruited by the newly created British intelligence agency MI6 to crack the Nazi’s cryptography machine Enigma, which cryptoanalysts of the day thought unbreakable.

Facebook on Monday announced that it is getting ready to kick off its first global Capture the Flag (CTF) competition. 

Security updates Apple released this week for iOS, macOS, Safari, tvOS and watchOS include patches for 21 vulnerabilities that affect open source web browser engine WebKit.

A use-after-free vulnerability in SQLite could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on a vulnerable machine, Cisco Talos security researchers have discovered. 

The May 2019 Patch Tuesday advisories from Siemens address over a dozen vulnerabilities, including serious flaws affecting the company’s LOGO and SINAMICS Perfect Harmony products.

There are two primary characteristics of the Brazilian hacking scene: a focus on Brazil, and the adaptability of the hackers. Very strict money laws make trans-border money movement difficult, ensuring that most targets remain local; and the hackers tend to move on to new targets when the current one becomes too difficult.

When an attractive young Middle Eastern woman contacted Saudi dissident Ali AlAhmed over Twitter last November, he was immediately suspicious.