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Security and compliance automation firm Drata has acquired trust center platform SafeBase in a quarter billion dollar deal.

Ivanti and Fortinet on Tuesday released patches for multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities in their products.

A new GAO report assesses that the Coast Guard needs to improve Maritime Transportation System (MTS) cybersecurity.

Chipmakers Intel, AMD and Nvidia on Tuesday published new security advisories to inform customers about vulnerabilities found in their products. 

A fresh post on the Kraken ransomware group’s leak website refers to data stolen in a 2022 cyberattack, Cisco says.

Industrial giants Schneider Electric and Siemens have released February 2025 Patch Tuesday ICS security advisories.

On the eve of the Munich Security Conference, Google argues that the cybercriminal threat should be treated as a national security threat like state-backed hacking groups.

The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited Windows zero-days.

Patch Tuesday: Adobe patches 45 vulnerabilities across multiple products and warns of remote code execution exploitation risks.

Russia-based bulletproof hosting services provider Zservers was sanctioned for providing services to support LockBit ransomware operations.

OpenSSL has patched CVE-2024-12797, a high-severity vulnerability found by Apple that can allow man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Cyber exposure management firm Armis has promoted Alex Mosher to President.

Software giant Atlassian has named David Cross as its new CISO.

Dan Pagel has been named the new CEO of risk management and remediation firm Brinqa.

The City of Phoenix has promoted Mitch Kohlbecker to the role of Chief Information Security Officer.

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

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The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited Windows zero-days.

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Intel says roughly 100 of the 374 vulnerabilities it patched last year were firmware and hardware security defects.

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Cupertino’s security response team said the flaw was used in “an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” 

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News analysis: The big AI platforms are emerging as frontline early warning systems, detecting nation-state hackers at the outset of their campaigns. Can this help save the threat intel industry?

SolarWinds will become a privately held company following its acquisition by Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion in cash. 

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

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"The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people’s lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, commenting on the latest release of confidential documents by WikiLeaks.

INSIDE Contactless, a provider semiconductor solutions for mobile devices, secure transactions and digital identity, today introduced SecuRead, a system-in-package (SIP) near field communication (NFC) solution that helps manufacturers of NFC mobile and other devices to integrate all of the contactless, security and application functions required for a broad range of NFC payment, retail, transit, ID and access control applications.

iovation, a provider of online fraud detection solutions, announced today that its suite of anti-fraud solutions would be available in Japan through a partnership with Tokyo-based Info Innovation Japan, Inc. Info Innovation Japan will exclusively represent iovation’s solutions to online communities, retailers, online gaming, financial services and payment service providers.

Trend Micro announced today is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor, a provider of data protection solutions.Mobile Armor's data protection offerings provide full-disk, file/folder, and removable media encryption for endpoints. They will complement Trend Micro's existing data loss prevention, email encryption and cloud encryption products.

WikiLeaks Under DDoS Attack Around Time of Expected Massive Release of State Department DocumentsWikiLeaks has reported that its Web site is currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack. The whistleblower Web site posted an update via Twitter early Sunday afternoon.

Apparently the leaked photos from TSA “full body scanners” aren’t the only things that have been leaked lately. A trusted source tipped us off and was able to send along some "in action” photos taken from an undisclosed domestic airport, showing TSA Officers as they did their jobs to help keep America safe.

Register.com and Baidu announced that they have settled their litigation as a results of a cyber-attack in January 2010 on Baidu.com when Register.Com granted access to Baidu’s DNS controls to hackers without properly performing security checks.Baidu is the No. 1 search engine in China and currently has $38 Billion market cap on the NASDAQ.Register.com issued the following statement:

Companies to Combine Marketing and Technology Resources to Assist in Brand Protection Document Security Systems, a Rochester, NY based provider of document security solutions, and Eastman Kodak have announced a partnership in which they will provide applications to will enable a broad range of industries and governments to combat the increasingly damaging effects of counterfeiting and brand fraud.What types of documents and items really need such protection? A lot.

Trouble Ahead - The Implementation Challenges for DNSSECThere has been a lot of recent buzz surrounding implementation of Domain Name System Security extensions (i.e., DNSSEC). The latest example: verification and signing of DNSSEC for the .IN (India) and .ASIA top-level domains (TLDs), which are being pitched as major enhancements to global security for much of Asia.

Startup Says its ASL Protocol Fixes Fundamental Flaws with SSL Operating in stealth mode for the better part of five years, Toronto, Canada based Federated Networks, an Internet security software firm that launched in September at the DEMO Conference, received some validation and a vote of confidence that the company is on track with its initiatives to protect users from some of the most pervasive threat vectors.

Varonis Systems, a provider of data governance software, today announced it has extended its DatAdvantage for UNIX now supports AIX servers, allowing AIX system administrators the ability to perform automated data access and usage audits, fix and maintain access controls, identify sensitive data and find data owners.

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