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Led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from existing investors including Upfront Ventures, the new capital will be used to accelerate Open Raven's growth through expansion of key functions including engineering, customer support, sales and marketing. "Unlike legacy solutions like DLP and CASB, Open Raven solves for modern complexity with a platform purpose-built for the massive data exposure issue."
A woman accused of setting fire to two Philadelphia police cars during a May 30 protest was tracked down by her online buying-habits and reviews, a social media sweep, and a poor username choice, the FBI has claimed. In an affidavit spotted by Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, FBI Special Agent Joseph Carpenter details the data trail that led agents to Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 33.
In a report released Wednesday, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 sheds new light onto attacks against the popular open-source virtualization software VirtualBox that used the AcidBox malware. The Turla Group malware, researchers said, also targeted a second DSE vulnerability tied to a signed VirtualBox driver using what would later be identified as AcidBox malware.
England's Premier League is returning this week, with millions of soccer fans around the world looking to stream matches using their online video accounts. The NCSC has in the past flagged the hazards of scoring a cyber own-goal via poor password hygiene: Using easy-to-guess passwords or reusing passwords across online accounts is a continued issue, it said.
Zoom today said it will make end-to-end encryption available to all of its users, regardless of whether they pay for it or not. We note that Google Meet and other rival services do not offer E2EE. "Today, Zoom released an updated E2EE design on GitHub," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said.
Just how vulnerable are you if you do use weak or popular passwords? New research from password manager Nordpass shows just how quickly a hacker can crack a popular password. Around 70% of the world's most popular passwords can be cracked in less than a second, according to Nordpass.
It's actually an investment company that wants to make online gaming more fair for players by funding early-stage gaming startups that incorporate blockchain technology in the nascent blockchain gaming industry. The idea, said Craig Russo, the company's director of innovation, is to broaden the appeal and growth of online gaming by giving players tools that allow them to keep those purchases or migrate them for use in other games without having to buy them again.
Zoom is doing the right thing: it's making end-to-end encryption available to all users, paid and unpaid. We have identified a path forward that balances the legitimate right of all users to privacy and the safety of users on our platform.
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday unveiled a new firewall powered by machine learning, a firewall for Kubernetes, and an IoT security solution. Palo Alto Networks has announced a new next-generation firewall that uses machine learning to help organizations detect and block threats.
A fresh variant of the Shlayer Mac OSX malware with advanced stealth capabilities has been spotted in the wild, actively using poisoned Google search results in order to find its victims. "Unlike typical Windows PCs, there is no obvious right-side button on Apple mice and trackpads. Therefore, novice Mac users may not know how to do the Mac equivalent of a right-click, and therefore may not understand how to run the malware installer script."