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The deal is the third acquisition the Israeli cybersecurity firm has made in the past year.
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The flaw can be exploited to gain unauthorized access, and in certain conditions, cause the company’s firewalls to crash.
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In a joint statement, agencies say both presidential parties have been targeted by Iran.
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Matthew Knoot allegedly ran a laptop farm that funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars back to North Korea.
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The flaw, called ‘0.0.0.0 day,’ has to do with how browsers handle network requests.
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Amid a rash of ransomware attacks, the Senate Intelligence Committee wants to treat the phenomenon like terrorism.
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President Donald Trump issued two executive orders Thursday that will ban making transactions with Chinese tech companies ByteDance and Tencent as of Sept. 20. The two companies own widely popular applications — ByteDance owns video-sharing app TikTok, while Tencent operates messaging service WeChat — that have been characterized as national security threats. Trump has expressed particular concern over TikTok in the last week, telling reporters over the weekend that he was looking to ban the app in the United States. In the executive order, Trump says TikTok allows the Chinese government to capture vast swaths of data from U.S. citizens, censor content it deems politically sensitive, and use it for disinformation campaigns. “The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security,” the order reads. TikTok is wildly popular, having been downloaded more than 2 billion times worldwide, including 165 million times in […]
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Chip giant Intel is investigating the leak of what appears to be a 20 GB cache of internal documents, some of which are marked “confidential,” after it appeared on various messaging platforms and data hosting sites. An Intel spokesperson told CyberScoop that the data looks to be from the company’s Resource and Design Center, which hosts information for customers, partners and other external parties that have access. “We believe an individual with access downloaded and shared this data,” a spokesperson told CyberScoop. The cache, dubbed “Intel exconfidential Lake,” is mostly comprised of training manuals and other technical documents for various software and firmware development kits. However, a section marked “Intel Restricted Secret” contains data on a March 2020 version of Intel’s 2016 Kaby Lake Platforms Silicon Initialization Code, which works with Intel BIOS. A post in a Telegram channel highlighted some of the other contents in the cache: It is […]
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The Department of Health and Human Services was the target of an attempted cyberattack, a source with knowledge of the matter tells CyberScoop. HHS saw an increase in traffic against its systems as the department continues to respond to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Signs pointed, at most, to a failed distributed denial-of-service attack, a source told CyberScoop. Bloomberg News was first to report on the incident. The attempted attack does not appear to have taken any systems offline. A source told Bloomberg that no data appears to have been stolen. The Department of Homeland Security is looking into the matter, a source told CyberScoop. The National Security Agency referred questions to HHS and DHS. HHS did not return requests for comment. News of the attack comes as the National Security Council tweeted Sunday that rumors spreading online about a nationally-mandated quarantine are false. It is unclear if the tweet is related to the incident at […]
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Duo Security CEO Dug Song kept it simple Tuesday when he described the last decade in cybersecurity. “It sucked,” Song told the crowd at the Zero Trust Security Summit presented by Duo and produced by FedScoop and CyberScoop. The next decade doesn’t have to be that way, he says, because the technology ecosystem has the tools it needs to make security as seamless and easy to use as possible. Architectures like zero trust can become more commonplace, giving enterprises simple ways to protect themselves against the most familiar threats. At the core, it’s about ensuring that users and devices are connecting only with the data that they need. In a sit-down with CyberScoop on the sidelines of the summit, Song talked about the evolution of zero trust, how the cybersecurity market is changing, and how cybersecurity can be better woven into campaign operations. The title of the event is the Zero Trust Security Summit. “Zero trust” […]
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