In Other News: macOS Security Reports, Keyboard Spying, VPN Vulnerabilities
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Northern Ireland’s Top Police Officer Apologizes for ‘Industrial Scale’ Data Breach
Northern Ireland’s top police officer apologized Thursday for what he described as an “industrial scale” data breach in which the personal information of more than…
Microsoft Discloses Codesys Flaws Allowing Shutdown of Industrial Operations, Spying
Over a dozen vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft researchers in Codesys products can be exploited to cause disruption to industrial processes or deploy backdoors that allow…
Black Hat USA 2023 – Announcements Summary
Hundreds of companies and organizations showcased their cybersecurity products and services this week at the 2023 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.…
India Passes Data Protection Legislation in Parliament. Critics Fear Privacy Violation
Indian lawmakers Wednesday approved a data protection legislation that “seeks to better regulate big tech firms and penalize companies for data breaches” as several groups…
MoustachedBouncer: Foreign Embassies in Belarus Likely Targeted via ISPs
Foreign embassies in Belarus have been targeted by a cyberespionage group that appears to leverage adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques through internet service providers (ISPs) in the…
Check Point to Acquire SASE Security Firm Perimeter 81 for $490 Million
Network security giant Check Point Software (NASDAQ: CHKP) on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Zero Trust Network Access…
Managing and Securing Distributed Cloud Environments
Recently, on my morning jog, I saw a garbage truck making the rounds. This may sound like an odd way to open a security article, though,…
Symmetry Systems Raises $17.7M for Data Security Posture Management Platform
Symmetry Systems has raised $17.7 million in an insider funding round that brings the total raised by the data security company to more than $35…
European Startup Pistachio Raises €3.25 Million for Cybersecurity Training Platform
Norway-based startup Pistachio on Thursday announced raising €3.25 million (roughly $3.5 million) for its AI-driven cybersecurity training platform. The Pistachio platform leverages AI to create…
CISA Warns Organizations of Exploited Vulnerability Affecting .NET, Visual Studio
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a zero-day flaw affecting Microsoft’s .NET and Visual Studio products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
White House Offers Prize Money for Hacker-Thwarting AI
The White House on Wednesday launched a competition offering millions of dollars in prize money for creating new artificial intelligence systems that can defend critical…