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Private Israeli firm NSO Group has denied media reports its Pegasus software is linked to the mass surveillance of journalists and rights defenders, and insisted that all sales of its technology are approved by Israel's defence ministry. NSO spokesman Oded Hershkovitz told Israel's Army Radio the list of phone numbers was "Not connected" to NSO, but rather to other companies and open-source software.
Virginia Tech says it was targeted in two recent cyberattacks but feels confident no data was stolen. Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski told the Roanoke Times Friday a few university units used Kaseya, a U.S. software company exploited in early July in a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world.
Of course, investing in new technology to improve security always involves some expense. Security teams have to keep pace to provide an effective defense with integrated tools that automate processes and enable streamlined collaboration.
Tech Mahindra has announced collaboration with enterprises, academicians, and industry advisors to constitute a 'Cloud Advisory Board'. The cloud advisory board will work towards accelerating cloud transformation and build a robust roadmap for business agility and competitive edge for enterprises.
The central promise of the CURES Act is its information blocking ban, which prohibits health information providers from restricting patients' access to their EHRs. Health information providers may be required to send patients their data when they request it, but the CURES Act isn't the only law on their minds.
Everbridge announced a partnership with Tech Data, an IT distribution and solutions aggregator serving more than 125,000 partners, globally. The partnership helps enterprises and other organizations automate the response to, and build resilience against, critical events, from cyber-attacks and IT outages to severe weather events and more, while opening new routes to market for Everbridge.
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke to Ning Wang, CEO of Offensive Security, about what it takes to become a cybersecurity professional. Karen Roby: The unfortunate reality, Ning, and I know you've been in the tech world for a long time now, and have worked with so many different kinds of people, and I think that's the interesting thing is that you don't have to have a tech background in order to be successful in cybersecurity.
French prosecutors have charged a French IT company that allegedly helped the regime of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi spy on opposition figures who were later detained and tortured, sources close to the inquiry said Thursday. Amesys, which is now owned by the Bull technology group, and its former chief, Philippe Vannier, were charged with complicity in acts of torture on June 18, the sources said.
Jeremiah Grossman's Bit Discovery has banked another $4 million in venture capital funding to compete in the crowded attack surface management space. Bit Discovery has raised a total of $6.6 million to build and sell an attack surface management tool to help security programs to identify and manage Internet-connected assets.
Google will delay by nearly two years the phase out of Chrome web browser technology that tracks users for ad purposes, saying that it needs more time to develop a replacement system. The tech giant on Thursday moved its deadline to remove so-called third-party cookies to late 2023 rather than January 2022 as was initially planned.