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Investors make an early-stage $6.5 million bet on BreachRx, a startup promising to shield cybersecurity executives from personal liability.

VulnCheck banks $8 million in early stage capital to build ‘exploit intelligence’ technologies and services.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OpenSSF and OpenJS incidents similar to XZ backdoor, Moldovan botnet operator charged, US automotive company targeted by FIN7.

While over 400 AI-related bills are being debated this year in statehouses nationwide, most target one industry or just a piece of the technology — such as deepfakes used in elections.

New US guidance details foreign malign influence operations to help election infrastructure stakeholders increase resilience.

Akira ransomware has hit over 250 organizations worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments.

Telecom giant Frontier shuts down systems to contain a cyberattack that led to personal information compromise.

Microsoft warns that several OpenMetadata vulnerabilities are being exploited to deploy cryptomining malware to Kubernetes environments.

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.

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Bill Dunnion has joined telecommunications giant Mitel as Chief Information Security Officer.

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.

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Telecom giant Frontier shuts down systems to contain a cyberattack that led to personal information compromise.

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

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Mandiant summarizes some of the latest operations of Russia’s notorious Sandworm group, which it now tracks as APT44.

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Investors make an early-stage $6.5 million bet on BreachRx, a startup promising to shield cybersecurity executives from personal liability.

VulnCheck banks $8 million in early stage capital to build ‘exploit intelligence’ technologies and services.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OpenSSF and OpenJS incidents similar to XZ backdoor, Moldovan botnet operator charged, US automotive company…

While over 400 AI-related bills are being debated this year in statehouses nationwide, most target one industry or just a piece of the technology…

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CipherCloud, a provider of cloud encryption technologies, has launched a cloud encryption gateway for Office 365 that transparently encrypts all email, calendar, and contact data stored in Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online and third-party Hosted Exchange services.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in collaboration with the CERT Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), is launching a new education and certificate program designed for information security executives that will emphasize “strategic cybersecurity management”.

StrikeForce Technologies, TradeHarbor Partner on Three-Factor Authentication Using Voice Verification TechnologyStrikeForce Technologies, a provider of our-of-band authentication and security solutions, will combine voice verification software with its out-of-band authentication platform to create "three-factor" verification for customers increasingly worried about being compromised.

Researchers at malware intelligence firm FireEye are reporting that Dutch authorities have pulled the plug on two secondary servers used by the Grum botnet. The removal of the servers shines light on how quickly some law enforcement agencies work, given that proof of their existence is just over a week old.

Skype has said they are aware of, and will patch, an odd bug that created a privacy issue by sending instant messages to a completely different party. The bug itself is buried somewhere within the massive amounts of client code, and is only triggered during a crash.The issue, according to a notice from Skype’s Leonas Sendrauskas issued on Monday, only happens when a user's Skype client crashes during an IM session. When this happens, some users may have the last...

Norman ASA has updated its Malware Analyzer G2 platform to enhance its ability to fight malware. The Malware Analyzer G2 platform is designed to help analysts inspect malware effectively. In version 3, Norman has included multiple IntelliVM modules to enable multiple pieces of malware to be inspected in parallel as well as the ability to analyze almost any Windows application or file. The product delivers IntelliVM plugins in Python scripts for development and extension of each analysis, according to the...

LockPath, an Overland Park, Kanas-based provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced that it has closed a $6 million series B financing round led by El Dorado Ventures.The company says its “Keylight platform” helps organizations of all sizes address regulatory compliance and risk management needs.

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