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E-commerce fraud prevention company Forter announced on Thursday that it has achieved "Unicorn" status after raising $125 million in a Series E funding round. The platform leverages predictive fraud research and modeling, as well as a global data network to identify attempts of payment card fraud, identity theft and account takeover.

Group-IB has presented its new solution for digital identity protection and fraud prevention Fraud Hunting Platform. Fraud Hunting Platform becomes an integrated solution that will play a key role in protecting users.

Palo Alto Networks introduced Enterprise Data Loss Prevention-a cloud-delivered service that brings a fresh, simple and modern approach to data protection, privacy and compliance. "Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the existing legacy and point solutions are not accessible, appropriate or effective for many of the companies that need them," said Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager, Firewall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.

The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. Currently, researches indicate that mobile banking apps are often not as secure as expected.

It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity. "It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself, but today that's exactly what we allege Adam Rogas did," Sweeney said in a statement.

The founder and CEO of NS8, a cyber fraud prevention and protection company, has been charged with fraud just months after the firm raised $123 million in funding, the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced on Thursday. The DoJ said Adam Rogas, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was arrested and charged with securities fraud, fraud in the offer and sale of securities, and wire fraud.

One new security technology we keep hearing about is Extended Detection and Response. This new technology merges multiple prevention and detection technologies on a single platform to better understand threat signals so that you don't need to purchase, integrate, and manage various control and integration technologies.

Contact-tracing applications require employers to collect all kinds of employee health data that they never had to worry about before - temperatures, health symptoms and travel history, for example - and they aren't sure how to use and protect this data in a way that balances health and safety with privacy. To help get you started on the right path, here is a 10-point plan for securing PII, including new employee health data collected through COVID-19 contact-tracing applications and other healthcare tracking systems.

Microsoft this week announced Kernel Data Protection, new technology that aims to protect the Windows kernel and drivers from data corruption attacks. KDP builds upon the technology included by default in Secured-core PCs and adds another layer of protection for configuration data.

CBTS has announced the integration of cloud-delivered threat prevention into its CBTS Network Security as a Service. The CBTS partnership with Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. enables CBTS to unify Check Point's industry-leading CloudGuard cloud-native security with highly customized CBTS SD-WAN solutions supporting the rapid shift to distributed application architecture and flexible work from anywhere policies.