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In the Security News, Paul and Michael discuss SolarWinds acquiring LOGGLY (undisclosed), Verizon acquires Niddel, Cyxtera Technologies acquires Immunity (undisclosed), and Arctic Wolf raised $16M in Equity! All that and more on this episode of Busines… Continue reading SolarWinds, Verizon, Cyxtera, and Arctic Wolf – Business Security Weekly #69
Apple told a university professor his app “has no direct benefits to the user.” Continue reading Apple Is Blocking an App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations From the App Store
Telecom companies scrapping plans to sell Huawei phones reeks of hysteria and protectionism. Continue reading There’s No Public Evidence Huawei Spies on Americans, But the Company Is Getting Blackballed Anyway
Verizon acquired automated threat hunting startup Niddel, according to a company release issued Friday. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Founded in 2014, Niddel offers a platform called Magnet that relies on machine learning, removing the need for human analysts to write code or process data in order to stop threats. Founded by three computer scientists with Brazilian backgrounds, the company was awarded a U.S. patent for “Systems and methods for classifying malicious network events” in 2016. “Verizon is the perfect partner to accelerate our long-term vision of delivering automation and intelligence solutions through machine learning to more organizations throughout the world,” said Niddel CEO Felipe Boucas. “Using machine learning to improve information accuracy significantly reduces false positives and significantly improves our detection and response capabilities,” said Alexander Schlager, Verizon’s executive director for security services, in a release. Verizon has long offered a wide array of cybersecurity services, […]
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This year saw a handful of spectacularly bad security fails that resulted in massive sets of compromised data. Here are the most colossal data breaches of 2017.
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While the tech world was left spinning in late 2016 when it was discovered that Yahoo suffered a massive breach, Verizon stayed calm. In the 72 hours immediately following the disclosure, the telecommunications giant which was moving to acquire Yahoo, reportedly made no snap judgments or assumptions, said Craig Silliman, Verizon’s EVP of Public Policy and General Counsel. After aligning their strategic interests with Yahoo, Silliman said that his first question was to ask about “the effect on the reason [Verizon] was buying this asset in the first place.” “We bought Yahoo for user and user engagement,” he said at the Wall Street Journal’s Cybersecurity Executive Forum in New York Wednesday. “So when you have a breach on the user, how that company reacts is important.” Silliman said he spent countless hours talking to C-suite level executives from both Verizon and Yahoo in the wake of the breach. During and […]
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Ajit Pai and telecom lobbyists keep repeating the lie that net neutrality is holding back telemedicine. Continue reading FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People
wyattstorch516 writes: Real competition may finally be on the way for the residential broadband market. Verizon will be the first company to introduce 5G wireless broadband in a select number of cities. This will give residential customers an alternati… Continue reading Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018
A Florida-based credit repair company left 111 gigabytes of extremely sensitive customer information and internal company data publicly accessible on the internet possibly for up to two years. The National Credit Federation publicly exposed 47,000 files that included customer names, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, credit reports, financial histories, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, according to Chris Vickery, a researcher at the cybersecurity firm UpGuard. File upload dates suggest the public exposure extends back to June 2015. Vickery discovered the data after finding an Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket used by the company was configured for public access. NCF’s exposure is the latest in a string of organizations leaving sensitive data accessible by the public via an S3 instance. There have been similar incidents impacting the National Security Agency, Department of Defense, Viacom and Verizon, all of which have been discovered by Vickery “This wasn’t secure whatsoever,” Vickery said of […]
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The agency doesn’t have the same kind of teeth for defending an open internet. Continue reading We Can’t Rely on the FTC to Defend Net Neutrality