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A settlement has been reached in the class action brought by investors against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica incident, but details have not been shared.

Virtual event brings together leading experts, practitioners, and innovators for a full day of insightful discussions and tactical guidance on evolving threats and real-world defense strategies in cloud security.

Cybersecurity startup Empirical Security has raised $12 million in seed funding for its vulnerability management platform. 

Karen Serobovich Vardanyan pleaded not guilty to charges related to his alleged role in the Ryuk ransomware operation.

Deployed on mobile devices confiscated by Chinese law enforcement, Massistant can collect user information, files, and location.

An $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

Four CVEs disclosed at the Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competition have been patched in VMware products.

Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in Cisco ISE that leads to remote code execution (RCE).

Oracle’s July 2025 Critical Patch Update contains 309 security patches that address approximately 200 unique CVEs.

More than 1,000 suspects were arrested in raids in at least five provinces between Monday and Wednesday, according to Information Minister Neth Pheaktra and police.

Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called NoName057(16) group, which was identified as being behind a series of DDoS attacks on municipalities and organizations linked to a NATO summit.

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Kenna Security co-founder Ed Bellis has joined Empirical Security as Chief Executive Officer.

Robert Shaker II has joined application security firm ActiveState as Chief Product and Technology Officer.

MorganFranklin Cyber has promoted Nick Stallone and Ferdinand Hamada into newly created roles.

Jessica Newman has joined Sophos as General Manager of Global Cyber Insurance.

Breach and attack simulation solutions provider AttackIQ has appointed Pete Luban as Field Chief Information Security Officer.

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Oracle’s July 2025 Critical Patch Update contains 309 security patches that address approximately 200 unique CVEs.

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Cyberattack disrupted UNFI’s operations in June; company estimates $50–$60 million net income hit but anticipates insurance will cover most losses.

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Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon targeted a National Guard unit’s network and tapped into communications with other units.

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DragonForce says it stole more than 150 gigabytes of data from US department store chain Belk in a May cyberattack.

A vulnerability affecting systems named End-of-Train and Head-of-Train can be exploited by hackers to cause trains to brake. 

Louis Vuitton customers in the UK, South Korea, Turkey and possibly other countries are being notified of a data breach.

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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.

AVG Technologies, developers of some of the world’s most popular and free anti-virus software for Windows, today announced an offering for Mac lovers. AVG LinkScanner for Mac is a free AVG product designed for the Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems. It supports the Safari 3.x, Safari 4.x and Safari 5.x internet browsers as well as Mozilla Firefox 3.x and higher.

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RevEng.ai has raised $4.15 million in seed funding for an AI platform that automatically detects malicious code and vulnerabilities in software.

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