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Report finds most organizations have suffered financial impact of $500,000 or more from cyberattacks on cyber-physical systems over past year.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: students dox people with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, OT hunting guide for water systems, NVD backlog still significant. 

Google Cloud makes new confidential computing options generally available and expands attestation support.

Inside the collapse of IronNet: Some say the firm collapsed, in part, because it engaged in questionable business practices, produced subpar offerings, and could have been vulnerable to meddling by the Kremlin.

Roundup of the 37 cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals announced in September 2024.

Pixel 9 comes with improved security hardening mitigations against common exploits on cellular basebands.

Russian authorities have arrested 96 individuals suspected of having ties to US-disrupted UAPS and Cryptex cryptocurrency exchanges.

According to a barebones Apple advisory, the new iOS 18.0.1 fixes two bugs that expose passwords and audio snippets to malicious hackers.

The coordinated action resulted in the seizure of more than 100 domains used for spear-phishing targets in the US, UK, and Europe.

CISO salaries are getting higher and experience counts. Average annual compensation for these cybersecurity leaders is more than $550K.

The hack of a police system that exposed contact details of all Dutch police officers was almost certainly carried out by hackers working for a foreign government, the justice minister said.

People on the Move

Defense contractor Nightwing has appointed Tricia Fitzmaurice as Chief Growth Officer.

Xage Security has appointed Russell McGuire as CRO and Ashraf Daqqa as VP of the META region.

Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge has been appointed the CEO of data protection firm Cyber Grant.

Mario Duarte, formerly head of security at Snowflake, has joined Aembit as CISO.

Kevin Mandia has joined Expel’s board of directors and has been named chair of the board at SpecterOps.

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Fall of IronNet Fall of IronNet

Inside the collapse of IronNet: Some say the firm collapsed, in part, because it engaged in questionable business practices, produced subpar offerings, and could have been vulnerable to meddling by the Kremlin.

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CISO salaries are getting higher and experience counts. Average annual compensation for these cybersecurity leaders is more than $550K.

Rackspace Breach Rackspace Breach

A breach at Rackspace exposes the fragility of the software supply chain, triggering a blame game among vendors over an exploited zero-day.

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Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps and 2.14 billion Pps. 

Previously seized LockBit websites have been used to announce more arrests, charges and infrastructure disruptions.

That dream of a decentralized privacy-retaining identity system able to combat AI-driven bots and deepfakes may not be as elusive as feared – courtesy of Tools for Humanity (TfH) and Worldcoin.

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Attendees at the public ICANN meeting in Brussels today heard from over two dozen companies that have implemented or are planning to support DNSSEC, the next-generation standard protocol for secured domain names. It is clearer than ever before that DNSSEC is becoming a reality.

Apple has added a new paragraph to its privacy policy which, depending on your viewpoint, may usher in a new era of amazing convenience and relevance to the mobile experience, or bring society one step closer to an Orwellian future where governments and corporations can track your every move.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC and endpoint security firm Lumension today announced an agreement to embed parts of the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite into Lumension products. The initial goal will be for Lumension to build DLP classification technology and expert RSA DLP policy libraries into future versions of its Device Control product module.

Although more than 80 percent of the respondents to a new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute expressed concern about the security of social media, more than half of these same individuals admitted they do not take any steps to actively protect themselves.

IT security risk and compliance management solutions provider, Qualys, today added a new feature to its QualysGuard Vulnerability Management solution to help customers identify and implement patches to eliminate vulnerabilities in their IT environments.

A survey of IT security professionals, those who should be security conscious, has revealed that over half of respondents (52%), admit to carrying company data on a USB stick with no encryption. The survey also revealed that 11% of the security savvy audience ‘protected’ their devices with passwords only, an insufficient defense that is easily breached.

As cybercrime continues to grow and become more complex, businesses must race to implement tools, technologies and strategies to protect their organizations.Frost & Sullivan cites Cybercrime as the primary driving factor in the growth of the North American Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Market. The firm estimates that managed security service providers generated revenues of $1.20 billion in 2009 and estimates this to reach $3.90 billion in 2016.

PandaLabs, the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security, has reported a new proliferation of scams that highjack the Facebook "Like" option. The attacks use bogus messages that look like they’re from friends, with topics related to the popular game Farmville, the film Sex and the City 2 or simply the keyword “sex.” Unwary Facebook users who click on the links in these messages are taken to a Web page containing photos and videos of the relevant topic.

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Application Security

Application Security

Application security and vulnerability management platform DefectDojo has raised $7 million in Series A funding.

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Report finds most organizations have suffered financial impact of $500,000 or more from cyberattacks on cyber-physical systems over past year.

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