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Cybersecurity Startup 'Deep Instinct' Raises $43M
- Saturday, 15 February 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Deep Instinct, a startup with a cybersecurity system that uses artificial intelligence-based deep learning, has garnered $43 million in venture-capital funding. So reports TechCrunch.
Read more...Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Cybersecurity Warnings
- Saturday, 15 February 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Cybersecurity researchers have warned that hackers are exploiting worries about the spread of the coronavirus to attack industries reliant on global shipping. So reports The Hill.
Read more...Ashley Madison Data Breach Fuels 'Sextortion' Scams 5 Years Later
- Thursday, 06 February 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Ashley Madison subscribers are becoming the targets of a new type of heist five years after the affair-dating website’s 2015 data breach. So reports CNBC.
Read more...Bank of Japan Warns of Tokyo Olympics Cyber-attack Risks
- Thursday, 06 February 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Japan’s central bank has warned the nation’s financial institutions to take steps against hacking before this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games. So reports Reuters.
Read more...Iowa’s troubled Caucus App was Vulnerable to Hacking, Too
- Thursday, 06 February 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
The smartphone app that officials blamed for delaying the results of the Iowa Democratic caucuses also suffered from basic cybersecurity flaws. So reports ProPublica.
Read more...House Cybersecurity Bill Advances from Committee
- Thursday, 30 January 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Proposed legislation that would hand subpoena power to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency is heading to the full House of Representatives for a vote. So reports The Hill.
Read more...LabCorp Suffers Another Patient Data Leak
- Thursday, 30 January 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
A security flaw exposing patient data has been identified in LabCorp’s website only months after the company said that 7.7 million patients had been hit by a third-party vendor’s credit card data breach. That breach also affected Quest Diagnostics and other laboratory testing companies. So reports TechCrunch.
Read more...Software Group Snuffs Out Reports of Marijuana User Database Breach
- Thursday, 30 January 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
The software company singled out for a data leak that might have affected more than 30,000 medical marijuana users nationwide has said that patients probably don’t need to feel paranoid. So reports WHIO TV7.
Read more...'Sextortion' Scam Tells Nest Owners They’re Being Recorded
- Saturday, 25 January 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
An increasingly common form of scam involves telling people they’ve been recorded on their home security camera and then demanding a ransom. So reports CNBC.
Read more...McAfee Names Peter Leav as New CEO
- Saturday, 25 January 2020
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- Written by Security Tech Brief Staff
Cybersecurity company McAfee has appointed Peter Leav, who formerly led BMC Software, as its new CEO. So reports Reuters.
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