Former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan Found Guilty Over Breach Cover-Up

A San Francisco jury on Wednesday found former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan guilty of covering up a 2016 data breach and concealing information on a felony from law enforcement.
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KKR Boosts NetSPI Stake with $410 Million Investment

Private equity giant KKR is expanding its big bet on penetration testing and attack surface management firm NetSPI with a new $410 million investment round.
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LayerX Raises $7.5M Seed Funding to Tackle Secure Web Browsing

Israeli startup LayerX has joined the list of companies scoring investor interest in the tricky enterprise browser market.
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What’s Going on With Cybersecurity VC Investments?

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North Korean Gov Hackers Caught Rigging Legit Software

Threat hunters at Microsoft have intercepted a notorious North Korean government hacking group lacing legitimate open source software with custom malware capable of data theft, espionage, financial gain and network destruction.
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Investors Bet on Ox Security to Guard Software Supply Chains

The funding frenzy in the software supply chain space now includes Ox Security, an early-stage Israeli startup that just raised a whopping $34 million in seed-stage financing.
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Researchers Crowdsourcing Effort to Identify Mysterious Metador APT

Cybersecurity sleuths at SentinelLabs are calling on the wider threat hunting community to help decipher a new mysterious malware campaign hitting telcos, ISPs and universities in the Middle East and Africa.
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Ukraine Says Russia Planning ‘Massive Cyberattacks’ on Critical Infrastructure

The Ukrainian government says it is bracing to deal with “massive cyberattacks” from Russian hackers against critical infrastructure targets in the energy sector.
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CrowdStrike to Buy Reposify, Invests in Salt Security

Endpoint detection and response pioneer CrowdStrike is elbowing its way into new security markets with a planned acquisition of attack surface management startup Reposify and a strategic investment in API security vendor Salt Security.
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Uber Confirms Hacker Accessed Internal Tools, Bug Bounty Dashboard

Ride-hailing giant Uber is moving quickly to downplay the impact from a devastating security breach that included the theft of employee credentials, access to the HackerOne bug bounty dashboard and data from an internal invoicing tool.
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