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Malicious hackers are targeting SAP applications at an alarming pace, according to warnings from Onapsis and Flashpoint.

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Silicon Valley startup Anvilogic has raised $45 million in a Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigating a ransomware attack in which hackers stole sensitive data.

Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies have released joint guidance on securely deploying and operating AI systems. 

Cisco patches a high-severity Integrated Management Controller vulnerability for which PoC exploit code is available.

Cherry Health says the personal information of over 180,000 individuals was stolen in a ransomware attack.

LabHost, a major phishing-as-a-service platform, has been shut down as part of a major law enforcement operation. 

Cisco announces Hypershield, an AI-native and cloud-native enterprise security solution with a wide range of capabilities.

Kapeka is a new backdoor that may be a new addition to Russia-link Sandworm’s malware arsenal and possibly a successor to GreyEnergy.

YL Ventures leads an early stage funding round for Miggo Security, a Tel Aviv startup working on application detection and response technology.

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MSSP Dataprise has appointed Nima Khamooshi as Vice President of Cybersecurity.

Backup and recovery firm Keepit has hired Kim Larsen as CISO.

Professional services company Slalom has appointed Christopher Burger as its first CISO.

Allied Universal announced that Deanna Steele has joined the company as CIO for North America.

Former DoD CISO Jack Wilmer has been named CEO of defensive and offensive cyber solutions provider SIXGEN.

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Malicious hackers are targeting SAP applications at an alarming pace, according to warnings from Onapsis and Flashpoint.

Join this one-day virtual summit as we shine the spotlight on the shadowy dynamics of ransomware attacks and how you can best prepare your…

Silicon Valley startup Anvilogic has raised $45 million in a Series C funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigating a ransomware attack in which hackers stole sensitive data.

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Wave Systems, a Massachusetts-based provider of security, data protection and encryption solutions, today launched a subscription-based cloud service to help enterprises simplify management of self-encrypting drives (SEDs).

NEW YORK - (AFP) - The Reuters News website has been hacked for the second time this month, with a fake report that Saudi Arabia's foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal has died, the news agency said Wednesday."The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday," Reuters said on its website.

Adobe rolled out a set of patches on Tuesday, addressing more than 20 security issues. The patch that is being hailed as the most important, however, is one for Flash Player that has been actively exploited in order to compromise Windows-based systems.

Cloud and managed hosting provider giant Rackspace Hosting today released Rackspace Private Cloud Software, a new offering powered by OpenStack that makes it easy for organizations to deploy their own multi-node private cloud environment anywhere they choose.The company said the newly released software uses the same OpenStack compute platform that is used to run Rackspace’s own datacenters. 

Microsoft released nine security bulletins today addressing 26 vulnerabilities in its products. Five of the bulletins are rated 'critical', and cover issues in Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Server Software and Developer Tools. From a priority standpoint, Microsoft recommended organizations deploy three critical updates first – MS12-060, MS12-052 and MS12-054.

Imation Corp., an Oakdale, Minnesota-based storage and data security company, today expanded its "Defender" line of secure USB hard drives, adding drives with capacities of up to 1 terabyte (TB), with an option for biometric fingerprint authentication, and new USB drive management tools.

Trusteer is reporting that they have discovered a new attack utilizing the Citadel Trojan. According to a blog post from the security firm, Citadel is targeting an enterprise VPN belonging to a major international airport, but they have withheld the name.

Oracle has released a patch for a vulnerability (CVE-2012-3132) disclosed by David Litchfield from Accuvant Labs during the Black Hat security conference last month. The vulnerability, which is SQL Injection at its core, allows an attacker to gain high-level privileges, and take complete control over the server.

The malware responsible for attacks on at least 30 local governments, universities, and businesses in the Netherlands, Dorifel (XDocCrypt), is still actively spreading and causing new infections, despite a wide net of detection within the anti-Virus market.

IT security and data protection company, Sophos, on Monday launched Sophos Mobile Control 2.5, the latest version of its offering in the increasingly competitive mobile device management (MDM) space. The latest update brings an updated web-based admin console and new features designed to provide IT administrators with a simple way to offer BYOD in the enterprise.

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