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Identity management provider SGNL has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Brightmind Partners.

Attempts to exploit CVE-2024-0108, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, started one day after disclosure. 

Rapid7 finds a new zero-day vulnerability in PostgreSQL and links it to chain of attacks against a BeyondTrust Remote Support product.

Poland is being targeted by various forms of cyberattacks and sabotage actions believed to be sponsored by Russia.

The Sarcoma ransomware group is threatening to leak data stolen from Taiwanese printed circuit board manufacturer Unimicron.

CyberArk acquires early stage Boston startup Zilla Security for $165M, expanding its identity security and IGA capabilities.

Millions of uninformed users have flocked to DeepSeek and share personal information without considering security or privacy risks.

A toolset associated with China-linked espionage intrusions was employed in a ransomware attack, likely by a single individual.

An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024.

Jscrambler has received a $5.2 million investment from Iberis Capital to accelerate innovation and research.

Palo Alto Networks has published 10 new security advisories, including one for a high-severity firewall authentication bypass vulnerability.

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The US arm of networking giant TP-Link has appointed Adam Robertson as Director of Information and Security.

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.

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Rapid7 finds a new zero-day vulnerability in PostgreSQL and links it to chain of attacks against a BeyondTrust Remote Support product.

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An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024.

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A subgroup of the Russia-linked Seashell Blizzard is tasked with broad initial access operations to sustain long-term persistence.

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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.

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

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

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Solera Networks, a provider of network forensics and network monitoring solutions, announced today that it has closed $15 million in Series C financing. Trident Capital lead the round as a new investor and was also joined by Allegis Capital and Canopy Ventures who were previous investors.

Cisco Global Threat Report - 2Q10For the first time since tracking began in 2007, the number of unique web-based malware hosts and malware URLs didn’t increase, according to Cisco’s Quarterly Global Threat Report just issued for the second quarter of 2010.

App Genome Project Enables Rapid Identification of Bad Applications San Francisco based Smartphone security company, Lookout, today unveiled plans for an initiative to map and study mobile applications in order to identify security threats and provide insight into how applications are tapping into personal data and accessing other phone resources.

Imperva, a California based data security company, this week announced a research initiative focused on providing deeper insight on how cybercriminals conduct large scale cyber attacks as well as shedding light on the evolution of the underground business of cybercrime.

Fifty-six percent of companies that have deployed interactive Web 2.0 applications have taken steps to prevent hacking, and the other 46 percent should, according to a new report released yesterday by InformationWeek Analytics. To make its point, the research firm deployed a sample Web 2.0 employee management application on its web site. The report’s author, Tivo security director Adam Ely, easily hacked it.

Several of the world’s largest ISPs, along with major enterprises, realize the need for a centralized clearing-house capable of alerting the world about major DNS problems

Last week Dell notified customers that certain Dell PowerEdge Server replacement motherboards had been infected with malware. The W32.Spybot worm (originally discovered in 2003) was found in flash storage (NOT firmware) on the motherboard during Dell testing.This issue does not affect systems as shipped from Dell and is limited to replacement motherboards in four servers - Dell PowerEdge R310, PowerEdge R410, PowerEdge R510 and PowerEdge T410.

In a trend that mirrors the invasion of the corporate world in the 1980’s by personal computers, today’s employees are beginning to use consumer-oriented technology like the iPhone and Facebook to do business – and this means stress and trouble for IT security professionals.

IT security firm Sophos this week issued new guidance on a Windows Zero Day vulnerability that is already being used to target critical infrastructure systems, including power grids. Exploit code for what Sophos terms the "CPLINK" vulnerability is widely available. In response to the situation, the SANS Institute has taken the uncommon step of raising its industry Infocon vulnerability alert level.

Microsoft today announced the availability of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) public beta which now available to customers.The successor of Forefront Client Security, FEP 2010 is built on System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2, allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection.

Malware prevention provider FireEye and network forensics company Solera have announced a technology partnership to deliver an integrated security solution that will not only block an attack, but also help IT security professionals figure out exactly what happened after the fact.

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San Francisco application security startup raises $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Menlo Ventures. 

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APIs are easy to develop, simple to implement, and frequently attacked. They are  prime and lucrative targets for cybercriminals. 

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