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Cyber risk management solutions provider Bitsight is acquiring threat intelligence firm Cybersixgill for $115 million.

Security researcher investigated Microsoft Power Pages installations and found several with misconfigurations allowing unintentional access to confidential data.

Two Nigerian nationals, one in Mexico and one in North Dakota, have been charged for hacking into the systems of US tax preparation companies.

CISA and the FBI have confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to spy on specific targets.

Robert Purbeck was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing the personal information of over 132,000 people.

The exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows is executed by deleting files, drag-and-dropping them, or right clicking on them.

NIST says all known exploited CVEs in the backlog have been addressed, but admitted that clearing the entire backlog by October was optimistic.

Cybereason Chairman & CEO Eric Gan believes the merger could help its existing success in some international markets.

Exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2024-10914, a recently disclosed ‘won’t fix’ vulnerability affecting outdated D-Link NAS devices. 

Google Cloud will be assigning CVE identifiers to serious cloud vulnerabilities, even ones that don’t require patching.

Most of the top frequently exploited vulnerabilities in 2023 were initially exploited as zero-days, according to data from government agencies.

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Secure enterprise browser provider Menlo Security has appointed Bill Robbins as President.

Erik Rolf has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) of Commercial Sector.

Gant Redmon has joined Trustle as its new Chief Executive Officer and Board Director.

Application security firm Black Duck has appointed Sean Forkan as Chief Revenue Officer.

Jared Bartel has been named CISO at Idaho State University.

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Cybersecurity incident impacts Giant Food, Hannaford, and other Ahold Delhaize USA brands, including pharmacies and e-commerce services.

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In its latest financial report, Halliburton said the recent cybersecurity incident has so far cost the company $35 million.

CISA has added a Palo Alto Networks Expedition flaw tracked as CVE-2024-5910 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

North Korean cryptocurrency thieves caught targeting macOS with fake PDF applications, backdoors and new persistence tactics.

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Snoop Dogg and Norton Announce 'Hack is Wack' Video Contest To Raise Cybercrime Awareness Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses?

Wyse Technology today announced an expanded strategy involving thin and zero client computing, desktop virtualization, unified communications, and mobile access to virtual environments. Wyse will work with key partners including Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and others, along with its resellers, to deploy what the company characterizes as “a broader set of options for government, business and education.”

HP Launches CloudStart to Fast Track Customers to Private Clouds HP wants to take customers on a flight to the private cloud – and get them there quickly. HP says that with its HP CloudStart solution, it can deploy an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days.

.LNK Exploits - Shortcuts to InsecurityThe vulnerability in Windows Shell’s parsing of .LNK (shortcut) files presents some interesting and novel features in terms of its media lifecycle as well as its evolution from zero-day to patched vulnerability. For most of us, the vulnerability first came to light in the context of Win32/Stuxnet, malware that in itself presents some notable quirks.

Fake TweetDeck Updates Being Spread via Hacked Twitter AccountsCybercriminals are using hacked/compromised Twitter accounts to spread malicious links pointing to a fake update to TweetDeck, a popular client used to access Twitter.Some of the messages (tweets) that users may see include ones such as:• Hurry up for tweetdeck update!• Update TweetDeck! Bank Holiday• Critical tweetdeck update Bank Holiday• Sorry for offtopic, but it is a critical TweetDeck update. It won't work tomorrow!

Enterprise Data Loss Continues at Alarming RateA plethora of social media tools, increasing adoption of mobile devices being used for business, and the economic downturn are posing serious challenges for organizations looking to keep confidential company and customer data within company walls.Email leads the way as the number one method confidential company information is leaked in large enterprises, while social media tools and mobile devices are becoming a major threat, according to a recent study.

NETGEAR today announced the introduction of a new Unified Threat Management appliance that integrates with Microsoft Active Directory to provide single sign-on. While focused on businesses with fewer than 100 employees, the new appliance, dubbed the ProSecure® UTM50, has been optimized for larger businesses and built with scalability in mind.

CA Technologies Acquires Arcot Systems for $200 Million in CashThe security space is hot folks! The acquisitions of security related companies continues this morning with CA Technologies announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arcot Systems, Inc., a provider of authentication and fraud prevention solutions. CA will pay $200 million in cash for the privately-held company.

Undersecretary of Defense William J. Lynn has published an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine redefining the United States’ stance towards cyberwarfare, and he’s already getting shot at – primarily by IT pundits who find it hard to believe that the incident which led to the Pentagon’s recognizing cyberspace as a new “domain of warfare” could have really happened as described.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that security and compliance solutions firm ArcSight Inc., is putting itself up for sale.Bidders reportedly include Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., EMC Co., IBM Corp., and CA Inc. ArcSight could fetch $1.5 billion, according to the WSJ.

Workers denied access to certain websites at work are not afraid to voice their frustrations, a new survey shows.According to a recent survey, forty percent of chief information officers (CIOs) interviewed said that it's at least somewhat common for employees to complain about security measures that limit which websites or networks they can visit at the office.

3PAR Accepts Dell’s Increased Price of $27 Per Share, with Total Value of $1.8 Billion Update: 9/2/2010 3Par Accepts HP's $2.4 Billion Bid, Dell Walks Away with $73 MillionUpdate: 10:27AM - HP raised its offer to $30 per share or $1.88 Billion

DNSSEC - The root is signed with DNSSEC. So what does this mean? Can we all relax? Is the Internet secure now?In July, ICANN, VeriSign and the NTIA generated and published the cryptographic keys used to sign the domain name system's root zone. This so-called "trust anchor" will eventually be relied upon by the entire DNS and used to protect billions of Internet users against several types of online attack, bringing a new foundation of security to the Internet's fundamental...

In 2010, 25 percent of new worms have been specifically designed to spread through USB storage devices when connected to computers.These types of threats can copy themselves to any device capable of storing information such as cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, flash memories and MP3/4 players.

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