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On Wednesday, September 4, 2019, ransomware was discovered at Flagstaff Unified School District, Arizona. Schools were closed on Thursday and Friday of that week, but re-opened after the weekend. No ransom was paid, and only two days schooling was lost… Continue reading Arizona Schools Provide Model for Managing Ransomware
Shape Security has raised a further $51 million in Series F growth funding, valuing the company at $1 billion. The total capital raised to date is now $183 million
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Continue reading Shape Security Raises $51 Million at $1 Billion Valuation
The attack traffic recorded by F-Secure’s global network of honeypots tripled from the last six months of 2018 to the first six months of 2019. In H2 2018, the network recorded 813 million attacks. In H1 2019, that figure leapt to 2.98 billion attacks…. Continue reading Attack Traffic Caught by Honeypots Triples Over Six Months
Funding Will Help Company Expand DevOps and Workload Security Offerings for Cloud, Container, and Hybrid Environments
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Continue reading Cloud Security Firm Lacework Raises $42 Million
The FBI has published upgraded figures from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) describing business email compromise (BEC) as a $26 billion scam. The figure is aggregated from 166,349 domestic and international victim complaints received by IC3 b… Continue reading Loss to BEC Fraud Now Claimed to be $26 Billion
A recent survey has shown that software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is the most disruptive of the current crop of disruptive technologies. An August 2019 survey found that SD-WAN disruption is affecting companies of all sizes, although at a grea… Continue reading SD-WAN: Disruptive Technology That Requires Careful Security Consideration
Threat intelligence sharing and cyber fusion firm Cyware has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Emerald Development Managers. The money will be used to develop the firm’s national and international presence, and enhance existing products.
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A small fine of $20,000 in Sweden highlights a potential problem for the use of biometrics in security throughout Europe, including American firms with offices in Europe.
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Continue reading Swedish GDPR Fine Highlights Legal Challenges in Use of Biometrics
Tide Foundation Creating Marketplace Where PII Can be Safely Sold
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Continue reading “Splintering” Makes Hacking Passwords 14 Million Percent Harder
An SMS phishing attack against many modern Android phones could route all internet traffic through a proxy controlled by the attacker. The problem lies in weak (sometimes non-existent) authentication for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning.
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Continue reading Vulnerability in Network Provisioning Affects Majority of All Android Phones