PE Firm to Buy Application Security Specialist Checkmarx at $1.15 Billion Valuation
Checkmarx, a provider of tools for testing source code for security issues, announced on Monday that private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (“H&F”) has...
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U.S. Senators Seek to Ban TikTok on Government Devices
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) this week introduced a bill aimed at banning the use of the China-made TikTok application...
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Firefox 74 Patches Vulnerabilities, Disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Mozilla this week released Firefox 74 to the stable channel with several security improvements, including patches, a new add-ons policy, improved privacy, and versions...
Google Launches Free Fuzzer Benchmarking Service
Google this week announced the launch of FuzzBench, a free and open source service for evaluating fuzzers. The fully automated service was designed to...
Framework Isolates Libraries in Firefox to Improve Security
A group of researchers has built a sandbox framework that can improve the security of Firefox by isolating third-party libraries used by the browser....
MIT Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Voatz Voting App
Vulnerabilities in the Voatz Internet voting app could allow adversaries to alter, stop, or expose a user’s vote, security researchers from the Massachusetts Institute...
Microsoft Brings Safe Documents, Application Guard to More 365 ProPlus Users
Microsoft this week announced that Safe Documents and Application Guard, two security capabilities introduced last fall, are now available to more of its Office...
Google Shared Private Videos With Wrong Users
A bug in the Google Takeout download service has resulted in some users’ videos being inadvertently shared with other people. The issue was revealed...
F5 to Acquire Shape Security for $1 Billion in Cash
F5 Networks announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire privately held Shape Security for approximately $1 billion in cash. Shape was founded...
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U.S. Coast Guard Issues Cybersecurity Warnings for Commercial Vessels
The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday issued a safety alert advising commercial vessel owners and operators to ensure that effective cybersecurity measures are in...