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ThreatMate has raised $3.2 million in seed funding for its AI-powered attack surface management solution for MSPs.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: NanoLock Security ceases operations, NSO publishes transparency report, cybersecurity salaries data.  

Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

UK engineering firm IMI says it suffered a cyberattack that resulted in unauthorized access to some of its systems.

University Diagnostic Medical Imaging and Allegheny Health Network have disclosed data breaches impacting approximately 430,000 patients.

An analysis by Chainalysis shows that ransomware payments dropped to $813 million in 2024, from $1.25 billion in 2023. 

Trimble Cityworks is affected by a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks involving the delivery of malware.

A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices.

Zimperium warns that threat actors have stolen the information of tens of thousands of Android users in India using over 1,000 malicious applications.

Astra Security and Invary have received new funding to fuel development of their vulnerability scanning and runtime security solutions.

Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.

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Gigamon has promoted Tony Jarjoura to CFO and Ram Bhide has been hired as Senior VP of engineering.

Cloud security firm Mitiga has appointed Charlie Thomas as Chief Executive Officer.

Cynet announced the appointment of Jason Magee as Chief Executive Officer.

Ajay Garg has joined Saviynt as Chief Development Officer.

Penetration testing and offensive security firm Cobalt has named Gunter Ollmann as Chief Technology Officer.

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Hospital Sisters Health System says the personal information of 883,000 individuals was compromised in a 2023 crippling cyberattack.

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A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices.

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Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.

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David Kennedy is a hacker. There is no doubt about that. He has qualities common among hackers, but also many differences.

Multiple Zyxel legacy DSL CPE products are affected by exploited zero-day vulnerabilities that will not be patched.

AMD has released patches for a microprocessor vulnerability found by Google that could allow an attacker to load malicious microcode.

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Delta Air Lines today announced that David DeWalt, former president, chief executive officer and director at McAfee, has joined the company’s board of directors.DeWalt served as president, chief executive officer and director of McAfee from April 2007 until February 2011, after Intel’s surprise $7.68 billion acquisition of McAfee. DeWalt resigned from his role as President at McAfee in July 2011. 

The Philippines Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) said on Saturday that with the help of the FBI, four people have been arrested and stand accused of running remote toll scam in order to fund terrorism.

The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Francis Maude, published a set of plans on Friday outlining the UK’s goals over the next four years that will introduce sweeping changes to the nation’s cyber security posture.In all, Maude said that the plan is to spend £650m GBP over the next four year on a National Cyber Security Program (NCSP), designed to make the UK, “one of the most secure places in the world to do business.”

Hungarian Hacker Pleads Guilty After Hacking into Marriott Computers and Extorting Job in Company's IT DepartmentA tough global economy has certainly created challenges for many people looking for jobs, but one Hungarian man took things to another level in an effort to gain employment at hotel giant Marriott International.

With Cyber Monday just days away, online shopping will surge, and with that will come a jump in online fraud attacks, causing problems for both consumers and merchants. According to Shop.org, more than half of all workers plan to shop online on Cyber Monday while on the clock, and are predicted to spend $1.2 billion, up from $1 billion in 2010, according to ComScore.

About 200 customers of the Central Maine Power Company recently noticed something odd after the utility installed smart meters in their homes: in some cases other wireless devices stopped working, or behaved erratically.

The inevitable has happened. Pornographic and violent images, many including gore and abuse, some even photo shopped to look like your friends, appeared on users’ profile pages on Facebook last Monday. While the true numbers and how it happened probably won’t be known for some time, experts in the field of Internet security are calling it a “widespread” spam attack and one of the worst security breaches in social media to date.

As twilight approaches for 2011, security vendors have set their gaze on the rise of Android malware during the year and what is ahead. Last week, Juniper Networks entered the fray, declaring the number of malware samples it observed targeting devices running Google Android had shot up nearly 500 percent since July. Today, McAfee released its threats report for the third quarter of the year, which found that the amount of malware targeting Android devices jumped 37 percent since the...

Our Effectiveness at Controlling Modern Malware will be Tied to our Ability to Adapt and Extend our Security MethodologiesModern malware and advanced attacks are obviously very real and serious threats today. The serial breaches of 2011 provide ample proof of that. However, as often happens when confronting a new challenge, myth and misinformation can creep in the conversation and can make the problem seem insurmountable.

On Thursday, Rep. Mike Rogers, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) had opened an investigation into the threat posed by Chinese-owned telecommunications companies working in the U.S.

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