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If you're curious about the original decentralized cryptocurrency, here's what you need to know about Bitcoin, including why the price of a bitcoin keeps climbing. Is it worth investing in bitcoins? What are the security risks of using Bitcoin? And just what is the blockchain? The answers to all of these questions and more are in this Bitcoin cheat sheet.
Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of its Windows 10 Defender antivirus, now comes with support for blocking cryptojacking malware using Intel's silicon-based Threat Detection Technology. Intel TDT is part of the Hardware Shield's suite of capabilities available on Intel vPro and Intel Core platforms, providing endpoint detection and response capabilities for advanced memory scanning, cryptojacking, and ransomware detection via CPU-based heuristics.
Apple's iCloud Mail service is suffering an outage since this morning, preventing some people from sending and receiving emails. Starting this morning at 7:13 AM EST, iCloud Mail users began reporting that they were having difficulty sending or receiving an email to their accounts.
Proofpoint has become the latest sizable tech vendor to succumb to private equity after Thoma Bravo succeeded in its $12.3bn grasp for the infosec giant. CEO Gary Steele said now was the time for Proofpoint, which IPOed in 2012, to return to private ownership.
iPhone users with AirDrop enabled may unknowingly expose certain personal information to a complete stranger. In a report released last week, researchers at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Darmstadt in Germany revealed their discovery of a security hole in Apple's AirDrop.
The FBI, the US Department of Homeland Security, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned today of continued attacks coordinated by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service against US and foreign organizations. With access to the administrative account, the actors modified permissions of specific e-mail accounts on the network, allowing any authenticated network user to read those accounts.
Oilfield services company Gyrodata last week revealed that it was recently targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in sensitive employee information being compromised. Houston, Texas-based Gyrodata provides surveying and wireline services for oil and gas, mining, and civil engineering projects.
Enterprise security vendor Proofpoint has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in an all-cash transaction that values Proofpoint at approximately $12.3 billion. As part of the deal, Proofpoint will exit the public markets and become a private company within Thoma Bravo's growing stable of enterprise cybersecurity companies.
IoT device security startup Thistle Technologies launched last week with $2.5 million in seed funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures. Thistle Technologies was founded in October 2020 by Window Snyder, who over the past two decades held security leadership positions at Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, Fastly, Intel and Square.
UK consumer watchdog Which? has found that ad giants Google and Facebook are failing to remove online scam ads even after victims report them. A third of those reporting scam ads to Google found the same offending ads still present, while the figure was a quarter for antisocial media site Facebook.