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Kmart Attacked by Hackers Again

Kmart suffered another data breach when its server was attacked by hackers.  “Our Kmart store payment data systems were infected with a form of malicious code that was undetectable by current...

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IoT Security

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seeing the rapid rise but it seems to repeat the history of technology evolution. The pace of growth is not matched with security requirements. IoT helps automation as...

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Content to Prevent Data Breach

Egnyte a Calif. based content collaboration and governance specialist has launched a new cloud-based solution which looks after insider threat. The product focus on IT security professionals. Nowadays...

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AI Security Company Series D Round

Darktrace U.K.-based startup which has offices in San Francisco has recently raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. Nicole Eagan, CEO at Darktrace, mentioned that Insight Venture Partners’...

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Breach at Hotel Chains

The Trump, Four Seasons, Loews and Hard Rock hotel chains notified customer due to massive breach of Sabre’s SynXis reservations system. Earlier, Google also notified its employees that their personal...

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Series A round for Security Startup

The San Francisco-based cyber security startup Insight Engines recently raised $15.8 million in a Series A round of financing for its threat intelligence gathering tool Splunk also known as called...

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New additions to Qualys

As per the new announcement, Qualys is upgrading its Software-as-a-Service cloud platform. It now provides customers with new cloud security and SSL/TLS certificate security abilities. “CloudView a is...

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Data Breach at Swedish Citizens’ Data Points

Unscreened third-party IT workers were provided full access to the information of vehicles including police and military by the Swedish Transport Agency. Management of the operations were outsourced to...

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Breach at Italy’s Biggest Bank

The leading bank in Italy, UniCredit mentioned that approximately 400,000 of its customers’ data were affected after third party provider was hacked. The name of the third party is withheld. It is one...

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Cyber Insurance and Cloud Cyber Attacks

According to the insurer Lloyd’s, a large cyber attack could cause $53 billion in economic losses which is almost same estimation as per 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. The report mentions the two...

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IoT Security Bill

This week the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 was introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. The rules sets minimum conditions and requirements for the security of...

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Qualys CEO mentions that WannaCry a “Godsend” for his Business

Security vendor Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot mentioned that the WannaCry ransomware and the planned General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are “godsends” that will help the company to grow further....

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Ukraine’s Postal Service Hit

Ukraine’s national postal service website Ukrposhta was hit by DDoS attacks for two days. The facility mentioned that it was able to start the service after the first-day attack. On the second day, the...

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IoT Security

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seeing the rapid rise but it seems to repeat the history of technology evolution. The pace of growth is not matched with security requirements. IoT helps automation as...

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Ukraine’s Postal Service Hit

Ukraine’s national postal service website Ukrposhta was hit by DDoS attacks for two days. The facility mentioned that it was able to start the service after the first day attack. On the second day, the...

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Staff Shortage for Cyber Security

The findings of recent Tripwire survey of 108 people at Black Hat USA 2017 has below findings- Eighty-five percent of cyber security pros mentioned that they need more people Eighty four percent...

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Data Breach at Tewksbury Hospital

Tewksbury Hospital which is based in Massachusetts recently found out that there was unauthorized EHR access. The incident may have potentially led to a data breach. As per the statement by a former...

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Current State of IOT

As per the recent reports, a list of IP addresses and login credentials for more than 8,000 telnet-accessible Internet of Things (IoT) devices was posted on Pastebin. GDI Foundation chairman Victor...

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Forcepoint Acquires RedOwl

RedOwl is acquired by Forcepoint to bolster user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA) capabilities. Forcepoint, formerly Websense is cyber security software. It stops malware, attacks and other...

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New additions to Qualys

As per the new announcement, Qualys is upgrading its Software-as-a-Service cloud platform. It now provides customers with new cloud security and SSL/TLS certificate security abilities. “CloudView a is...

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