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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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A new report coming from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reveals that phishing attacks against Chinese banking and e-commerce Web sites soared by 44 percent in the first half of 2011. According to the report, 70 percent of all maliciously registered domain names in the world were established by Chinese cybercriminals for use against Chinese brands and enterprises.

Apple security guru Charlie Miller said he has uncovered a bug in Apple iOS that allows an attacker to circumvent Apple’s code signing approach.According to Miller, who is principal research consultant with Accuvant Labs and a veteran of the Apple bug-finding world, the vulnerability could spell trouble for iOS users if exploited.

Millions of people in Brazil have potentially been exposed to malware as a result of a nationwide DNS attack. Additionally, several organizations in Brazil are reporting that network devices are also under attack. After being compromised remotely, scores of routers and modems had their DNS settings altered to redirect traffic. Police have arrested a 27-year-old ISP employee who is suspected to have taken part in the attacks.

McAfee today announced a round of enhancements to its Cloud Security Platform, the company’s offering to help organizations take advantage of cloud computing in a secure fashion.The McAfee Cloud Security Platform is a content-aware solution that secures the primary channels of traffic including email, web and authentication – moving between an organization and the Cloud.

A compromised server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been identified as being used as a vulnerability scanner and attack tool, probing the Web for unprotected domains and injecting code. According to researchers at Bitdefender who discovered the attack, the ongoing attacks appear to be related to the Blackhole Exploit Pack, a popular crime kit used by criminals online.

Yammer, the high flying software company that lets companies create their own private Twitter-like networks, this week announced that it has hired Josha Bronson as director of securityBased in the company's headquarters in San Francisco, Bronson will be responsible for the overall security testing, compliance and governance issues.

I recently found two great security articles from 2000 from a well-respected Microsoft security guru, Scott Culp. Culp provided two sets of Immutable Laws of Security - one on the consumer side, and the other on the admin side.

A few months ago, I was at a round table luncheon with a few senior-level security and IT folks. I casually asked them what they were doing to secure their Web applications. They replied with full confidence, “We have SSL.” When I described, in detail, how hackers attack via Web applications, and how SSL doesn’t protect them against those attacks, they were shocked. I can understand that small website owners might not have an in-depth knowledge of security issues. But,...

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