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Marco Raquan Honesty has pleaded guilty to his roles in several fraud schemes, including smishing, identity theft, and bank account takeover.

Social media security startup Spikerz has raised $7 million in a seed funding round led by Disruptive AI.

Kaspersky has disclosed the details of over a dozen vulnerabilities discovered in a Mercedes-Benz MBUX infotainment system. 

The FCC adopts declaratory ruling requiring telecommunications providers to secure their networks against nation-states and other threats.

CISA and the FBI have updated their guidance regarding risky software security bad practices based on feedback received from the public.

HPE is investigating claims by the hacker IntelBroker, who is offering to sell source code and other data allegedly stolen from the tech giant.

TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban.

The Treasury Department announced sanctions in connection with a massive Chinese hack of American telecommunications companies and a breach of its own computer network.

TikTok said it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless Biden assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown after the Supreme Court upheld the ban.

CISA and other agencies call to action for the US government to take steps to close the software understanding gap.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: several multi-million dollar settlements, CrowdStrike-themed phishing emails, and MITRE launches D3FEND 1.0.

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Karl Triebes has joined Ivanti as Chief Product Officer.

Steven Hernandez has joined USAID as CISO and Deputy CIO.

Data security and privacy firm Protegrity has named Michael Howard as its CEO.

Anand Ramanathan has been appointed as Chief Product Officer at Deepwatch.

Managed security platform provider Deepwatch has appointed Sammie Walker as CMO.

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In 2024 organizations informed the US government about 720 healthcare data breaches affecting a total of 186 million user records.

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Jen Easterly hopes CISA is allowed to continue its election-related work under new leadership despite “contentiousness” around that part of its mission.

Fortinet patches critical vulnerabilities, including a zero-day that has been exploited in the wild since at least November 2024. 

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday rollout includes fixes for 160 security defects, the largest number of CVEs addressed in any single month since at least 2017.

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From interacting on social network sites, to disabling company installed security software so they can access restricted Web sites, most employees were more focused on individual concerns and conveniences than their company's overall IT security, according to the 2010 Trend Micro survey on corporate and small business end users.

On demand IT security risk and compliance solutions provider, Qualys, and RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), have expanded their technology partnership to make QualysGuard vulnerability management and IT policy compliance data available to RSA’s client base.

Top 10 Malware Threats for AprilSunbelt Software has announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of April 2010. With nine of ten detections from March still on the list for April, it shows continued prevalence of Trojan horse programs circulating on the Internet. A new loader for a rogue security product making it into the top 10.

IT security and data protection firm Sophos announced that it has reached an agreement to sell a majority interest in the company to private equity group Apax Partners. The transaction will value the company at $830 million. Following the transaction, the founders of Sophos will retain a significant minority shareholding.

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CISA and the FBI have updated their guidance regarding risky software security bad practices based on feedback received from the public.

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