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IBM will invest more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue its American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.

Palo Alto Networks is acquiring AI security company Protect AI in a deal previously estimated at $650-700 million.

Zero-trust network security solutions provider NetFoundry has raised $12 million in funding from SYN Ventures.

This tension between hard-edged risk realism and breathless AI evangelism sets an unmistakable tone for a bellwether conference where 40,000-plus gather to do business. 

San Francisco identity security play Veza closes a Series D fund round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

Threat actors have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Craft CMS to execute PHP code on hundreds of websites.

VeriSource Services says the personal information of 4 million people was compromised in a February 2024 cyberattack.

Planet Technology industrial switches and network management products are affected by several critical vulnerabilities. 

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

MTN Group says the personal information of certain customers was compromised in a cybersecurity incident.

Oregon’s environmental agency won’t say if a group of hackers stole data in a cyberattack that was first announced earlier this month.

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Madhu Gottumukkala has been named Deputy Director of the cybersecurity agency CISA.

Wendi Whitmore has taken the role of Chief Security Intelligence Officer at Palo Alto Networks.

Phil Venables, former CISO of Google Cloud, has joined Ballistic Ventures as a Venture Partner.

David Currie, former CISO of Nubank and Klarna, has been appointed CEO of Vaultree.

Chris Burger has been named Chief Information Security Officer at F5.

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This tension between hard-edged risk realism and breathless AI evangelism sets an unmistakable tone for a bellwether conference where 40,000-plus gather to do business. 

RSA Conference 2025 RSA Conference 2025

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

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A zero-day vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver potentially affects more than 10,000 internet-facing applications.

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Yale New Haven Health System recently discovered that the personal information of millions of patients was stolen from its systems.

British retailer Marks & Spencer has been experiencing certain service disruptions after falling victim to a cyberattack.

SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom company, disclosed a data leak involving a malware infection.

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"Mariposa botnet" - Butterfly botnet kit Author Arrested“Iserdo,” the confirmed author of the Butterfly botnet kit, was arrested recently in Maribor, Slovenia, by Slovenian authorities working with the FBI. The 23-year-old master hacker known only by his Internet handle is allegedly the mastermind behind the code used to build the Mariposa botnet, which has compromised millions of systems worldwide. He is currently free on bail.

Microsoft this week announced an agreement to collaborate with Adobe systems and facilitate advanced information sharing on vulnerabilities via its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), which Adobe will join. MAPP is a collaborative effort involving 65 global members that facilitates the sharing of product vulnerabilities with security software providers. Adobe will join the program in the fall of this year.

The presentation "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines" was originally on the schedule at Black Hat USA 2009 but the talk was pulled at the last minute. This year it was on! Videos of Barnaby Jack demonstrating both local and remote attacks and a multi-platform ATM rootkit.Barnaby Jack Hacks ATMs Remotely At Black Hat

The presentation "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines" was originally on the schedule at Black Hat USA 2009 but the talk was pulled at the last minute. This year it was on! and... it just happened today. We are in the process of uploading VIDEOS of the ATM hacking demonstration but the pipes are a little slow from Vegas today. In the meantime, here are a few photos. Check back later tonight and we'll have the actual videos of Barnaby Jack demonstrating...

CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that its identity and access management (IAM) technology now supports the Google Apps™ suite, which includes the familiar and widely-used Gmail and Google Docs applications. This means that companies can now use the same identity/access management system for both internal and external (Google) applications.

A shocking 87 percent of the victims in a study of data breaches jointly conducted by Verizon and the U.S. Secret Service had evidence of the breach in their log files, yet missed it. According to the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 60 percent of breaches were discovered by external parties, and then only after a considerable amount of time.Most breaches were considered avoidable if security basics had been followed Only 4 percent of breaches assessed required difficult and...

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.

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