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Credit reporting agency Equifax announced on Monday that it has named Jamil Farshchi as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
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Continue reading Equifax Hires Former Home Depot Security Chief Jamil Farshchi as CISO
Malware Chewed Up CPU of HMI at Wastewater Facility
Cryptocurrency mining malware worked its way onto four servers connected to an operational technology (OT) network at a wastewater facility in Europe, industrial cybersecurity firm Radiflow told Secur… Continue reading Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hits Monitoring Systems at European Water Utility
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire Wombat Security Technologies for $255 million in cash.
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Newswire service Business Wire said Tuesday that it has been under a sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for almost a week.
The company said that since last Wednesday, January 31, the attack has been attempting to render the new… Continue reading Business Wire Hit by Ongoing DDoS Attack
Technology consulting firm Booz Allen has been awarded a $621 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Dynamic and Evolving Federal Enterprise Network Defen… Continue reading Booz Allen Hamilton Awarded $621 Million DHS Cyber Contract
RELX Group, a provider of b2b Information and analytics services, announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire fraud detection firm ThreatMetrix for £580 million (approximately $815 million) in cash.
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Continue reading RELX Group to Acquire Fraud Fighting Firm ThreatMetrix for $815 Million
Sqrrl, a Cambridge, Mass.-based big data analytics startup that is commercializing NSA technology to help organizations detect threats lurking in their infrastructure, has been acquired by Amazon.
The company announced Tuesday that it has been acquired… Continue reading Amazon Acquires Threat Hunting Firm Sqrrl
Intel on Monday said that users should stop deploying patches for the “Spectre” and “Meltdown” chip vulnerabilities disclosed by researchers earlier this month, saying the patches could cause problems in affected devices, including higher than expected… Continue reading Intel Halts Spectre, Meltdown CPU Patches Over Unstable Code
Anomali, a security technology firm that offers a SaaS-based threat intelligence platform, today announced that it has raised $40 million in series D funding.
The additional funding brings the total amount raised to-date by the company to $96 mil… Continue reading Threat Intelligence Tech Firm Anomali Raises $40 Million