Security News > 2021
Veriff, a provider of automated identity verification technology, today announced that it has secured $69 million in Series B financing, bringing the total amount raised by the company to $92.8 million. Led by investment firms IVP and Accel, the company says the Series B funding will be used to support growth in the U.S. and development of its ID verification offerings.
British AI-powered infosec biz Darktrace is to go public in England's capital city, the company told the London Stock Exchange this morning. "The majority of senior management has been with Darktrace since inception, including its Chief Executive Officer, Poppy Gustafsson OBE" boasted the filing as it quoted the chief exec saying: "Developed by our talented software engineering teams in Cambridge, our artificial intelligence was the first on the market to be deployed at-scale in the enterprise, and today is responsible for protecting over 4,700 organizations worldwide from the most sophisticated cyber-threats."
Data security is a tough topic to summarize and I'd argue it may be the most misunderstood category in security right now. "What are we doing to protect our customers' and the organization's data?" If the many, many public breaches have told us anything over the years, it's that losing data escalates a "Security incident" into a "Data breach".
President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber jobs in his administration, the White House said Monday in moving to fill out a team whose role has grown more urgent after two major hacks that have consumed the government's attention. Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director.
Users worldwide cannot connect to Pulse Secure VPN devices after a code signing certificate used to digitally sign and verify software components has expired. As employees return from the weekend, network admins have been reporting [1, 2, 3, 4] that users cannot connect to Pulse Secure VPN devices and access internal company resources.
Iran blamed Israel on Monday for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges, an assault that imperils ongoing talks over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal and brings a shadow war between the two countries into the light. "My policy as prime minister of Israel is clear: I will never allow Iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating Israel," Netanyahu said.
DuckDuckGo has launched a new browser extension for Chrome that will prevent FLoC, a new tracking technique used by Google to support web advertising without identifying users. Privacy browser DuckDuckGo has launched a new extension for Chrome that's designed to block Google's new algorithm for tracking users' browsing activity for ad selection.
Both companies provide a wide range of IT solutions, including cybersecurity. Dynamic Quest, a managed services provider specializing in IT and cloud services for enterprises, acquired Integrated Solutions, an Alabama-based MSP focusing on enterprise IT, cybersecurity and disaster recovery services.
These bots grab some of the limited stock of the PS5 and Xbox on eBay and Amazon and then resell them at huge markups, says PerimeterX. Scalper bots, or sneaker bots, have been chewing up supplies of the Sony PS5 and Xbox consoles amid a shortage of both units, leaving indvidual buyers in a lurch. In a report published Thursday, bot fighter PerimeterX described the damage that automated bots are causing to consumers and retailers alike.
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he was more worried about the risk of a large-scale cyberattack than another financial crisis like that of 2008. The risks of a 2008-like crisis with a need for government bailouts of banks were "Very, very low," the head of the US central bank said during an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "60 minutes."