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Equifax on Friday announced plans to shell out $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that sells e-commerce retail fraud protection.
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Red Hat on Thursday snapped up container and Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a deal that speeds up its ambitions in the enterprise cloud market.
Financial terms of the deal were not announced.
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Lacework, a five-year-old cybersecurity company that automates security across enterprise cloud deployments, has reached unicorn status with the closing of a $525 million round of Series D financing.
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The U.S. government has released a plan with a list of top-priority items to mitigate threats and provide security to the crucial maritime sector.
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Cloud-delivered network security startup iboss on Tuesday announced the closing of a new $145 million financing deal to speed up growth in a lucrative market.
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Business communications platform Slack is scrambling to recover from an ongoing outage that is proving disruptive to cybersecurity response teams around the world.
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Fraud and bot-detection specialists White Ops has been acquired by the Goldman Sachs merchant banking division in partnership with investment firms ClearSky Security and NightDragon.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Google has blamed a bug in its global authentication system for last week’s outage that affected Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Meet and multiple other Google services.
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Continue reading Google Issues Post Mortem on Gmail, YouTube Outage
Security researchers at IBM Corp. and Dragos Inc. are warning that the industrial control systems that power manufacturing plants and utilities are prime targets for ransomware attackers.
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Continue reading Industrial Control Systems Ripe Targets for Ransomware