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Vincent Strubel, who heads France’s national cybersecurity agency, called the cyberthreats level facing the Olympic Games unprecedented.

Germany accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other government and industrial targets.

Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell pledges significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features.

Israeli startup LayerX Security banks $25 million in new financing as investors continue to pour money into secure web browsing technologies.

The US government warns of a North Korean threat actor abusing weak email DMARC settings to hide spear-phishing attacks.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: 4,000 take part in Locked Shields 2024 exercise, Qantas and JP Morgan hit by data exposure bugs, NVIDIA patches critical flaw. 

A botnet dismantled in January and used by Russia-linked APT28 consisted of more than just Ubiquiti Edge OS routers.

CISA and the FBI warn of threat actors abusing path traversal software vulnerabilities in attacks targeting critical infrastructure.

An analysis of IoCs suggests that a Chinese threat group may be behind the recent ArcaneDoor espionage campaign targeting Cisco firewalls.

SaaS-based, AI-assisted penetration service allows proactive defensive action against exploitation of new vulnerabilities.

Microsoft has uncovered a new type of attack called Dirty Stream that impacted Android apps with billions of installations. 

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Passwordless authentication firm Hawcx has appointed Lakshmi Sharma as Chief Product Officer.

Matt Hartley has been named Chief Revenue Officer at autonomous security solutions provider Horizon3.ai.

Trustwave has announced the appointment of Keith Ibarguen as Senior Vice President of Engineering.

Lital Asher–Dotan has been hired as Chief Marketing Officer at Beyond Identity.

Tidal Cyber announced that Jennifer Leggio has been appointed Chief Operating Officer.

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Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell pledges significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features.

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The US government warns of a North Korean threat actor abusing weak email DMARC settings to hide spear-phishing attacks.

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Dropbox says hackers breached its Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords. 

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Vincent Strubel, who heads France’s national cybersecurity agency, called the cyberthreats level facing the Olympic Games unprecedented.

Germany accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other government and industrial targets.

Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell pledges significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features.

Israeli startup LayerX Security banks $25 million in new financing as investors continue to pour money into secure web browsing technologies.

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On October 21, 2002, the Internet’s core root server system as a whole came under a significant attack. A coordinated distributed denial-of-service attack aimed to knock the 13 domain name system root servers – the closest thing the Internet has to a single point of failure – offline. Had it succeeded, electronic communications would have eventually frozen up and e-commerce would have slowly ground to a halt. The economic consequences could have been dire.

From interacting on social network sites, to disabling company installed security software so they can access restricted Web sites, most employees were more focused on individual concerns and conveniences than their company's overall IT security, according to the 2010 Trend Micro survey on corporate and small business end users.

On demand IT security risk and compliance solutions provider, Qualys, and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), have expanded their technology partnership to make QualysGuard vulnerability management and IT policy compliance data available to RSA’s client base.

Top 10 Malware Threats for AprilSunbelt Software has announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of April 2010. With nine of ten detections from March still on the list for April, it shows continued prevalence of Trojan horse programs circulating on the Internet. A new loader for a rogue security product making it into the top 10.

IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced that it has reached an agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to private equity group Apax Partners. The transaction will value the company at $830 million. Following the transaction, the founders of Sophos will retain a significant minority shareholding.

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Adobe is providing incentives for bug bounty hackers to report security flaws in its implementation of Content Credentials and Adobe Firefly.

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Microsoft security chief Charlie Bell pledges significant reforms and a strategic shift to prioritize security above all other product features.