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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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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.

It was a shocking discovery that had security experts around the world concerned. In 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky exposed a serious flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) that allowed cyber criminals to easily impersonate websites, intercept email, or steal passwords to hack into corporate networks via DNS cache poisoning attacks.

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