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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it requires Thales to divest its General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP HSM) business before it can proceed with the proposed purchase of Gemalto for $5.67 billion. This condition is in line with the requirement of other antitrust and monopolies authorities around the world.

Over the past two years, China-linked cyber-espionage group Emissary Panda has used an array of tools and intrusion methods in attacks on political, technology, manufacturing, and humanitarian organizations, Secureworks reports. 

For the last few months, it’s been hard to avoid Marie Kondo. Author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and star of the Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Her advice is everywhere today, but did you know that her advice also applies to visiting the RSA Conference? 

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), headed by the Commissioner for Data Protection, Helen Dixon, has published its first annual report since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018. It shows that Europeans are taking their new privacy rights very seriously. In the five months of 2018 pre-GDPR, the DPC received 1,249 privacy complaints. In the seven months post-GDPR, it received a further 2,864.

The Montreal-based United Nations aviation agency concealed for months a hack of its computers and allowed malware to spread throughout the airline industry, Canada's public broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Application security solutions provider Cequence Security has raised $17 million in Series B funding round. To date, the company has secured $30 million in funding. 

The lawyers for a Russian suspected of bitcoin fraud and wanted by three countries said Thursday that the man's health is deteriorating due to a hunger strike, and criticized the Greek courts for detaining him for more than the maximum 18 months allowed.

California-based application security company Contrast Security on Thursday announced that it raised $65 million in a Series D funding round, which brings the total raised by the firm to $122 million.

With Context to Understand and Prioritize Security Data and Alerts You Can Stay Focused on What Matters Most

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled two new cloud-based security products and services — Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts — designed to make it easier for security teams to do their job.

The Dow Jones Watchlist, a dataset of 4.4 Gigabytes, was found exposed in an unprotected Elasticsearch database on an AWS server. The Watchlist is used by many of the world's largest organizations as part of their due diligence for both large and small contracts and transactions. While it contains the financial status of companies, it also includes sensitive information about individuals.

RSA Conference 2019 (RSAC) is just a few days away and the theme this year is “Better”. Better solutions and better connections for a better, safer world. Last year, more than 600 exhibitors packed the show floor and the level of innovation was impressive. I expect to be similarly impressed next week. 

Hyperconnected Digital Environments Are Raising the Stakes for Security Teams Even Higher

Intel and its partners this week made several cybersecurity-related announcements, including the launch of new silicon-enabled products and tools.

Facebook's feature allowing users to erase all their data is set to be released this year, many months after it was announced by the leading social network.

Obsidian Security, a California-based provider of identity protection solutions, on Wednesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to $30 million.

A technology worker suspected of spying for Russia has been arrested in Stockholm, the Swedish authorities said Wednesday.The person was believed to have been "recruited as an agent by a Russian intelligence officer posing as a diplomat in Sweden", head of counter intelligence at Sweden's security service Daniel Stenling said.

Cisco Talos’ security researchers warn of a spike in attacks on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters, coming from six distinct actors.

US lawmakers opened a debate Tuesday over privacy legislation in the first step by Congress toward regulation addressing a series of troublesome data protection abuses by tech firms.

Exploit detection service EdgeSpot says it has spotted several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome to collect information on users who open the files through Google’s web browser.