FireEye Acquires Respond Software, Gets $400 Million Investment Led by Blackstone
FireEye on Thursday announced a $400 million strategic investment led by investment giant Blackstone, which the company says will be used to support growth...
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Chinese Hackers Target Japanese Organizations in Large-Scale Campaign
China-linked threat actor APT10 was observed launching a large-scale campaign against Japanese organizations and their subsidiaries. Also referred to as Cicada, Stone Panda, and...
E-Commerce Fraud Prevention Firm Forter Raises $125M at $1.3B Valuation
Forter Becomes Unicorn After $125 Million Series E Funding Round E-commerce fraud prevention company Forter announced on Thursday that it has achieved “unicorn” status...
Cybersecurity Workforce Study Needs to be Taken with a Pinch of Salt
The global cybersecurity workforce has increased by 700,000 to 3.5 million (while the shortfall has decreased by 950,000 to 3.12 million); and companies have...
Google Launches Strong Encryption for Android Messages
Google said Thursday it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption for Android users, making it harder for anyone — including law enforcement — to...
Workshop Today: Threat Hunting With VirusTotal – Black Belt Edition
For more than 10 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity...
Google Asks Chrome Extensions to Post Privacy Policies
Google this week announced an update to its Chrome store policies that requires all extensions to be explicit about the collection and use of...
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in Drupal
Updates released on Wednesday for the Drupal content management system (CMS) patch a remote code execution vulnerability related to failure to properly sanitize the...
Mozilla Boosts Security in Firefox With HTTPS-Only Mode
Firefox 83 has been released to the stable channel with a new feature meant to improve the security of its users, namely HTTPS-Only Mode....
Study Finds New Employees Immediately Given Access to Millions of Files
A new report demonstrates that the size of the problem for financial services created by the COVID-related switch to remote working can only be...