Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider eSentire has acquired AI cybersecurity startup Versive, which specializes in advanced threat detection and automation with its platform. Apart from these, there has been changes made at the senior leadership levels with the...
A recent research from cybersecurity firm McAfee exposed an active phishing campaign that turns Android devices into mobile proxies. The McAfee mobile research team stated that the phishing attack was performed by sending a malicious code, named as Android/TimpDoor,...
Kaspersky: A new research from Kaspersky Lab has found that 84 percent of CISOs in North America now believe cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, with financially motivated groups being their primary concern. The findings also show a lack of influence in the boardroom, making...
In one of the biggest lawsuit settlements in the United States history, Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $50 million in restitution to settle a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2013. Altaba, formerly Yahoo, has also agreed...
Cybersecurity think tank and company creation platform Team8 recently announced that it has raised $85 million investment to create eight cybersecurity startups. The investment round was led by Walmart, Airbus, SoftBank, Moody’s, Dimension Data, Munich Re, and Scotiabank along...
Contributed by Carolyn Crandall, Chief Deception Officer, Attivo Networks
Many will advocate that the cybersecurity battle is fought at the endpoint. Completely secure these devices and the attacker will not be able to advance their attack. This belief has fueled a...
A research expert from the security firm Zimperium recently pointed several vulnerabilities in a number of IoT (Internet of Things) operating systems, including FreeRTOS from AWS. Ori Karliner, the researcher from zLabs, came across 13 flaws in the FreeRTOS...
The United States government’s health insurance system HealthCare.gov recently suffered a data breach that resulted in the theft of thousands of patients’ records.
According to the official statement, unknown attackers breached the government portal’s sign-up system named Federally Facilitated Exchanges...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States of America recently released the updated draft of premarket guidance for medical device cybersecurity. The draft comprises new recommendations for internet-connected medical device manufacturers on how to assess cybersecurity...
Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a former software product development manager at Equifax, was sentenced to serve eight months home imprisonment over insider trading charges related to Equifax’s data breach last year.
According to the U.S. Justice Department, Sudhakar was penalized by...
