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Feb
2020
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Symantec Participates in Latest MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation
Detection and prevention are crucial for confronting advanced threats
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Feb
2020
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2020
This month the vendor has patched 99 vulnerabilities, 13 of which are rated Critical.
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Feb
2020
Safer Internet Day 2020: Less than half of parents completely trust their child’s behavior online
Parents are recognizing the importance of talking to their children about their online activity, but less than half say they ‘completely trust’ what they get up to, according to new research released today from AVG Online Security.
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Feb
2020
Matters of Life and Death: Cyber Security and Medical Devices
Concerns about the vulnerabilities of medical devices to cyber attacks are spurring a new focus on the need to protect patient safety, data and hospital systems
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Feb
2020
Geopolitical Tensions May Increase Risk of Destructive Attacks
Organizations should exercise heightened vigilance as political tensions in the Middle East may increase risk of attacks by Iranian-sponsored groups.
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Feb
2020
Microsoft will now pay up to $20k for Xbox Live security exploits
Think you’ve found a glaring security hole in Xbox Live? Microsoft is interested. The company announced a new bug bounty program today, focused specifically on its Xbox Live network and services. Depending on how serious the exploit is and how complete your report is, they’re paying up to $20,000. Like most bug bounty programs, Microsoft […]
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Jan
2020
Amazon quietly publishes its latest transparency report
Just as Amazon was basking in the news of a massive earnings win, the tech giant quietly published — as it always does — its latest transparency report, revealing a slight dip in the number of government demands for user data. It’s a rarely seen decline in the number of demands received by a tech […]
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Jan
2020
Ring’s new security ‘control center’ isn’t nearly enough
On the same day that a Mississippi family is suing Amazon -owned smart camera maker Ring for not doing enough to prevent hackers from spying on their kids, the company has rolled out its previously announced “control center,” which it hopes will make you forget about its verifiably “awful” security practices. In a blog post […]
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Jan
2020
Social media boosting service exposed thousands of Instagram passwords
A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase a user’s Instagram followers, has exposed thousands of Instagram account passwords. The company, Social Captain, says it helps thousands of users to grow their Instagram follower counts by connecting their accounts to its platform. Users are asked to enter their Instagram username […]
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Jan
2020
Indian airline SpiceJet confirms breach of 1.2 million passenger details
SpiceJet, one of India’s largest privately owned airlines, has confirmed a data breach involving the details of over a million of its passengers. The security researcher, who described their actions as “ethical hacking” but whom we are not naming as they likely ran afoul of U.S. computer hacking laws, gained access to one of SpiceJet’s […]
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Jan
2020
Avast shuts down marketing analytics subsidiary Jumpshot amid controversy over selling user data
Avast has made a huge business out of selling antivirus protection for computers and mobile devices, but more recently it was revealed that the Czech-based cybersecurity specialist was also cultivating another, more controversial, revenue stream: harvesting and selling on user data, some of which it amassed by way of those security tools. But as of […]
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Jan
2020
Verkada raises $80M at $1.6B to be every building’s security OS
50 iPads were stolen from Verkada co-founder Hans Robertson’s old company. Only when they checked the security system did they realize the video cameras hadn’t been working for months. He was pissed. “The market lagged behind the progress seen in the consumer space, where someone could buy high-end cameras with cloud-based software to protect their […]
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Jan
2020
Dept. of Interior grounds its drones amid cybersecurity concerns
The U.S. Department of the Interior has confirmed it has grounded its fleet of non-emergency drones amid concerns over cybersecurity. In a brief statement, the department said the move will help to ensure that “the technology used for these operations is such that it will not compromise our national security interests.” Interior spokesperson Carol Danko […]
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Jan
2020
Essential advice for securing your small startup
Jeff Bezos’ phone was hacked. And if the richest person in the world is vulnerable, chances are good that your startup could get hacked, too. The good news is that, as a tiny company, you’re not a big target. But as soon as you hire your first employee, it’s time to think about adopting basic […]
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Jan
2020
Essential advice for securing your small startup
Jeff Bezos’ phone was hacked. And if the richest person in the world is vulnerable, chances are good that your startup could get hacked, too. The good news is that, as a tiny company, you’re not a big target. But as soon as you hire your first employee, it’s time to think about adopting basic […]
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Jan
2020
A Christian-friendly payments processor spilled 6 million transaction records online
A little-known payments processor, which bills itself as a Christian-friendly company that does “not process credit card transactions for morally objectionable businesses,” left a database containing years’ worth of customer payment transactions online. The database contained 6.7 million records since 2013, and was updating by the day. But the database was not protected with a […]
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Jan
2020
LabCorp website bug exposed thousands of medical documents
A security flaw in LabCorp’s website exposed thousands of medical documents, like test results containing sensitive health data. It’s the second incident in the past year after LabCorp said in June that 7.7 million patients had been affected by a credit card data breach of a third-party payments processor. The breach also hit several other […]
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Jan
2020
UK will allow Huawei to supply 5G — with ‘tight restrictions’
The UK government will allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to play a limited role in supplying the country’s 5G networks, it has been announced today. The government said the package of restrictions being announced on “high risk” 5G vendors will allow it to “mitigate the potential risk posed by the supply chain and to combat […]
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Jan
2020
An adult sexting site exposed thousands of models’ passports and driver’s licenses
A popular sexting website has exposed thousands of photo IDs belonging to models and sex workers who earn commissions from the site. SextPanther, an Arizona-based adult site, stored over 11,000 identity documents on an exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage bucket, including passports, driver’s licenses, and Social Security numbers, without a password. The company says […]
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Jan
2020
Daily Crunch: Saudis probably hacked Bezos’ phone
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. UN calls for investigation after Saudis linked to Bezos phone hack United Nations experts are calling for an investigation after a […]
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Jan
2020
Daily Crunch: Saudis probably hacked Bezos’ phone
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. UN calls for investigation after Saudis linked to Bezos phone hack United Nations experts are calling for an investigation after a […]
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Jan
2020
Should tech giants slam the encryption door on the government?
Reuters reported yesterday, citing six sources familiar with the matter, that the FBI pressured Apple into dropping a feature that would allow users to encrypt iPhone backups stored in Apple’s cloud. The decision to abandon plans to end-to-end encrypt iCloud-stored backups was reportedly made about two years ago. The feature, if rolled out, would have […]
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Jan
2020
UN report says malware built by NSO Group ‘most likely’ used in Bezos phone hack
A new United Nations report says a mobile hacking tool built by mobile spyware maker, the NSO Group, was “most likely” used to hack into the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ phone. The report, published by U.N. human rights experts on Wednesday, said the Israeli-based spyware maker likely used its Pegasus mobile spyware to exfiltrate gigabytes […]
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Jan
2020
Octarine releases open source security scanning tools for Kubernetes
Octarine, a startup that helps automate security of Kubernetes workloads, released an open source scanning tool today. The tool, which is called KubeScan, is designed to help developers understand the level of security risk in their Kubernetes clusters. The company is also open sourcing a second tool called KCSS, which is the underlying configuration framework […]
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Jan
2020
Thundra announces $4M Series A to secure and troubleshoot serverless workloads
Thundra, an early stage serverless tooling startup, announced a $4 million Series A today led by Battery Ventures. The company spun out from OpsGenie after it was sold to Atlassian for $295 million in 2018. York IE, Scale X Ventures and Opsgenie founder Berkay Mollamustafaoglu also participated in the round. Battery’s Neeraj Agarwal is joining […]
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Jan
2020
Intezer raises $15M for its DNA-style ‘genetic’ approach to identifying and tracking malware code
As the total cost of cybercrime reaches into trillions of dollars and continues to rise, a firm called Intezer — which has built a way to analyse, identify and eradicate malware by way of an ordering system similar to what’s used when mapping out DNA — has raised $15 million to double down on growth. The funding, […]
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Jan
2020
Snyk snags $150M investment as its valuation surpasses $1B
Snyk, the company that wants to help developers secure their code in a modern context, announced a $150 million investment today. The company indicated the investment brings the company valuation to over $1 billion (although it did not share the exact figure). Today’s round was led by Stripes, a New York City investment firm with […]
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Jan
2020
Israel’s cybersecurity startup scene spawned new entrants in 2019
Yoav Leitersdorf Contributor Share on Twitter Yoav Leitersdorf is the Silicon Valley-based Managing Partner at YL Ventures, where he accelerates cybersecurity startups in the U.S. market. More posts by this contributor A look back at the Israeli cyber security industry in 2018 Trends in Israel’s cybersecurity investments Ofer Schreiber Contributor Share on Twitter Ofer Schreiber […]
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Jan
2020
Increase in Emotet Spam Observed, Blocked by Symantec
As Emotet activity increased, Symantec blocked as many as 1 million Emotet spam emails per day
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Jan
2020
TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019
Facebook spying on teens, Twitter accounts hijacked by terrorists, and sexual abuse imagery found on Bing and Giphy were amongst the ugly truths revealed by TechCrunch’s investigating reporting in 2019. The tech industry needs more watchdogs than ever as its size enlargens the impact of safety failures and the abuse of power. Whether through malice, […]
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Jan
2020
Microsoft says it will fix an Internet Explorer security bug under active attack
Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is currently being used by hackers, but that it has no immediate plans to fix. In a late-evening tweet, US-CERT, the division of Homeland Security tasked with reporting on major security flaws, tweeted a link to a security advisory detailing the bug, describing it as “being […]
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Jan
2020
Behind the Broadcom-Accenture Deal of Cyber Security Services (CSS)
Focusing on the Future
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Jan
2020
Symantec and Bay Dynamics: Two Tech Leaders Under One Roof
The investment in Symantec Enterprise Division continues
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Jan
2020
The Truth About Email/Web Security
As new threats unfold in 2020, you’ll need both the right strategy and the right set of tools as part of a comprehensive, multi-layered to security
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Jan
2020